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27.07.2010 © Erik Aaseth

SS Belem

The French barque Belem (short for Bethlehem).
Built 1896, 406 tons, 51m (167") + 7m bowsprit, 22 sails (1000,5 m²), main mast draft 34m.
Originally a cargo ship, transporting cocoa and coffee from Brazil and French Guiana, and sugar from the West Indies, to Nantes in France.
Today she serves as a training ship. Miraculously she has survived nature catastrophes twice:
First she escaped the volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée/Hawaii in 1902, where the doomed harbor happened to be full, so she was compelled to anchor elsewhere.
Then again in Yokohama/Japan in 1923, where the harbor was destroyed by an earthquake, but Belem was lucky and somehow managed to escape.
Here seen sailing on a SE course past Primelin, Brittany, SW France, on July 27th 2010.
NOTE: Captured far out at sea w/ a tele lens (FF equiv. 676mm), through haze and mirage. Hence the minor distortions on the ropes etc.
Ref: Belem in Wikipedia

Olympus E-3 ,Olympus Zuiko Digital ED 50-200mm f2.8-3.5 SWD ,Olympus Zuiko EC-20
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