Tall Ship Tenacious Masthead

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Tall Ship Tenacious Masthead

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Dale Powell

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Tall Ship Tenacious Masthead

Tall Ship Tenacious

This impressive 65m barque was launched in 2000 she was the largest wooden tall ship to be built in the UK for over 100 years. Her whole build process was unique and disabled and able bodied volunteers helped to build her, so she is greatly loved by her guest crews and supporters.
Unique British Design

Tenacious (and her smaller sister ship Lord Nelson) are the only two of their kind in the world that have been designed and built to enable people of all physical abilities to sail side by side on equal terms. 36 000 people have sailed on the two ships since they were built.

Facilities on board include wide flat decks for ease of movement around the ship, wheel chair lifts between deck levels, a hearing hoop, a speaking compass when required and hydraulic power assisted steering to enable people with limited strength or mobility to experience the thrill of steering a 586 ton sailing ship. (more details on her special facilities for the disabled).

The STS Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s to accommodate anyone over 16 with a disability. Launched in 2000, it became the largest wooden tall ship built in the United Kingdom in the last 100 years. It is 65 metres (213.25 feet) long, including bowsprit, and it is rigged as a (three-masted) barque with two mizzen gaffs. Its deck is 49.85 metres long, its hull is 54.02 metres long, and it has a beam of 10.6 metres at its widest point. A press release from the Belfast Maritime Festival on June 22, 2006 announced that the Tenacious was "the largest wooden ship still afloat".

The Tenacious displaces about 714 tons (summer draft). Its maiden voyage was on 1 September 2000 from Southampton to Southampton calling at Sark, St Helier and Weymouth. The ship is owned by a UK-based charity, the Jubilee Sailing Trust, which also owns the 42 metre long tall ship STS Lord Nelson (length including bowsprit is 55 metres and waterline length is 37 metres).

The Tenacious featured in the first episode of Channel 5's Sea Patrol UK, when one of the crew members had fallen ill and needed to be winched into an RAF Westland Sea King and taken to hospital. Due to the height of the masts and rigging, this posed a challenge to the helicopter's pilot and winch crew but the rescue attempt was successful and the crew member survived a potentially fatal condition.

Name: STS Tenacious
Owner: Jubilee Sailing Trust
Builder: Jubilee Yard (Merlin Quay), Southampton
Laid down: 6 June 1996
Launched: 3 February 2000
Commissioned: 1 September 2000
Status: Operational
General characteristics
Tons burthen: 586 tons
Length: 54 m (177 ft) hull, 65 m (213 ft) including bowsprit
Beam: 10.6 m (35 ft)
Draught: 4.58 m (15.0 ft) in summer
Propulsion:

Sails: 1,217 m2 (13,100 sq ft)
Engines: 2x400bph

Sail plan: Barque (three-masted))
Speed: 11 knots (20.37 km/h) under sail, 8 knots (14.82 km/h) under power
Complement:

Permanent crew approx 11 (incl. 3 volunteers)
Voyage crew up to 40 (50% of whom may be sensory impaired or physically disabled)

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