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James Onedin (Peter Gilmore), the younger son of old Samuel
Onedin, a miserly ship chandler, was a penniless sea captain
with aspirations to greater things. He married Anne Webster
(Anne Stallybrass), who was some years his senior
(Stallybrass, however, is actually seven years younger than
Gilmore) and the spinster daughter of Captain Joshua
Webster, owner of the topsail schooner Charlotte Rhodes
(portrayed by the schooner Meta Jan). James's only
motivation was to get his hands on the ship. A shrewd and
often ruthless operator, James soon built up a fleet,
assisted by the loyal Mr (later Captain) Baines (Howard
Lang). His other sailing ships included the Pampero, the
Medusa, the Soren Larsen, the "Neptune", the "Falcon", the
"Trident", the "Osprey", the steamship "Shearwater", the "
Christian Radich", the "Thorsoe", the steamer "Black Pearl",
the "Jenny Peak" renamed the "Letty Gaunt", the "Ondine",
the "Orlando", the "Star of Bethlehem", the "Teawind" and
the "Lady Lazenby". He also initiated the building of a
steamship, the Anne Onedin (until the death of his wife, to
be named the "Golden Nugget")
Ships used in the series
The Charlotte Rhodes berthed in the 1860s harbor of
Liverpool, England (In the Onedin Line series). It was operated by Captain James Onedin,
(Peter Gilmore) who rose to wealth and power as he
established his flourishing cargo shipping service.
The ship "Charlotte Rhodes", called Kathleen and May, is
Britain's last three-masted top sail schooner. It was built
for Captain John Coppack in 1900 in Connah's Quay in
Flintshire, for cargo trading around the Irish Sea
Among others, these tall ships were filmed:
Sailing vessel:
Statsraad Lehmkuhl (See web header of
TheOnedinLine.com)
The Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted barque rigged sail
training vessel owned and operated by the Statsraad Lehmkuhl
Foundation. It is based in Bergen, Norway and contracted out
for various purposes, including serving as a school ship for
the Royal Norwegian Navy (using RNoN's prefix "KNM",
English: "HNoMS").
It was built in 1914 as a school training ship for the
German merchant marine under the name Grossherzog Friedrich
August. After the First World War the ship was taken as a
prize by the United Kingdom and in 1921 the ship was bought
by former cabinet minister Kristoffer Lehmkuhl (hence the
name, which means 'Cabinet Minister Lehmkuhl'). With the
exception of the Second World War, when she was captured by
German troops and called Westwärts, the ship has belonged to
Bergens Skoleskib until it was donated to the Foundation in
1978.
In 2000, it was chartered by the German Navy while their
Gorch Fock was overhauled.
Sailing vessel:
Christian Radich
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 established by a grant from an officer of that
name.
The vessel is a full rigged three masted steel hull, 62.5 m
long, with an overall length of 73 m including the bowsprit
and a maximum width of 9.7 m. She has a draught of about 4.7
meters and a displacement at full load of 1050 tons. Under
engine power, the Christian Radich reaches a top speed of 10
knots, while she can make up to 14 knots under sail.
The crew is 18 all together. It can accommodate 88
passengers. The Christian Radich is well known through the
international release in 1958 of the Cinemiracle widescreen
movie Windjammer. The 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 as herself in the 1970s
BBC TV series The Onedin Line, as one of James Onedin's
ships.
The vessel was built for training sailors for the Norwegian
merchant navy, and did so for many years. From 1999 and on,
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 and large
sail events in various European ports. She won on corrected
time in Class A and overall the tall ship in total in 2007,
and became the only class A vessel that crossed the finish
line.
Christian Radich won the first race of the Tall Ships Race
2010 in Class A, from Antwerp to Skagen in Denmark, a
distance of 489 mill just under 2 days with an impressive
average speed of 10.2 knots, with the corrected time of 1
day 4 hours 29 minutes and 44 seconds, and won the over all
race 2010, making this its 5th victory in the Tall ships
Race.
Sailing vessel:
Sagres
Rickmer Rickmers is a sailing ship (three masted bark)
permanently moored as a museum ship in Hamburg, near the Cap
San Diego. Rickmer Clasen Rickmers, (1807–1886) was a
Bremerhaven shipbuilder and Willi Rickmer Rickmers,
(1873–1965) led a Soviet-German expedition to the Pamirs in
1928. The Rickmer Rickmers was built in 1896 by the Rickmers
shipyard in Bremerhaven, and was first used on the Hong Kong
route carrying rice and bamboo. In 1912 she was bought by
Carl Christian Krabbenhöft, renamed Max, and transferred to
the Hamburg - Chile route.
In World War I the Max was captured by the Government of
Portugal, in Horta (Azores) harbour and loaned to the United
Kingdom as a war aid. For the remainder of the war the ship
sailed under the Union Jack, as the Flores. After World War
I she was returned to the Portuguese Government, becoming a
Portuguese Navy training ship and was once more renamed, as
NRP Sagres (the second of that name). In 1958, she won the
Tall Ships' Race.
In
the early 1960s the Sagres (II) was retired from school ship
service when the Portuguese Navy purchased, from Brazil, the
school ship Guanabara (originally launched in Germany in
1937 as the Albert Leo Schlageter and renamed NRP Sagres
(III)), and was laid up in a shipyard. She was purchased in
1983 by an organisation named "Windjammer für Hamburg e.V.",
renamed for the last time, back to Rickmer Rickmers, and
turned into a floating museum ship
Sailing vessel:
Danmark
Sailing vessel:
Soren
Larsen
The tallship Soren Larsen is a brigantine built 1948–1949 in
Nykøbing Mors, Denmark.
Its current homebase is Auckland, New Zealand. The ship
undertakes adventure sail training for people of all ages.
Tallship adventure voyages in New Zealand and through the
islands of the South Pacific—with up to 22 paying Voyage
Crew of all ages join for 5, 10, 17 nights or several weeks
under the direction and tuition of 13 permanent crew.
View a painting of the Soren Larsen from
Yasmina Defloor-Vanhove
Visit her
official website
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