Model ship - Belem

Belem ship model France Belem (ship)
Belem moored in Ostend, Belgium
History
France
Name
Belém (1896–1914)
Small Antilles (1914–1921)
Fantôme II (1921–1952)
Giorgio Cini (1952–1979)
Belem (1979–present)
Homonym Belém, Brazil
Builder Chantiers Dubigeon, Nantes (Chantenay-sur-Loire)
Launched 10 June 1896
Inaugural voyage 31 July 1896 to Montevideo and Belém, Brazil
Home port Nantes
Identification
IMO number: 8622983
MMSI number: 227051000
Call sign: FUZW
Status Active
General characteristics
Tonnage
406 tons
534 gross registered tons
Displacement 750 tons
Length
51 m (167 ft 4 in) LPP
48 m (157 ft 6 in) overall length
58 m (190 ft 3 in) (LPP + bowsprit)
Beam 8.8 m (28 ft 10 in)
Draft 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in)
Propulsion 2 diesel engines
Sailing rig Barque
Belem is a three-masted brigantine from France.

Belem line drawing
Its inaugural voyage as a merchant ship occurred in 1896, carrying sugar from the West Indies, cacao and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana to Nantes, France.

History
Belem escaped the eruption of Mount Pelée at Saint-Pierre, Martinique, on 8 May 1902. Arriving at Saint-Pierre before the eruption, Captain Julien Chauvelon found the bays crowded with boats. Having nowhere to anchor the ship, Chauvelon, in a fit of rage, decided to anchor a few miles offshore, off a beach, which provided shelter during the volcanic eruption.

In 1914 she was sold to Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, who transformed her into his luxurious private pleasure yacht, equipped with two 300 HP Bolinder Diesel auxiliary engines.

In 1922 she became the property of Sir Ernest Guinness, of the Guinness family, who renamed her Fantôme II and refitted her with square rigging. Guinness was Commodore of the Royal St. George Yacht Club, Kingstown, Ireland, from 1921 to 1939. He was Vice Commodore from 1940 to 1948. He took Fantôme II on a cruise in 1923 with his daughters Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh. They sailed around the world through the Panama and Suez canals, including a visit to Spitsbergen. While approaching the port of Yokohama navigating the Pacific Ocean, the brig managed to escape another catastrophe: an earthquake that destroyed the port and parts of Yokohama city. Guinness died in 1949. The Fantôme II was moored in the Cowes, Isle of Wight inlets.

In 1951 she was sold to industrialist Vittorio Cini, who named her Giorgio Cini in honor of his son who died in an airplane crash near Cannes on 31 August 1949. She was fitted out as a yawl and used as a training ship until 1965, when she was considered too old for further use and was moored at the Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice.

In 1972 Italian carabinieri attempted to restore her to her original brigantine-rigged armament. When this proved too expensive, she came under the ownership of a shipyard. In 1976 the ship was re-armed as a brigantine.

Finally, in January 1979, she returned to her home port as Belem, under the French flag, after 65 years. Fully restored and returned to her original condition, she began a new career as a sailing training ship.

On 8 and 9 May 2024, she carried the Olympic flame for the upcoming Summer Olympics torch relay, sailing from Athens, Greece to Marseille. [4]

In August 2025 she will be the flagship of Hanse Sail. [5]

Current specifications of Belem

Belem in Dublin on 14 July 2010
406 tons and 51 m in length
Riveted steel keel (for older parts)
Iron plate: 11 mm
Keel ballast: 4,500 cast ingots of 50 kg each
Hull length without bowsprit: 51 m
Bowsprit length: 7 m
Overall length: 58 m
Mean waterline length: 48 m
Midship beam: 8.80 m
Model depth: 4.60 m
Draft: 3.60 m
GRT: 534 tons
Displacement: 750 tons
Spars - rigging
Two-part steel masts (lower mast, foremast rigging)
Mainmast above waterline: 34 m
Lower shrouds steel, upper topsails and royal sails in wood
About 220 running tackles
About 250 simple, double and triple blocks
4500 m of running tackles in polyamide rope
Sails
Number of sails: 22
Sail area: 1000.5 m2 (all measurements above, excluding storm jib)
Propulsion and equipment
Powered by 2 diesel engines: John Deere 6135AFM, 575 HP each (installed February 2013)
2 transmission masts, 2 four-blade propellers
3 generators
Fuel oil storage: 40 tons
Cruise range: 24 days at 7 knots, about 4,000 nautical miles (7,400 km)
Freshwater reserve: 20 tons
Production of about 3 tons of water per day via dialysis
Electric winch
3 hydraulic winches (two small on the deck, one on each side, used to hoist the upper yards, but never used during training, one large aft, in front of the mainmast, used to haul lines during mooring operations)
Performance
Maximum speed with engine on calm seas and smooth: 8–9 knots
Maximum sailing speed: 11–12 knots
Beam wind tolerance of 75°
Time to spread all sails in favorable weather: 30–40 minutes
Time to hoist all sails in good weather: 50–60 minutes
Time for a complete tack: 15–20 minutes depending on wind conditions
Crew
A completed kit model of Belem.
16 men: 1 captain, 1 first officer, 2 lieutenants, 1 chief engineer, 2 cooks, 1 boatswain, 1 carpenter, 7 sailors (two from the French National Service until 2000)
Crew handled by the Société Nantaise de Navigation
Maximum number of trainees: 48 (two shifts of 24, divided into thirds of 16)
Origin: French noble family from the Loire region, purchased in Italy in the late 1900s.