Sigyn (boat)

See also: Sigyn

The Sigyn is a Barque of wood, today ship-museum in the port of Turku in Finland.

The tradind ship

The boat leaves the shipyard of Gothenburg in 1887. It is the last three-masted ship out of wooden built for servire of tradind ship. Sigyn, under houses Swedish, transports Bois to an serious incident in 1913. It is repaired by minimizing the costs but is not then any more able to accomplish transoceanic voyages.

It is sold in the islands Åland in 1927, then repurchased by the Académie of Åbo in 1939.

The boat-museum

Since 1939, It is transformed into ship museum. Its maintenance is very expensive, and two complete restorations were necessary since its retirement, in the Années 1970, and in 1998 - 2001, for which it was moved with Mariehamn. Since its return, it is moored with the mouth of the river Will have, with the entry of the port of Turku, and with 300 meters of the Suomen Joutsen.

Source

External bonds

  • Seen with 360 degrees of Sigyn

  • Sigyn At Forum Marinum Museum

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