Operaships
| Suomen Joutsen | Sigyn |
Tyyppi/Typ/Type | Fullrigger | Three-masted barque |
Year | 1902 | 1887 |
Shipyard | St. Nazaire, France | Göteborg, Sweden |
Length, m | 96 | 45,5 |
Width, m | 12,3 | 9 |
Depth, m | 7 | 3,80 |
Weight, t | 3100 | 350 |
Sail area,m2 | 2800 | 1000 |
Material | Steel | Wood |
Suomen Joutsen:
Laënnec (1902 - 1922)
- named after the French physician and inventor of the stethoscope, René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec
- Captains: Monsieur Turbé, Achille Guriec and Emile Delanoë
- 15 trips from Europe to South and North America and Australia (see list) carrying cement, wheat, coal, saltpetre and manganese
Oldenburg (1922 - 1930)
- named after the town of the same name
- training ship of the German Navy, since 1928 freighter owned by a shipping company in Hamburg
- Captains: Dietrich Ballehr, Otto Lehmberg and J.H. Volquardsen
- 8 trips (see list), carrying saltpetre and guano from South America
Suomen Joutsen (1930 -)
- named after the Finska Svan, a Swedish warship in the naval battle of Bornholm (7.7.1565)
- training ship of the Finnish state 1931 - 1939, 8 trips (see list)
- Captains: Arvo Lieto, Arvo Konkola, and Unto Voionmaa; 656 cadets and a total of 1,012 persons on the trips
- 6 training and PR trips in the Baltic 1949 - 1951
- Captains: Arno Lapinjousi and Alpo Lamminen
- 1960: towed to Turku; moored at the eastern bank of the River Aura
- 1960 - 1988: used for training some 3,700 seamen and women
- 1991: handed over by the Ministry of Education to the City of Turku as a public museum; 1999: placed under the Forum Marinum
- 2002: centenary; permanently moored at the Forum Marinum
Sigyn
- last wooden three-master merchant sailing ship in the world
- name taken from Norse mythology: Sigyn was the gentle, self-sacrificing wife of the evil god Loki; he turns up in Wagner's Ring as Loge in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre
- 1887: built in Gothenburg, Sweden to carry timber
- sailed under the Swedish flag and carrying cargo in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia until the First World War; longest voyage to Thailand; trips to the Indian Ocean and across the Atlantic
- 1913: shipwrecked and no longer seaworthy: repaired and re-rigged as a barquentine to save costs
- 1939: purchased by the Åbo Akademi Foundation as a museum ship; home port Turku
- 1993: Museum Ship Sigyn Foundation established by the City of Turku and the Åbo Akademi Foundation
- 1994: floating dock called Loke (husband of Sigyn in Norse mythology) built to facilitate preservation of the ship
- 1998 - 2001: repaired in Mariehamn and re-rigged as a barque
- 2001: placed under the Forum Marinum; home port on the River Aura, Varvintori quay
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