''Santa Maria Manuela'' is a Portuguese four-masted schooner. Originally a codfish fishing ship, ''Santa Maria Manuela'' is now used for sail training, hands on sailing holidays, environmental expeditions and team development programs. It belongs to Grupo Jerónimo Martins and is the sistership of the

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's ''Creoula''.

History

''Santa Maria Manuela'' was built in the CUF shipyards at Lisbon in 1937, as a ''lugre bacalhoeiro'' (

codfish Cod is the common name for the demersal fish genus '' Gadus'', belonging to the family Gadidae. Cod is also used as part of the common name for a number of other fish species, and one species that belongs to genus ''Gadus'' is commonly not call ...

fishing

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). The similar ''Creoula'' was built in the same shipyards at the same time. Another similar and still existent ship, ''Argus'' was built in 1938 by the shipyard De Haan & Oerlemans, Heusden, Holland. Since its building and until the late 1980s, ''Santa Maria Manuela'' was employed in the

fishing in the seas of Newfoundland and

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, being one of the ships of the White Fleet (as the Portuguese fishing fleet was known in Newfoundland, because of the white color of most of their ships). The ship was owned by Empresa de Pesca de Viana fishing company, until 1963, when it was sold to Empresa de Pesca Ribau. During the 1960s, ''Santa Maria Manuela'' underwent several modifications and technological improvements in order to be able to continue in fishing activity. Finally in 1993, definitely been considered obsolete, the ship was partially demolished, only her hull being preserved. In 2007, Pascoal S.A. bought the remainings of the ship and started a long and well documented restoration process in the Aveiro shipyards, returning it to its original state in 2010. She took part in the Fete-Maritime-de-Brest-2016 (Tall ships Race) on 19 July 2016.

Sea training and cruise ship

Sail training and adventure sailing voyages are offered for up to 44 paying guests.''Segelschulschiff Santa Maria Manuela erstmals in Travemünde.'' In: Der Reporter, may, 11 2016, page 32.

External links

''Santa Maria Manuela'' Official Site''Santa Maria Manuela'' at www.shipspotting.com

References

1937 ships Training ships Ships built in Portugal {{Portugal-transport-stub