Hi Jochen

Just to let you know that i have relocated your photograph to the TALL SHIP CATEGORY.

Some additional information from http://www.tallship-fan.de/index_e.htm

Former names: Magdalene Vinnen, Kommodore Johnsen
Registered port: Murmansk
Nation: RUS
Type of rigging: 4-MAST-BARK
Year built: 1921
Yard: F. Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, GER
Overall length: 117.50 m
Length (hull): 109.00 m
Breadth: 14.70 m
Draught: 6.70 m
Sail area: 4192 m2
Ship's hull: Stahl / Steel
Power: 1160 PS
Engine: VEB SKL Magdeburg

# one of the biggest windjammer still on the water today
# under the name "Magdalene Vinnen", she was used to transport salpetre and grain between 1921 and the end of the 1930s as a freight-carrying
sailtraining vessel for the shipowners F.A. Vinnen (Bremen, Germany)
# bought by the Deutscher Lloyd and renamed the "Kommodore Johnson" in 1936, grain-races between Europe and Australia until the war, last voyage in 1939
# in WWII she was used as a sailtraining ship in the Baltic Sea, laid up in winter in Flensburg
# after 1949 given to the British authorities, in 1950 was brought to Odessa, renamed to honour the polar explorer G.J. Sedov, since then she sailed under the Russian flag as a sailtraining vessel and for oceanographic research voyages by the Russian Academy of Science
# since 1965 she sailed for the Ministry of Fishery of the Soviet Union to train the crews and officers of the Russian fishery
# rebuilding and general overhaul after 1972

You can read/see more of this Ship @ http://www.sedov.info/

Regards

Steve Ellwood (admin)