Europa Model Ship

Europa was a three-masted steel barque.

About the Europa wooden scale Model Ship

This model ship of the Europa was custom built from the following information:

• The original construction drawings.
• Visit to the ship while in Cape Town Harbor taking measurements.
• Collaboration with various members of the crew.

About the construction of the Europa wooden scale Model Ship

• The hull is built using the Double Plank-on-Bulkhead construction method
• The bulkheads and keel are cut from marine grade pine plywood
• The first layer of planking is done plank by plank using Mahogany planks
• The second layer of planking is done using Mahogany Veneer strips
• The deck is made of Anagre, a light brown timber from the Amazon
• The gunwale and stringers are made of American Walnut
• The fife rails and pin racks are made of American Walnut
• The deckhouses and gangways are made of Teak
• The masts and yards are made of Mahogany dowels
• The sails and ropes are made of linen
• The model is painted with acrylic paint
• The ornaments are cold cast in bronze and painted

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History of the Europa

The Europa is a Three-masted steel barque, built by H.C Stülcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1911, with a compliment of 64.

Originally the Europa was named Senator Brockes. Until 1977, it was in use by the German Federal Coast Guard as a lightship on the river Elbe. In 1985 a Dutchman bought her and in 1994 she was fully restored as a barque, a three-mast rigged vessel, and retrofitted for the special-purpose of sail training.

The Europa cruises worldwide and accepts paying voyage crew (trainees) for short or long trip segments, including ocean crossings, Sail Training Association races, and annual voyages to Antarctica, and between South, Tristan da Cunha, and Cape Town.

She rounded Cape Horn in 2002 and 2013.   In 2010 the Europa participated in Velas Sudamerica 2010, a historical Latin American tour by eleven tall ships to celebrate the bicentennial of the first national governments of Argentina and Chile.

The Europa circumnavigated the world in 2013-2014 with two other Dutch tall ships, Tecla and Oosterschelde. In October 2013 she participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney.

Member of The Nautical Research Guild

Learn more about the Europa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(ship)