We had some lovely, sunny, very spring-like weather back during the winter olympics back in February. Since the end of the games, we've seen a lot of grey overcast skies and rain. This is as if the season has reversed and we're getting now what we should have received earlier in the season. Now that summer is approaching we may finally be seeing a bit more sun. The venues at the games were crowded, the line-ups long but in heading over to
Lonsdale Quay in
North Vancouver to see the
Kruzenshtern I was pleasantly surprised. Here are a few more photos taken during that visit on February 21st.
The
Kruzenshtern is a Russian tallship, a four masted barque built originally in 1926 in
Bremerhaven-Wesermuende,
Germany as shipyard number
S408 as the
Padua. She was given to the
U.S.S.R. in 1946 as war reparations (WWII) and renamed the Kruzenshtern after the 19th century
Baltic German explorer,
Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (1770-1846), descended from Swedish aristocracy (
Krusenstierna). Its the only remaining
Flying P-liners still in use. The Kruzenshtern is used as a training ship based out of
Kaliningrad (the former
Koenigsberg),
Kaliningrad Oblast (region), and
Murmansk,
Russia. If you would like to learn more about the ship, Google "Kruzenshtern" for a start.
Getting this shot above was a bit tricky, so I had to keep the sun behind one of the masts. It wasn't overcrowded at all, which was a pleasant surprise as I mentioned earlier.
This series of shots give us an idea of the size of the ship. It doesn't look all that big from a distance but we realize its true grandeur once we get closer.
The photo above shows the Russian flag at the stern with the name of the ship and its home port in
Cyrillic script. The year, 1795, is rather misleading since the city of
Kaliningrad was then known as
Koenigsberg and part of
Prussia (later part of
Germany after
German unification in 1870) and only part of
Russia after the end of WWII in 1945.
I hope you've enjoyed the photos. Feel free to comment either directly on this blog or via email. Have a great day!!! - V
We had some lovely, sunny, very spring-like weather back during the winter olympics back in February. Since the end of the games, we've seen a lot of grey overcast skies and rain. This is as if the season has reversed and we're getting now what we should have received earlier in the season. Now that summer is approaching we may finally be seeing a bit more sun. The venues at the games were crowded, the line-ups long but in heading over to Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver to see the Kruzenshtern I was pleasantly surprised. Here are a few more photos taken during that visit on February 21st.
The Kruzenshtern is a Russian tallship, a four masted barque built originally in 1926 in Bremerhaven-Wesermuende, Germany as shipyard number S408 as the Padua. She was given to the U.S.S.R. in 1946 as war reparations (WWII) and renamed the Kruzenshtern after the 19th century Baltic German explorer, Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (1770-1846), descended from Swedish aristocracy (Krusenstierna). Its the only remaining Flying P-liners still in use. The Kruzenshtern is used as a training ship based out of Kaliningrad (the former Koenigsberg), Kaliningrad Oblast (region), and Murmansk, Russia. If you would like to learn more about the ship, Google "Kruzenshtern" for a start.
Getting this shot above was a bit tricky, so I had to keep the sun behind one of the masts. It wasn't overcrowded at all, which was a pleasant surprise as I mentioned earlier.
This series of shots give us an idea of the size of the ship. It doesn't look all that big from a distance but we realize its true grandeur once we get closer.
The photo above shows the Russian flag at the stern with the name of the ship and its home port in Cyrillic script. The year, 1795, is rather misleading since the city of Kaliningrad was then known as Koenigsberg and part of Prussia (later part of Germany after German unification in 1870) and only part of Russia after the end of WWII in 1945.
I hope you've enjoyed the photos. Feel free to comment either directly on this blog or via email. Have a great day!!! - V
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