RV Oceania
 RV Oceania
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| History | |
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| Builder | Gdańsk Shipyard, Gdańsk |
| Launched | 1985 |
| Homeport | Gdańsk |
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| Status | Operational |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 370 GT |
| Length | 48.9m |
| Beam | 9.0m |
| Height | 32.0m |
| Draught | 3.8m |
| Propulsion | Diesel, 816 hp with controllable pitch propeller, bow thrusters 70 hp, 430 m2 sails on 3 masts |
| Speed | 6 kn on sails, 13.5 kn on engine |
| Endurance | 1 month |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 2 inflatable outboards |
| Complement | 13 crew, 14 scientists |
RV 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 was different. Oceania was originally a full-rigged ship, with three masts (each 32 metres high). On every mast there was only one sail, in the shape of a vertical rectangle (sometimes Oceania was classified as a frigate), but later the yards and the sail from the mizzen-mast were removed. Sails are raised and driven hydraulically.
The ship is equipped with laboratories able to provide hydrographic, optic, acoustic, chemical, biological and particulate experiments and observations.