Built: 1932, Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, United Kingdom, YN 269
BRT: 770 tons
LOA: 78.40 m
BOA: 11.09 m
Draught: 4.50 m
Type: Barkentine, composite rigging, 15 sails, 1.600 m2
Engine: 1 Burmaister & Wain auxiliary diesel, 500 HP
Screws: 1, 2-bladed, put in vertical position to reduce drag when under sail
Speed, engine: 8-11 knots
Speed, sails: 13 knots

Named after the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)
Steel barquentine designed by Baron Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934) officer of the Belgian Royal Navy who led the Belgian Antartic Expedition (1897-1899) and built in 1932 in Great Britain. Used as trainingvessel for the Antwerp Maritime College untill 1960. Now it is a museum located in the port of Ostend. Occasionaly a short trip at sea is made with volunteers as crew.
For more info www.zeilschip-mercator.be