UAM Creoula

The Creoula 2006 at the Tajo

The Creoula is a sailing school ship of the Portuguese Navy. The Creoula is the last seagoing Grand Bank schooner.

History

The Grand Banks, the waters off Nova Scotia was once abundant in cod. When dried fish, the Bacalhau he will gladly eaten today. Fishing was formerly made with the long lines, of rowing boats, the Dorys. These were mounted on the deck of the schooner. A fishing trip almost always lasted from April to September. She brought about 800 tons of fish and 60 tons of cod liver oil. In winter, the ships lay in the harbor, were maintained and re-equipped.

The ship

The Creoula was built in 1937 at the shipyard Companhia União Fabril (CUF ) in Lisbon in only 62 days. The client was the fishing company parceria Geral de Pescas Lda. From 1938 to 1973 she was in the fisheries off Newfoundland and Greenland in action. In 1973, she was launched in Lisbon and eventually bought after six years of negotiations by the Ministry of Fisheries to be converted to a fisheries museum. During the work it was noticed that the steel hull was in excellent condition. So it was decided to fully prepare the ship again and use as a training ship of the Fisheries Academy. The Creoula sails today with a crew of 38 Marines and 50 students of the Fisheries Academy.

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