Europa (ship)

Europa is a steel-hulled barque registered in the Netherlands. Originally she was a German lightship, named Senator Brockes and built in 1911 at the H.C. Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. Until 1977, she was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. A Dutchman bought the vessel (or what was left of her) in 1985 and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for special-purpose sail-training.

Europa 2007
History
Germany
Name	Senator Brockes
Namesake	Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680-1747)
Builder	H. C. Stülcken & Sohn, Hamburg, Germany
Cost	300,000 Reichsmark
Yard number	409
Launched	1911 There was an earlier ship named Europa. [1]
Out of service	1977
Fate	Sold, 1985
History
Netherlands
Name	Europa
Owner	Rederij bark EUROPA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Operator	Rederij bark EUROPA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Port of registry	The Hague, The Netherlands
Christened	1994
Acquired	1985
In service	1994
Homeport	The Hague
Identification	IMO number: 8951932 Call Sign: PDZS
Status	Active
General characteristics
Type	Three-masted steel barque
Tonnage	303 GT
Length	39.8 m (131 ft)
Beam	7.45 m (24.4 ft)
Height	33 m (108 ft)
Draught	3.8 m (12 ft)
Depth of hold	4.6 m (15 ft)
Installed power	2 × 365 HP Caterpillar 6-cyl. Diesel
Propulsion	Sail; auxiliary Diesel engine
Sail plan	30 sails (incl. 6 studding sails; 1,250 m2 (13,500 sq ft) sail area
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Range	Worldwide
Complement	64
Notes	[2]

Europa cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to Antarctica, and between South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, and Cape Town.

In 2002 and 2013 she rounded Cape Horn. In 2010 she participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, an historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.[3]

In 2013-2014 Europa circumnavigated the world together with two other Dutch tall ships, Tecla and Oosterschelde. They sailed from South Africa to Mauritius, Australia and New Zealand. In October 2013 Europa participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney. From New Zealand, the ship sailed an official Cape Horn rounding (October - December 2013). In June 2014 Europa completed her circumnavigation by arriving in Amsterdam.

On 20 May 2023, Europa fell over during an attempt to transfer the steel-hulled barque back into the water from drydock at a Cape Town ship repair facility. One crewmember was injured in the attempt.[4]