STS "Lwow" - the polish school sailship

Barque "Lwów" is the first training sailiship in Poland. It was built in 1869 in Great Britain at the “Birkhead shipyard”, where it served as a cargo-passenger frigate "Chinsura" until 1883, sailing to India and Australia. It was one of the first sailing ships with steel hull. When the frigate was sold to the Italians, it changed its name to “Lucco”. During a storm, the sailship was damaged and the Dutch owner bought it in 1915, changed the sailing equipment to a barque type and named the ship "Nest". Five years later the ship was purchased by the Maritime School, being established in the Polish city of Tczew. The barque has been converted into a training vessel, but some of the cargo holds have been left. Since “Lwow” had to earn its own living, travel routes depended on where the cargo was to be delivered. The barque's most famous voyage took place in 1923-1924 to Brazil and back. At that time, the ship was commanded by the navigational officer Mamert Stankewicz - the hero of Karol Olgierd Borchardt's famous book "Means captain". "Lwów" sailed until 1929. When the functions of the training ship were taken over by the frigate "Dar Pomorza", in 1930 the barque was transferred to the Navy, where it served as a hulk. Despite the fact, that the idea was raised to save "Lwow" as a museum ship, the hull was handed over for dismantling in 1938.

A fairly large and complex, but well detailed and designed model of a sailing training ship for intermediate to advanced modelers.