Johanna Lucretia

Johanna Lucretia

The "Johanna Lucretia" is a British tall ship and is an oak wooden two masted topsail schooner built at the Rhoos Shipyard, Ghent in Belgium in 1945. The "Johanna Lucretia" measures 96ft (28.65m) in length, her beam is 18 ft (5.50m), her draught is 8 ft (2.45m) and she has a total sail area of 380 m2.

Although originally built as a fishing vessel, she was never used for that purpose and was converted for recreational use in 1954, by the then owner Ber van Meer. She sailed in Dutch waters until 1989 from her port in Enkhuizen in The Netherlands. In 1989 the "Johanna Lucretia" was sold and transferred her base to Plymouth in the United Kingdom under the ownership of Mrs. Heather Henning.

In 1991/1992 she was refitted in Gloucester at the Tommy Nielson Yard and was used for charter mainly from Gibraltar, the Caribbean and the Eastern coast of the United States until 2001 after which she was sold to Cutlass Classic Charters Ltd.

She has starred in the film "The Riddle of the Sands" in 1978 when she took the part of the "Medusa" and more recently in the film "Amazing Grace" - a drama about William Wilberforce's campaign to end the slave trade. She also starred in the Irish TV reality show "Cabin Fever" where she replaced the original "Cabin Fever" ship after it ran aground off Tory Island

External links

* [http://www.johannalucretia.com/ Official Johanna Lucretia Site]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6608355.stm Article on the BBC including a short film]
* [http://www.british-waterways.org/newsroom/all-press-releases/display/id/2265 British Waterways License it or Loose it]
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/seized--the-historic-schooner-that-was-simply-abandoned-945994.html/ Article in the Independent]
* [http://www.independent.ie/unsorted/migration/tv-fever-boat-to-go-under-hammer-668778.html Article in the Irish Independent]
* [http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/latestnews/Gloucester-docks-ship-sale/article-357061-detail/article.html Article on the This is Gloucestershire Website]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1733886.ece Article in the Times Online]


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