Schooner · Norway
Anna Rogde
A schooner of 1868, probably the oldest still sailing. Norway calls her its sailing queen.
Technical data
- Rig
- Schooner
- Flag
- Norway
- Home port
- Harstad
- Built
- 1868
- Shipyard
- Bangsund Shipyard, Namsos
- Hull material
- Wood
- Length
- 27.4 m
- Beam
- 6.9 m
- Sail area
- 444 m²
- Sailing area
- Northern Norway and the Lofoten
Launched at the Bangsund yard in Namsos in 1868. In 1872 the Hardanger skipper Isak Rogde bought her and renamed her Anna af Bergen; when he married Anna of Kjøtta the ship came to be called Anna Rogde.
Because of her long and rich history her admirers call her the sailing queen of Norway. She carried freight along the Norwegian coast, in the Baltic and along the coasts of countries further south such as Portugal. She is living proof of Norway's old shipbuilding traditions and probably the oldest schooner still sailing anywhere in the world.
The Rogde family from the island of Kjøtta at Harstad has owned her for three generations. She offers local day trips, voyages to the Lofoten Islands and along the Norwegian coast, and conference services.
She is run by the Stiftelsen Anna Rogde foundation and has its own support group, Anna Rogdes Venner; all work aboard is done by volunteers. She sailed at the Sail Brest festival in 2000 and 2008. In 2010 the foundation merged with the Sør-Troms Museum, and she is still operated by volunteers with government support.