Étoile du Roy
Étoile du Roy, formerly Grand Turk, moored in Dunkirk, France. | |
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Grand Turk |
| Owner | Turk Phoenix Ltd. |
| Laid down | December 1996 |
| Launched | September 1997 |
| Fate | Sold, 2010 |
| France | |
| Name | Étoile du Roy |
| Owner | Étoile Marine Croisières |
| Port of registry | Saint-Malo, Brittany |
| Acquired | 2010 |
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| Status | in active service, as of 2019 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Tall ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draught | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion |
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| Sail plan |
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| Speed | 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (engines) |
| Crew | 9 permanent + up to 23 volunteers |
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Étoile du Roy (English: "King's Star"), formerly Grand Turk, is a tall ship launched in 1997. Designed to represent a generic European warship during the Age of Sail, her design was modelled after HMS Blandford, a sixth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. The ship was built in Marmaris, Turkey between 1996 and 1997 to provide a replica of a British frigate for the production of the ITV Network series Hornblower. In 2010, the French company Étoile Marine Croisières, based in Saint-Malo, purchased the ship and renamed her Étoile du Roy. Having been featured in several films or television series, she is currently used mainly in sailing events, for corporate or private charter, and for receptions in her spacious saloon or on her deck.