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The Barque Picton Castle is a three-masted tall ship based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada but best known for our sail training voyages around the world.

The Picton Castle is rigged as a three-masted barque, is 179 feet (55 m) long, and carries 12,500 square feet (1,160 m2) of sail. The ship displaces 300 tons. She has a 690-hp diesel engine for the times when sailing is not feasible. The ship has space for roughly 50 people, consisting of about 12 professional crew and 40 sail trainees.

The Picton Castle was originally built as a motorized fishing trawler in 1928. She was built along with four other trawlers for the same company and operated out of Swansea, Wales. The ship was named after the Welsh castle of the same name.

In August 1939, the Royal Navy requisitioned the trawler for use in World War II and refit her as a minesweeper. While sweeping mines near Norway, she made way for the port of Bergen for repairs. The Germans had just left Norway, and the sight of the Union Jack-bearing HMS Picton Castle earned her the title "The Liberator of Norway."

Following World War II, the ship was renamed Dolmar and worked as a freighter in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. During the early nineties, Daniel Moreland acquired the ship while seeking a vessel to convert to a barque and named her the Picton Castle.
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Camera location44° 22′ 29.44″ N, 64° 18′ 27.19″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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