European Tour
Year 2013
European Tour: the second summer
For the second summer in a row, Götheborg of Sweden headed out on a European Tour. During the four-month-long tour, the ship visited nine countries and fifteen cities around Europe. Among other events, the ship took part in the Tall Ships Race 2013 and the French maritime festival Lármada De Rouen, one of the largest maritime festivals in the world that are visited by over ten million people.
Highlights
On Monday, May 6, Götheborg of Sweden cast off and head out on the four-month-long adventure, European Tour 2013. During the summer the ship participated in everything from small festivals to royal celebrations.
During the tour, Götheborg attended several events including the National Day celebrations in Oslo and the 600-year anniversary celebration of the city of Landskrona.
On July 7, the Tall Ships Race started, the world’s largest international race for sail training ships. Over one hundred ships from all over the world gathered in Århus in Denmark for a joint departure to Falsterbo, where the start of the first race leg took place. Together with the Russian ship Shtandart the East Indiaman Götheborg conducted a unique naval battle that also was the inauguration of the Tall Ships Race festival in Århus. The entire race lasted a month and the finish line was in Szczecin in Poland.
Götheborg of Sweden arrived at her homeport of Gothenburg on September 7, after a very successful tour in Europe. Over 100,000 people visited the ship during the summer and the ship was the main attraction at several major maritime festivals throughout the four-month-long tour.