Kaliakra (ship)

The Kaliakra on the quay in his home port of Varna

The Kaliakra is the sail training ship of the Bulgarian merchant navy.

The ship

Kaliakra is one of three ultra-modern sister ships that have been developed for educational and training purposes: The Pogoria of the association of "Iron Shackles " still serves the training of officer cadets of the Polish merchant marine, the Iskra II is a sailing school ship of the Polish Navy.

The three-masted sailing ship in 1984 after plans by the Polish designer Zygmunt choirs in the shipyard " Paris Commune " in Gdynia ( body shop) and the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, built (Poland). Hull, masts, and standing rigging are made of steel, running rigging partly of steel and partly of textile.

Task

The sail training ship usually takes 34 students at the Naval Academy, Varna on board, future ship's officers of the Bulgarian merchant navy, so learn the traditional seamanship on a large Barkentine. This training cruises in the Black and Mediterranean usually last four to five weeks.

If the Kaliakra is located in the summer in her home port of Varna, tourists can travel on short sails games along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast as sailors. On board already members of royal families and heads of state were as the heads of the international sail training associations welcomed.

Name

The Kaliakra got its name after the legendary Bulgarian girl Kaliakra, which should have preferred under the Turkish occupation the death of forcible conversion to Islam. This girl is said to have plunged along with 40 comrades fate of the rocks of Cape Kaliakra in the lake.

Regattas

In addition to their task, the Kaliakra is also participating in regattas: