RV Oceania

History
Poland
Builder| Gdańsk Shipyard, Gdańsk
Launched| 1985
Homeport| Gdańsk
Identification|

* IMO number: 8304854
* MMSI number: 261000150
* Callsign: SQOC

Status| Operational
General characteristics
Tonnage| 370 GT
Length| 48.9m
Beam| 9.0m
Height| 32.0m
Draught| 3.8m
Propulsion| Diesel, 816 hp with controllable pitch propeller, bow thrusters 70 hp, 430 m2 sails on 3 masts
Speed| 6 kn on sails, 13.5 kn on engine
Endurance| 1 month
Boats & landing
craft carried| 2 inflatable outboards
Complement| 13 crew, 14 scientists

RV Oceania, or SY Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel.

She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP Iskra II and Pogoria, but its rigging was different. Oceania was originally a full-rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 metres high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes Oceania was classified as a frigate), but later the yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically.

The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations.

## External links

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* Official page of RV Oceania