Zygmunt Choren
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Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology
Gdansk University of Technology
The Gdańsk University of Technology is a technical university in Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz, and one of the oldest universities in Poland. It has nine faculties and more than 24 thousand undergraduate, as well as about 400 doctoral students...
and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute.
List ships that have been designed or redesigned by Choreń:
- 1980 – STS PogoriaPogoria (ship)STS Pogoria is a Polish barquentine launched in 1980 in Gdynia. She was designed by Zygmunt Choreń.-History:On 7 July 2009, two of the masts on Pogoria broke at welded joints while the ship was en route to St Petersburg, Russia. The 37 youths onboard were airlifted off the ship by two helicopters...
- 1982 – Dar Młodzieży
- 1982 – ORP Iskra II (1982)Iskra (disambiguation)Iskra was a 1900–1905 communist newspaper. Iskra may also refer to:Products* ISKRA lasers, used for laser fusion experiments at VNIIEF Russia...
- 1984 – STV KaliakraKaliakra (Tall ship)The Sail Training Vessel Kaliakra is a barquentine, built in 1984 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, after the plans of the Polish technical designer Zygmunt Choreń. She is a property of Bulgarian Maritime Training Centre and is operated by Navigation Maritime Bulgare, Bulgaria...
- 1985 – RV OceaniaRV OceaniaRV Oceania, or SY Oceania, is a tall ship, owned by the Polish Academy of Sciences, and used as a research vessel.She was built in 1985 in the Gdańsk Shipyard in Poland, after the design of Zygmunt Choreń. The hull was based on plans of earlier tall ships: ORP Iskra II and Pogoria, but its rigging...
- 1987 – Druzhba
- 1987 – STS MirSTS MirSTS Mir is a three-masted, full rigged training ship, based in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was built in 1987 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. It is one of the fastest modern sailing ships....
- 1988 – Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von Humboldt (ship)Alexander von Humboldt is a German ship originally built in 1906 by the German shipyard AG Weser at Bremen as Reserve Sonderburg. She was operated throughout the North and Baltic Seas until being retired in 1986...
- 1989 – KhersonesKhersones (ship)The Khersones or Chersones is a Ukrainian three-mast tall ship, a full rigged ship. It was built in 1989 in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland, in a series of six sister ships , after the designs of Zygmunt Choreń...
- 1989 – Pallada
- 1991 – Nadezhda
- 1991 – STS Fryderyk ChopinFryderyk Chopin (ship)-History:The ship was designed by Zygmunt Choreń, named in honour of the early to mid 19th century Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin, and launched in 1992 in the Dora Shipyard, Gdańsk, Poland. She was chartered for a year by West Island College in Nova Scotia to expand their Tall Ship educational...
- 1991 – STS KaiseiKaisei (ship)The STS Kaisei , meaning “Sea Star” in the Japanese language, is a steel-hulled brigantine designed by Zygmunt Choreń. It was built in Gdańsk, Poland in 1987...
- 1995 – Estelle
- 2000 – SV Royal ClipperRoyal ClipperRoyal Clipper is a steel-hulled five masted fully rigged tall ship used as a cruise ship. She was designed by Zygmunt Choreń, and built using an existing steel hull that was modified by the Gdańsk Shipyard, and the Merwede shipyard completed the ship's interior in July 2000...
- 2002 – Mephisto
- 2008 – Mały Książę
See also
- Naval architectureNaval architectureNaval architecture is an engineering discipline dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures. Naval architecture involves basic and applied research, design, development, design evaluation and calculations during all stages of the life of a...