Étoile du Roy
Étoile du Roy, formerly Grand Turk, moored in Dunkirk, France. | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Grand Turk |
| Owner | Turk Phoenix Ltd. |
| Laid down | December 1996 |
| Launched | September 1997 |
| Fate | Sold, 2010 |
| France | |
| Name | Étoile du Roy |
| Owner | Étoile Marine Croisières |
| Port of registry | Saint-Malo, Brittany |
| Acquired | 2010 |
| Identification |
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| Status | in active service, as of 2019 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Sixth-rate frigate |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan |
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| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (engines) |
| Crew | 9 permanent + up to 23 volunteers |
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Étoile du Roy ('King's Star'), formerly Grand Turk, is a three-masted sixth-rate frigate, designed to represent a generic warship during the Age of Sail, with her design greatly inspired by HMS Blandford. The ship was built in Marmaris, Turkey, in 1996 to provide a replica of a frigate for the production of the ITV series adapted from the novels about Royal Navy officer Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forester. The tall ship is used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in her spacious saloon or on her deck. In 2010, the French company Étoile Marine Croisières, based in Saint-Malo, purchased the ship and renamed her Étoile du Roy.