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| Type of unit: | Brig |
| Length: | 48,9 m |
| Breadth: | 9 m |
| Draught: | 3,8 m |
| Constructed in: | 1985 |
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| Mother port: | Gdansk |
| Flag: | Poland |
| Crew: | 27 |
| Velocity: | 13 knots |
| Displacement: | 370 T |
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| Number of sails: | 3 |
| Area of sails: | 430 m2 |
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Description:Oceania is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel. She was built in 1985 in Gdańsk Shipyard. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP Iskra II and Pogoria, but its rigging was different. Oceania was originally a full rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 meters high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes Oceania was classified as a frigate), but later the yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically. The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations. |
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