The Swedish East Indiaman Gotheborg
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Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th century Swedish East Indiaman, a wooden sailing vessel. The original sank off Gothenburg, Sweden on 12 September 1745 while approaching its home harbour after returning from her third voyage to the China. All sailors survived, but the ship was lost.
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The Building of East Indiaman Götheborg Pt 1 - Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 1
See how the East Indiaman Götheborg was built just as in the 18th century! This documentary follows the building of the exact replica ship; from the selection of 200-year-old oak trees to the traditional, hand-made carpentry, foundry and blacksmith work, and the making of 1.964 sqm hand-sewn linen canvas sails and 20 tons of hand-made hemp ropes.
This is a truly fascinating documentary that everyone with an interest in old, genuine and traditional shipbuilding and construction ought to see!
Se hur replika ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes precis som på 1700-talet! Denna dokumentär följer skeppsbygget, från selektionen av 200-åriga ekträd, till det traditionella snickeri, gjuteri och järnsmide arbetet, de 1.964 kvm handsydda seglen av linneduk och 20 ton handgjorda repen av hampa.
Detta är en fascinerande dokumentär som alla med ett intresse för gammalt, genuint och traditionellt skeppsbygge bör se!
'The Swedish Ship Götheborg is made of oak. Oak timber is hard, strong and resistant to decay as it contains tannin. This is why oak has always been by far the most popular wood for shipbuilding in Europe. Oak has been used for beams, knees and planking. More than a thousand oak logs from southern Sweden and Denmark have been used. Other important tree species include pine, spruce and elm. Pine has mainly been used for the ribs, decks and masts, spruce for the yards and spars, and elm for the blocks.
The new East Indiaman's gun deck has ten six-pound cast iron cannons. The cannons were cast according to a drawing dating back to the 1700s from Åkers Styckebruk in the province of Södermanland, the most important cannon producer in Sweden at the time.
18th century East Indiamen were mainly designed to sail in a tailwind. The rigging is an exact reconstruction of the original rigging from the 18th century. Built mainly using 18th century technology and materials.
Rig: Full-rigged square sails
Number of masts: Three
Number of yards: Ten
Heaviest yard: 1,7 ton
Material of the mast: Pine, approx 37 pines
Material of the yard: Fir
Rope/cordage: 20 ton hand-made hemp
Number of blocks: approx 650 st
Hight above waterline: 47 m
The sails are made and repaired by hand. During voyages there are always sailmakers on board to carry out repairs when the sails are damaged. It takes eight years for a sailmaker to make all the sails for the ship, which is why new production always is carried out.
Totalt har det gått 4000 m3 virke, varav 75 % ek och 25 % furu i bygget av Götheborg. Allt virke specialbeställdes eftersom skeppsvirke inte kan köpas på vanliga brädgårdar. Eken behövde vara 100 -- 200 år gammal.
10 kanoner, sexpundare. Originalet hade 30 kanoner, både tre- och sexpundare som försvar mot pirater och andra anfallande skepp.
1700-talets ostindiefarare var i huvudsak undanvinds-seglare. Riggen är en exakt rekonstruktion av en originalrigg för en ostindiefarare från mitten av 1700-talet. Tågvirket till den stående och den löpande riggen väger cirka 20 ton. För att manövrera riggen finns inga moderna hjälpmedel. Den hanteras helt och hållet med muskelkraft.
Ostindiefararen Götheborg är ett tremastat skepp med råsegel, dvs. rektangulära segel, på alla tre masterna. Förr i tiden kallades ett skepp av det här slaget fregattriggat, i dag kallar vi det ett fullriggat skepp eller en fullriggare.
Riggtyp: Fullriggad råseglare
Antal master: Tre
Antal rår: Tio
Tyngsta råt: 1,7 ton
Längsta råt: 23 m
Masternas virke: furu, ca 37 furor
Rårnas virke: gran
Tågvirke: 20 ton handslagen hampa
Antal block: ca 650 st
Riggens höjd över vattenlinjen: 47 m
Samtliga segel ombord tillverkas och repareras för hand. Under långseglingar finns det hela tiden segelmakare ombord för att utföra reparationer när segel får skador. Det tar åtta år för en segelmakare att sy alla segel till skeppet, därför pågår ständig nyproduktion och reparationer av seglen.'
Ägare: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet, SOIC
Owner: Swedish East India Company
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How The Swedish Ship Götheborg was built
Documentary on making East India man company ship Götheborg from scratch . the original ship sunk
The Götheborg tallship leaving Nice
On Tuesday the 24th of April The Swedish Ship Götheborg made a spectacular departure from the harbour of Nice. Cannons fired an 8 gun salute.
She left after 8 days in Nice and set sail towards London with her new volunteers who had signed on in Nice. The ship is scheduled to arrive in London on the 19th of May. London is the last stop on this long and adventurous expedition before she will reach her home port Göteborg on Saturday the 9th of June 2007 .
Swedish ship Götheborg Gun Salute to London
The Swedish East India Company replica Götheborg receiving a gun salute from HMS Belfast in London before giving her gun salute to London as a final farewell before leaving on her final journey home to Sweden.
Naming ceremony for replica 'East Indiaman' ship
1. Wide shot of 'East Indiaman Götheborg' ship replica in Gothenburg's harbour
2. Close up of bottle of champagne ready for naming ceremony
3. Swedish flag
4. Wide shot front of the ship
5. Tilt down from mast to Swedish flag
6. Close up ship's prow
7. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, walking to podium with Göran Bengtsson, chairman of the East Indiaman Götheborg Foundation, and ship's captain Peter Karling
8. SOUNDBITE (swedish) Queen Silvia of Sweden:
May luck and prosperity follow you and your crew on your journeys across the seas
9. Queen Silvia cutting the line holding bottle of champagne
10. Bottle swings into ship and breaks
11. Queen Silvia embracing King Carl XVI Gustaf, and shaking hand of the ship's captain
12. Ship emblem
13. Canon salute
14. Crew raising ship's sail
15. Ship's sails
16. Band playing onboard
17. Fireworks going off around ship
18. Bengtsson, Queen and King with fingers in their ears
19. More of fireworks at the back of the ship
20. Wide shot of ship
21. King and Queen boarding ship and greeting its captain Peter Karling
22. Band saluting the crew and royal couple
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A replica of the 18th Century trading ship, the East Indiaman Götheborg, was officially named by Queen Silvia of Sweden on Friday.
Hundreds of dignitaries from around the world attended the ceremony at the original vessel's home-port of Gothenburg.
It was on the homeward voyage from a sailing expedition to China in 1745 that one of the Swedish East India Company's ships foundered in the middle of Gothenburg harbour.
The East Indiaman had deviated from its proper course and ran aground on a well-known underwater rock. It rapidly took on water and sank with its entire cargo.
Over 200 years later, in 1984, the Swedish Underwater Archaeology Society made a ground breaking discovery of the sunken ship.
It was decided that a replica would be built under the newly formed SOIC (Swedish East India Company), which would implement the plans necessary to recreate a 1:1 copy.
Built using the same craftsmanship and materials as in the 18th Century, the replica ship is some 50 metres long with a breadth of 11 metres. She is 47 metres tall and displaces 1250 tonnes.
The vessel's alignments and equipment are based on archive information as well as measurements that were taken from the original, excavated Götheborg.
Some exceptions have, however, been necessary in view of modern marine safety regulations.
While the exterior presents an 18th Century appearance, the outside planking carries all the modern equipment required for the ship to meet present-day classification rules.
In 2005 the East Indiaman Götheborg will embark on an expedition to China.
En route it will make stops at ports in Spain, Brazil, South Africa, and Jakarta, before continuing on to its historical destination of Guangzhou (canton) in China, where a big welcoming ceremony is expected.
It is expected to arrive back in Gothenburg in September 2007.
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Götheborg - the East Indiaman in Vänersborg
This is a video from the visit of the East Indiaman Götheborg in Vänersborg!
Enjoy!!
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Swedish ship Götheborg visiting London on 19 May
The Swedish Ship Götheborg is now in London which is the last stopover before the ship will return to its homeport Göteborg after this almost 20 months long expedition.
Götheborg is the first replica of an East Indiaman that ever sailed in to London. The ship gave a eight shot salute from her iron cannons as she sailed through Tower Bridge. The salute was returned by HMS Belfast firing for the first time since her berthing in London. Then Götheborg continued into London Pool.
East Indiaman Götheborg -part 1
Örnsköldsvik 2008. Götheborg arrives
Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th century Swedish East Indiaman, a wooden sailing vessel
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swedish East Indiaman Götheborg departure bound for China.
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The East-Indiaman (Götheborg)
Egenkomponerad instrumentalmusik med bildspel/videoklipp från Ostindiefararen Götheborgs besök i Visby sommaren 2008.
East Indiaman trailer
Short information about The Swedish Ship Gotheburg, the construction, research, journeys, adventures in China and the latest expeditions.
The Swedish Ship Götheborg story on Carte Blanche, South Africa.
South African TV program Carte Blanche did this documentary about Götheborg, when the ship did a port of call i Cape Town.
Carte Blanche has developed a high degree of credibility in South African television journalism and has been awarded over 100 local and international awards. The show consistently ranks in the top 10 on M-Net and enjoys a local viewership of about 500 000 people every week.
Swedish ship Götheborg - Full Broadside Salute
Sitting about 200 meters downrange of the 6-pounder cannons carried by The Swedish Ship Götheborg of The Swedish East India Company, SOIC(Svenska Ostindiska Companiet), as she fires a farewell gun salute broadside in Lidköping harbour during a tour of the great swedish lake Vänern.
She is a replica of an 18th century Indiaman constructed using historic construction methods.
Read more about her at:
Filmed with a Sony HDR-CX240. 1080p50 playback available in Google Chrome.
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Sitter ungefär 200 meter rakt framför ett batteri 6-pund kanoner som finns ombord Ostindiefararen Götheborg, som tillhör det Svenska Ostindiska Companiet SOIC, samtidigt som hon skjuter salut med hela sin bredsida i Lidköping hamn under hennes Vänern turné.
Hon är en replika av en 1700-tals Ostindiefarare, konstruerad med historiska byggnadsmetoder.
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Filmad med en Sony HDR-CX240E, 1080p50 uppspelning finns med Google Chrome.
Midsummer party with the East Indiaman Götheborg crew
Battle between Götheborg and Shtandart
Battle between the replicas of historic sailing ships Götheborg (Sweden) and Shtandart (Russia) in the harbour of Aarhus (Denmark)
East Indiaman Götheborg -part 3
Elvy Söderström is welcoming the captain and his crew.
Örnsköldsvik 2008. Götheborg arrives Götheborg is a sailing replica of an 18th century Swedish East Indiaman, a wooden sailing vessel
The Building of East Indiaman Götheborg Pt 2 - Hur Ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes del 2
See the replica East Indiaman Götheborg being built just as in the 18th century! This documentary follows the shipbuilding; from the selection of 200-year-old oak trees to the traditional, hand-made carpentry, foundry and blacksmith work, and the making of 1.964 sqm hand-sewn linen canvas sails and 20 tons of hand-made hemp ropes.
This is a truly fascinating documentary that everyone with an interest in old, traditional 18th century shipbuilding and construction should see!
Se hur replika ostindiefararen Götheborg byggdes precis som på 1700-talet! Denna dokumentär följer skeppsbygget, från selektionen av 200-åriga ekträd, till det traditionella snickeri, gjuteri och järnsmide arbetet, de 1.964 kvm handsydda seglen av linneduk och 20 ton handgjorda repen av hampa.
Detta är en fascinerande dokumentär som alla med ett intresse för gammalt, genuint och traditionellt skeppsbygge bör se!
'The Swedish Ship Götheborg is made of oak. Oak timber is hard, strong and resistant to decay as it contains tannin. This is why oak has always been by far the most popular wood for shipbuilding in Europe Oak has been used for beams, knees and planking. More than a thousand oak logs from southern Sweden and Denmark have been used. Other important tree species include pine, spruce and elm. Pine has mainly been used for the ribs, decks and masts, spruce for the yards and spars, and elm for the blocks.
The new East Indiaman's gun deck has ten six-pound cast iron cannons. The cannons were cast according to a drawing dating back to the 1700s from Åkers Styckebruk in the province of Södermanland, the most important cannon producer in Sweden at the time.
18th century East Indiamen were mainly designed to sail in a tailwind. The rigging is an exact reconstruction of the original rigging from the 18th century. Built mainly using 18th century technology and materials.
Rig: Full-rigged square sails
Number of masts: Three
Number of yards: Ten
Heaviest yard: 1,7 ton
Material of the mast: Pine, approx 37 pines
Material of the yard: Fir
Rope/cordage: 20 ton hand-made hemp
Number of blocks: approx 650 st
Hight above waterline: 47 m
The sails are made and repaired by hand. During voyages there are always sailmakers on board to carry out repairs when the sails are damaged. It takes eight years for a sailmaker to make all the sails for the ship, which is why new production always is carried out.
Totalt har det gått 4000 m3 virke, varav 75 % ek och 25 % furu i bygget av Götheborg. Allt virke specialbeställdes eftersom skeppsvirke inte kan köpas på vanliga brädgårdar. Eken behövde vara 100 -- 200 år gammal.
10 kanoner, sexpundare. Originalet hade 30 kanoner, både tre- och sexpundare som försvar mot pirater och andra anfallande skepp.
1700-talets ostindiefarare var i huvudsak undanvinds-seglare. Riggen är en exakt rekonstruktion av en originalrigg för en ostindiefarare från mitten av 1700-talet. Tågvirket till den stående och den löpande riggen väger cirka 20 ton. För att manövrera riggen finns inga moderna hjälpmedel. Den hanteras helt och hållet med muskelkraft.
Ostindiefararen Götheborg är ett tremastat skepp med råsegel, dvs. rektangulära segel, på alla tre masterna. Förr i tiden kallades ett skepp av det här slaget fregattriggat, i dag kallar vi det ett fullriggat skepp eller en fullriggare.
Riggtyp: Fullriggad råseglare
Antal master: Tre
Antal rår: Tio
Tyngsta råt: 1,7 ton
Längsta råt: 23 m
Masternas virke: furu, ca 37 furor
Rårnas virke: gran
Tågvirke: 20 ton handslagen hampa
Antal block: ca 650 st
Riggens höjd över vattenlinjen: 47 m
Samtliga segel ombord tillverkas och repareras för hand. Under långseglingar finns det hela tiden segelmakare ombord för att utföra reparationer när segel får skador. Det tar åtta år för en segelmakare att sy alla segel till skeppet, därför pågår ständig nyproduktion och reparationer av seglen.'
Ägare: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet, SOIC
Owner: Swedish East India Company
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