Kapitan Borchard

In the Roads this afternoon is the Polish sail training ship Kapitan Borchard 105 years old built in 1918, she is the oldest sailing ship currently flying the Polish flag. Launched in the Netherlands in 1918 and named "Nora", the ship was initially used as an ocean-going cargo vessel before being converted to a training ship in Sweden in 1989. Kapitan Borchardt - then named "Najaden" - became a Polish vessel in 2011 when it was purchased from the vessel's former owner. She is three masted Gaff Schooner 148 ft. long and she arrived from Dublin.......Robin Mawer