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Sir Winston Churchill (schooner)

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Name
  
Port of registry
  
UK Greece

In service
  
3 March 1966

Launched
  
5 February 1966

Weight
  
333 tons

Place built
  
Hessle, United Kingdom

Namesake
  
Laid down
  
24 November 1964

Construction started
  
24 November 1964

Length
  
48 m

Displacement
  
333,000 kg

Builder
  
Hessle

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Owner
  
1966–2000 Tall Ships Youth Trustfrom 2000 privately owned

Sir Winston Churchill was a sail training ship which was built in Hessle, Yorkshire by Richard Dunston Ltd. She was sold out of service in 2000 and currently serves as a private yacht.

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History

Sir Winston Churchill (schooner) Tall Ship SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Camper amp Nicholsons Sailing Yacht

Sir Winston Churchill was designed by Camper & Nicholson and built in 1966 to compete in the Tall Ships Race. The patron of the project was Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Public donations partly funded construction of the ship, and the Sail Training Association raised about half the needed money. The vessel was named after Winston Churchill, wartime leader and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Churchill had died the year before his namesake's construction. Her rig was deliberately designed to incorporate all the main types of sail. In November 1965, Sir Winston Churchill toppled over onto her starboard side whilst she was being fitted out. All three masts were broken. The accident happened a week before she was due to be launched by HRH Princess Alexandra.

In January 1967, she sank at Southampton, Hampshire. On 26 July 1967, she ran aground at Holyhead Harbour, Anglesey but was refloated after four hours.

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In 1968 a sister ship, Malcolm Miller was launched. Sir Winston Churchill differed from Malcolm Miller in having round topped cabin doors as opposed to square topped doors. A further difference was that the Sir Winston Churchill was trimmed slightly lower at the stern - because the concrete ballast had run aft slightly when it was poured during her construction. This difference in trim can be seen in most photographs of the two ships together.

Sir Winston Churchill entered the 1979 Tall Ships Race with an all-female crew. In 1976, the vessel took part in a transatlantic race to celebrate the Bicentenary of the United States Declaration of Independence. On 27 July 1981, she ran aground 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk with 39 female trainees on board. In 2000, Sir Winston Churchill was replaced in service by Prince William and sold by her owners, the Tall Ships Youth Trust. Her last voyage for the Tall Ships Youth Trust ended on 2 December 2000 at Portsmouth.

Sir Winston Churchill was sold to a company based in the Isle of Man. Initially she was used as a sail training ship, with a reduced capacity of 20 trainees instead of the 36 (3 watches of 12, Fore, Main & Mizzen) that the Tall Ships Youth Trust carried. She was totally refitted and re-engined in 2002 with twin Iveco diesel engines replacing her 270 horsepower (200 kW) Ford Mermaid engines. She was originally fitted with 2 off 654 Perkins engines for propulsion and 2 off 499 for power generation.

References

Sir Winston Churchill (schooner) Wikipedia


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