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The tall ship “Kruzenshtern” arrives at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Free public boarding will be today though Sunday, July 3-5 from 12-5

The tall ship "Kruzenshtern" arrives at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy Friday morning (07-03-09). The Kruzenshtern is a 376-foot in length, four-masted barque rig, and the second largest traditional sail training vessel in the world still in operation.

The Academy will host the Class A vessel from July 3-6th. The public is invited to tour the ship during her visit to the Buzzards Bay campus.

Hours for free public boarding will be on July 3-5 from 12:00-5:00. (Video and photo on right by David G. Curran)

The 376-foot long, four-masted barque is the world's second largest

Dusty Rhodes, organizer of Sail Boston stated that the visit would be part of their Sail Massachusetts initiative to invite tall ships to the Commonwealth coastal communities before their arrival in Boston.

Barque Kruzenshtern (shown here in an earlier photo at sea) is part of the Sail Boston event starting on July 8.

KRUZENSHTERN is 376-foot in length, four-masted barque rig, and the second largest traditional sail training vessel in the world still in operation.

The ship was built in 1927 as PADUA in Bremerhave, Germany, and was given to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation after World War II.

She was renamed KRUZENSHTERN after the early 19th century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann Krusenstern (1770-1846).

Since 1990 the vessel has been used as a sail training vessel by the Baltic Academy in Kalingrad, Russia and is supported by Tall Ship Friends, a non-profit organization in Hamburg, Germany.

Sail Boston

There are three dozen tall ships coming to Boston next week, see the list with photos here.