On June 2, 2016 in Sevastopol the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maksim Sokolov examined Khersones sailing ship and greeted the ship crew and cadets of Admiral Ushakov State Maritime University.

Maksim Sokolov wished the cades to overcome all the difficulties of sea service with dignity.

He noted that for the last 10 years the sailing ship had not went to sea and had actually been deteriorating.

“A year ago the vessels’ renascence began”, – he pointed out.

The Minister presented to the sailing ship crew an icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which has long been considered the patron saint of sailors, and also commemorative clock.

Currently, repair is being completed on the vessel and then a practical training of cadets is planned.

During the capital repairs of the vessel, systems and ship mechanisms fault detection, dock repair, replacement of deck flooring, repair of electrical equipment, masts and yards, surface and underwater parts of the body, painting have already been carried out.

Khersones Sailing Training Ship was laid in Gdansk shipyard (Poland) in 1987, in 1989 it was launched.  The frigate is built according to the prototype of sailing ships of the early XX century and has a complete sail rigging of the “ship” type. 26 sails are controlled only by hand and provide the main vessel’s movement.

Today, the vessel is the only sailing ship in the world, which in 1997 reached Cape Horn under sail.