B+W photo of Op Sail tall sailing ships as seen from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, July 4, 1976
Entry/Object ID
2012.016.0020
Description
Black-and-white photo of Operation Sail tall sailing ships as seen from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, July 4, 1976.
6-1/2" high x 8-1/2" high print. Photograph taken by Steve Andrascik (typewritten caption and credit taped to reverse.)
Operation Sail (or OpSail or Op Sail) was part of the celebration of the United States Bicentennial, the 200th anniversary of the adoption (or signing) of the United States Declaration of Independence.
There were only 16 of these sailing ships in this parade and three are seen here. The ship at the left is the Christian Radich, from Norway (see notes for detail.) The other two have not been identified.
The elevation of this view suggests it could have been taken from atop a building rather than from the look-out at Castle Point.
Caption by the photographer: Tall Ships as they proceed down the Hudson in front of Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, 7/4/76. Steve Andrascik
(Andrascik was a photo-journalist; he is known to have worked for the newspaper, The [Newark] Star-Ledger. He was in his mid to late teens at this time and this would have probably been doing this as a freelance photographer.)
Acquisition
Accession
2012.016
Source or Donor
Martinez, Arturo & Pat
Acquisition Method
Gift
Credit Line
Gift of Arturo & Pat Martinez.
Made/Created
Artist
Andrascik, Steve
Date made
1976
Place
Location
Hoboken
Dimensions
Height
8-1/2 in
Width
6-1/2 in
General Notes
Note
Notes: As found 2012 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Radich
Christian Radich is a Norwegian full rigged ship, named after a Norwegian shipowner. The vessel was built at Framnæs shipyard in Sandefjord, Norway, and was delivered on 17 June 1937. The owner was The Christian Radich Sail Training Foundation established by a grant from an officer of that name.[1]
The vessel is a full rigged three masted steel hull, 62.5 m long, with an overall length of 73 m including the bowsprit and a maximum width of 9.7 m. She has a draught of about 4.7 meters and a displacement at full load of 1050 tons. Under engine power, the Christian Radich reaches a top speed of 10 knots, while she can make up to 14 knots under sail.[2]
The crew is 18 all together. It can accommodate 88 passengers. The Christian Radich is well known through the international release in 1958 of the Cinemiracle widescreen movie Windjammer. The Christian Radich sailed to the United States in 1976 as part of the Bicentennial Celebration, and partook in the Operation Sail parade in New York Harbor on 4 July 1976. The ship also appeared as herself in the 1970s BBC TV series The Onedin Line, as one of James Onedin's ships.
The vessel was built for training sailors for the Norwegian merchant navy, and did so for many years. From 1999 and on, the ship has been on the charter market as well as sailing with paying trainees to foreign ports on summer trips, participating in the Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Race and large sail events in various European ports. She won on corrected time in Class A and overall the tall ship in total in 2007, and became the only class A vessel that crossed the finish line.
Christian Radich won the first race of the Tall Ships Race 2010 in Class A, from Antwerp to Skagen in Denmark, a distance of 787 km (489 mi) just under 2 days with an impressive average speed of 10.2 knots, with the corrected time of 1 day 4 hours 29 minutes and 44 seconds, and won the over all race 2010, making this its 5th victory in the Tall ships Race
Original or Copy: Original
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-03-29
