Barquentine · Poland
Iskra II
A Polish training barquentine of 1982 that rounded Cape Horn in 1995.
Technical data
- Rig
- Barquentine
- Flag
- Poland
- Home port
- Gdynia
- Built
- 1982
- Shipyard
- Stocznia Gdanska, Gdansk, PL
- Hull material
- Steel
- Length
- 49 m
- Beam
- 8 m
- Sail area
- 955 m²
- Sailing area
- Baltic Sea and Atlantic
The school ship of the Naval University at Gdynia.
A square stern is a characteristic feature of these Polish-designed and Polish-built ships. The plan for the class was drawn up by the famous Polish designer Zygmunt Choreń; the Polish barquentine Pogoria (1980), the Bulgarian Kaliakra (1984) and the Polish Oceania (1985), with her three-masted experimental rig, share a similar hull.
A Bermudian sail is set on her mizzen mast.
She has often sailed the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race — from London to Hamburg in 1989, the Columbus Regatta in 1992 and Gdańsk–Mariehamn–Stockholm–Flensburg in 2000.
The date "27 November 1995, Cape Horn" is painted on her deckhouse.