The world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, a replica of an 18th-century Swedish East India Company ship, Götheborg of Sweden, arrived in Valletta, Malta this week. The Götheborg is on its way to Asia, and Malta is the 12th stopover on the Asia Expedition 2022/2023.
The ship, in Valletta from 14th to 18th October, is moored at Valletta Waterfront and open to visitors during the stopover.
The ship will sail in Europe in 2022, stay in Barcelona during the winter, and continue to Asia in March 2023. In September 2023, the ship will reach the expedition’s end destination Shanghai.
The Götheborg left Gothenburg on 8th June 2022 and has since visited Helsingborg, Helsinki, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, London, Bremerhaven, Lisbon, Málaga, Nice and Monaco. The next stop after Valletta is Barcelona, the last stop on this year’s expedition.
Thanks to Alaric Bond for contributing to this post.
She’s hardly the “largest wooden sailing ship” claimed in the headline. CONSTITUTION and VICTORY leap to mind. Even if you include the additional “operational” qualifier listed in Wikipedia, once in while CONSTITUTION challenges that as well. Just wish it was more often. And I don’t imagine Götheborg has a hold full of trade goods, so is she truly operational?
Pedantry aside, it’s great that they all still exist.
Ah, but the description said ‘ocean-going’. The constitution and the victory are museum ships, not seaworthy ocean going vessels.
Now I have another reason to go to Barcelona again! Every time I’ve gone before the galley museum has been closed for one reason or another.