{{Short description|Barquentine based in Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox ship |display_title=ital |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image=RAN-IFR 2013 D3 178.JPG |image_caption=''Southern Swan'' during the International Fleet Review 2013 }}
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|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption=as barquentine |type=Three-masted barquentine |tonnage= |length={{convert|39.6|m}} |beam={{convert|6.7|m}} |height={{convert|23.2|m}} mast height |draught={{convert|3|m}} |sail_plan=Short-rigged barquentine, {{convert|502|m2}} sail area |propulsion={{convert|350|hp|adj=on}} Caterpillar 3406 diesel, {{convert|6|kn}} |speed= |boats= |capacity= |crew= |sensors= |notes= }} }}
'''''Southern Swan''''' is a traditional Baltic trader, currently rigged as a three-masted barquentine. She is typical of coastal trading ships from the era 1840s to 1940s. Since the 1980s she is based in Australia.
== History == The ship was built in Frederikssund, Denmark in 1922.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1>Clarke & Iggulden, ''Sailing Home'', p. 1</ref> The hull was carvel-built from oak.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> She was rigged as a three-masted topsail schooner.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The ship is {{convert|39.6|m}} in length overall, with a beam of {{convert|6.7|m}} and a draught of {{convert|3|m}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden14/>
Initially operating under the name '''''Mathilde''''',{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} the ship was intended for trade voyages to and from Greenland.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> However, she spent most of her commercial career hauling grain to the Tuborg Brewery.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> During her career, she was renamed '''''Pacific''''' in 1926, '''''Hans Christian Andersen''''' in 1930, and '''''Svanen''''' (Swan) in 1938.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} In 1955, a 3-cylinder Alpha diesel engine was fitted to the vessel.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/>
In the late 1960s, she was sold to a Canadian couple, who spent the next decade refitting and rebuilding the ship.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> By the time she resumed operations in 1977, ''Our Svanen'' had received new masts and spars, and was re-rigged as a short-rigged barquentine. At this point she had her registry changed from Dutch to British.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> In her new configuration, she had a mast height of {{convert|23.2|m}}, and a total sail area of {{convert|502|m2}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden14>Clarke & Iggulden, ''Sailing Home'', p. 14</ref>
In 1978, the vessel sailed from England to the west coast of Canada.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> She spent the next six years operating out of Victoria, British Columbia as a training ship for the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> The charter ended in 1986, and she was sold to C.D.A. Sail Pacific, who put ''Our Svanen'' on display at Expo '86.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> During 1986, the Alpha engine was replaced by a {{convert|350|hp|adj=on}} Caterpillar 3406 diesel, which could propel the ship at {{convert|6|kn}}.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/><ref name=ClarkeIggulden14/>
At the end of 1986, ''Our Svanen'' left Canada for England, to join the First Fleet Re-enactment Voyage: a historical re-enactment for the Australian Bicentenary.<ref name=ClarkeIggulden1/> She left England for Australia in May 1987, and sailed with the fleet via Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Mauritius, and Fremantle before arriving in Sydney on Australia Day (26 January) 1988.<ref>King, ''The First Fleet''. p. 89-90</ref> During the stay at Mauritius, ''Our Svanen'' was re-registered as a Canadian vessel.<ref name="ClarkeIggulden14"/>
After the re-enactment, ''Our Svanen'' remained based in Sydney, with charters and cruises along the eastern Australian coast.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} In 2007, the ship was purchased by the Woods and Warne families, who formed the company [http://www.sydneytallships.com.au Sydney Harbour Tall Ships].{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} The vessel's name was changed to ''Southern Swan'' in 2010.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} The ship is used for charters, functions, and film work{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}. In October 2013, ''Southern Swan'' participated in the International Fleet Review 2013 in Sydney, Australia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr/participants/tall-ships |title=Participating Tall Ships {{!}} International Fleet Review 2013 |website=www.navy.gov.au |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130824182123/http://www.navy.gov.au/ifr/participants/tall-ships |archive-date=2013-08-24}} </ref>
==Citations== {{reflist}}
==References== *{{cite book|last=Clarke |first=Malcolm |author2=Iggulden, David |title=Sailing Home: a pictorial record of the First Fleet Re-enactment voyage |publisher=Angus and Robertson |location=North Ryde, NSW |date=1988 |isbn=0207159653 |oclc=21041747}} *{{cite book|last=King |first=Jonathan |title=Australia's First Fleet: the voyage and the re-enactment, 1788/1988 |publisher=Robertsbridge Limited and Fairfax Magazines |location=North Sydney, NSW and Waterloo, NSW |date=1987 |isbn=0947178163 |oclc=23869501}}
==External links== *https://web.archive.org/web/20120630065401/http://www.maritimeworld.net/sn.asp?PageNumber=230 *http://www.sydneytallships.com.au/our-fleet.html *http://www.tallshipfestival2013.com/tallships.html
Category:Individual sailing vessels Category:Tall ships of Australia Category:1922 ships