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Khersones in Close Up

Photographs © John H. Luxton 2005

KHERSONES photographed at Waterloo Dock, Liverpool on June 10, 2005. She had arrived on Thursday June 09 to take part in the 2005 Mersey River Festival.

The KHERSONES is a DAR MLODZIEZY class full rigged ship one of several built at the Gdansk shipyard in the 1980s. She is sister vessel to the MIR which visited for the 2004 River Festival.

Built 1989 in Gdansk
Full rigged ship/3 Mast
Length: 108m, Breadth: 14m.
Draft: 6.80m
Height of Mast: 51.5m
Sail area: 2.770 sq metres
Number of sails: 26