Zebu is the world’s first tall ship with the electric motor. Built 82 years ago in Sweden, it has a wooden brigantine of Baltic Trader design. It was a part of the Operation Raleigh international student training expedition and had sailed around the world from 1984-88 for the same. It is now anchored in Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool.
It was built in 1938 at the A B Holms shipyard in Råå, Helsingborg, Sweden to transport cargo such as timber, paper, and iron ore around the Baltic Sea. During the...
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