Specification
- Name: GLADAN
- Class: B
- Nationality: Sweden
- Year built: 1946
- Home port: Karlskrona
- Rig: Schooner
- Height: 22.570439965693 m
- Length of hull: 46.701455929014 m
- Entered by: Royal Swedish Navy
About
Biography
The schooner HMSwS Gladan belongs to the Swedish Armed Forces and the main purpose of the ship is to help to train cadets.
The normal operational areas of the ship are the Baltic Sea and approaches, the North Sea and around the British Isles. Sometimes the area is extended to the southern parts of Europe such as the Mediterranean, the islands in the eastern part of the Atlantic, the West Indies and the United States.
Usually our trainees serve aboard for four weeks with at least one visit in a port in a foreign country. The training consists of seamanship and navigation in order to provide well-educated officers to the Swedish warships on duty in various places in Sweden and abroad.
In the summer time the ship is manned with younger trainees such as youths from colleges and the Sea Cadet Corps. Therefore, crews when participating in the Tall Ships’ Races normally consist of civilian trainees between the ages of sixteen to twenty. During summer months, officers from the Navy also sail with military cadets.
The ship was built as a sail training vessel by Stockholm Naval Shipyard in 1946 and has served in the Swedish Navy ever since. This year, in 2007, there will be a 60 year anniversary when the ship arrives in Stockholm together with the Tall Ships’ Races fleet.
