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Sunday 7 February 2016

Russian frigate Shtandart in imaginary battle with French frigate La Grace


The original Shtandart was laid down by the Dutch ship carpentr Wybe Gerens on 24 April 1703 at the Olonetsky shipyard ordered by the Russian czar Peter the Great. At the end of the 20th Century was a replica built, anno 2016 still in service. In recent years she was in two Dutch movies including the one dealing with the life of the Dutch 17th admiral Michiel de Ruyter. Russia-flagged, MMSI 273452840 and call sign UAEM. In 2015 she visited Vlissingen and was berthed in a small dry dock to be entered via the Dokhaven dating from begin 18th Century. Czar Peter the Great was familiar with this area when he visited this town.

Czech Republic-flagged, homeport Prague, Czech Republic and MMSI 270467000. Replica of which the building started in the end of 2008 on a Egyptian shipyard at Suez while supervised by constructor Daniel Rosecky and captain Josef Dvorsky, launched on 5 December 2010 and which was baptized on 1 May 2011 at Athens, Greece. Described as a second half century brig. Dimensions 23,8 (between perpendiculars)-32 (over all)  x ? x 2,8 x 25 (height) metres and a tonnage of 126 tons burthen. The original La Grace was the name of the frigate commanded by the Czech seaman Augustin Herman (1621-1686) who in his professional career served for the Dutch West Indies Company, afterwards as a privateer on Spanish ships and finally becoming the largest tobacco exporter of America