Norway Sailing Ship CHRISTIAN RADICH 1986 Naval Cover w/ TONGA BANANA Stamp

Description: Norway Sailing Ship CHRISTIAN RADICH 1986 Naval Cover w/ TONGA BANANA StampIt was sent 4 Jul 1986. It was franked with stamp "Tonga". This cover is in good, but not perfect condition. Please look at the scan and make your own judgement. Member USCS #10385 (I also earned the stamp collecting merit badge as a boy!). Please contact me if you have specific cover needs. I have thousands for sale, including; navals (USS, USNS, USCGC, Coast Guard, ship, Maritime), military posts, event, APO, hotel, postal history, memoribilia, etc. I also offer approvals service with FREE SHIPPING to repeat USA customers.International postage is just $2 for all orders up to $20. However, orders greater than $20 require tracking which costs $15 through eBay standard shipping service.Christian Radich is a Norwegian full-rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation, which was established by a grant from an officer of that name.[1] Description The vessel is a full-rigged three-masted [fr] steel hull, 62.5 metres (205 ft) long, with an overall length of 73 metres (240 ft) including the bowsprit and a beam of 9.7 metres (32 ft). It has a draught of approximately 4.7 metres (15 ft) and a displacement at full load of 1,050 tonnes (1,030 long tons; 1,160 short tons). Under engine power, Christian Radich reaches a top speed of 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h), while it can make up to 14 knots (16 mph; 26 km/h) under sail.[2] The vessel is maintained by 18 crew members. It can accommodate 88 passengers. The class society of the vessel is Det Norske Veritas, DNV, and is built to +1A1, E0.[citation needed] History Christian Radich is well known through the international release of the 1958 Cinemiracle movie Windjammer. Christian Radich sailed to the United States in 1976 as part of the Bicentennial Celebration, and partook in the Operation Sail parade in New York Harbor on 4 July 1976. The ship also appeared in the 1970s BBC TV series The Onedin Line, as one of James Onedin's ships.[3] The vessel was initially built to train sailors in the Norwegian merchant navy, and did so for many years. Since 1999, the ship has been on the charter market as well as sailing with paying trainees to foreign ports on summer trips, participating in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships Race, Operation Sail events, and large sail events in European ports. In 1980, the vessel won the OpSail 80 race from Boston, USA to Kristiansand, Norway, taking 17 days to do so. It was the first time a tall ship had beaten the racing yachts in both uncorrected and corrected time. Christian Radich won the first race of the Tall Ships Race 2010 in Class A, from Antwerp to Skagen in Denmark, a distance of 787 km (489 mi) just under two days with an average speed of 10.2 knots (11.7 mph; 18.9 km/h), with the corrected time of 1 day, 4 hours, 29 minutes, and 44 seconds, and won the overall race 2010, making this the ship's fifth victory in the Tall Ships Race.[4]

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