Lwów (ship)
Model of Lwów | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Chinsura |
| Namesake | Chinsura |
| Owner | Thomas & Brocklenbank |
| Operator | G. R. Cloover and Co. |
| Launched | 25 April 1868 |
| Fate | Sold, 1893 |
| Italy | |
| Name | Lucco |
| Owner | Fratelli Olvarii, Camogli |
| Acquired | 1893 |
| Fate | Sold, 1898 |
| Netherlands | |
| Name | Nest |
| Owner | P. Landberg & Zoon |
| Acquired | 1898 |
| Fate | Sold, 1920 |
| Poland | |
| Name | Lwów |
| Namesake | Lwów |
| Acquired | 1920 |
| Commissioned | 4 September 1921 |
| Decommissioned | 25 September 1937 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1938 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | School ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 11.4 m (37 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 6.9 m (22 ft 8 in) |
| Installed power | 2 × 8 hp (6 kW) auxiliary (110 volt) engines |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan |
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| Complement | 35 + 140 students |
Lwów was the first officially registered Polish sailing-ship. Launched in 1868 in Birkenhead, England, as frigate Chinsura, from 1883 she was named Lucco; then until 1920, Nest. Since 1920 she was under the Polish banner. Named Lwów, after the third biggest city of the Second Polish Republic, she cruised the whole world in the 1920s, being the first ship under Polish banner to have crossed the Equator, during a cruise to Brazil in 1923. She was also the first Polish training ship. Her notable captains included Mamert Stankiewicz.
She was eventually replaced as the Polish training ship by the newer Dar Pomorza. She was briefly used as a hulk by Polish Navy; retired in 1938, and was scrapped soon afterwards in the Baltic Sea port of Gdynia. Captain and marine writer Karol Olgierd Borchardt named Lwów "The cradle of navigators of the Polish Navy".