Name Orion Owner N/A Length 44 m | Name Tullan Acquired 1949 Beam 7.3 m | |
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Launched 1945 for shipowner A. Wingren in Oskarshamn on the Swedish east coast | ||
Introduction
Earl of Pembroke is a wooden, three masted barque, currently used for maritime festivals, charters, charity fund raising, corporate entertaining and film work.
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The current rig has been designed and built to resemble the famous HMS Endeavour on board of which Captain Cook discovered Australia. It is known that the Endeavour used to be called 'Earl of Pembroke' in the days when she worked as a coal trader in the West Country.
Earl of Pembroke as we know her today has been built with festivals and film work in mind. Her three masted rig and the interrupted decks create a beautiful and unforgettable silhouette of a classic sailing ship. There is no superstructure or wheelhouse to interrupt the lines. What goes with it she only needs minimal work to get a perfect, period correct aerial or side shot. With a little bit more effort she can be made to look like an old Spanish Galleon or steam-sailing ship from the age of the Arctic expeditions.
She is a truly magnificent vessel built as a real, working wooden sailing boat and maintained in that way to preserve her natural character and beauty.
Early work
She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as "Orion" in 1945. The ship was used to haul timber in the Baltic Sea until 1974, when she was laid up in Thisted, Denmark. She was brought over to the UK in 1980 and the full restoration began in 1985. As part of the restoration, the rig was changed from the original Schooner to her current Barque type, and she was renamed "The Earl of Pembroke".
Current work
As soon as the work to 'bring her back from the dead' was completed and the new rig was up Earl of Pembroke quickly become producers' favourite vessel. Both small and big screen movie makers proved very interested in the versatility and attractiveness of the ship.
It is not surprising that she also proved very popular amongst the organisers of many maritime festivals around the UK and Europe.
Below are listed some of the festivals and events in which Earl of Pembroke took (alphabetical order):
Film and television career
Earl of Pembroke was used in the following films: