Earl of Pembroke was a wooden, three-masted barque, which was frequently used for maritime festivals, charters, charity fund raising, corporate entertaining and film work.

History Early years Earl of Pembroke was built in Pukavik, Sweden as Orion in 1945 and used to haul timber in the Baltic Sea until 1974 when she was laid up in Thisted, Denmark.

Restoration She was moved to the UK in 1980 where her full restoration began in 1985. As part of the restoration, her rig was changed from the original schooner to barque type (to resemble the famous on which Captain Cook discovered Australia) and she was renamed Earl of Pembroke (HMS Endeavour was called Earl of Pembroke when she worked as a coal trader in the West Country).

The restoration was designed with festivals and film work in mind. The three-masted rig and the uninterrupted decks containing no superstructure or wheelhouse create the silhouette of a classic sailing ship so she needs only minimal work to get a period correct aerial or side shot. With some effort she can also be made to look like an old Spanish Galleon or steam-sailing ship from the age of the Arctic expeditions.

Post restoration (festivals and film) Following restoration Earl of Pembroke was used in the production of films and attended a number of festivals including: Brest Maritime Festival 2012 Milford Haven Festival - Seafair Heaven Gloucester Maritime Festival 2015 Southampton Boat Show 2015 Belfast Titanic Maritime Festival 2016 DelfSail 2016 Dublin River Festival 2016 London, UK - Sail Royal Greenwich 2016, 2017 Drogheda Maritime Festival 2017 Liverpool Maritime Festival 2017

She was used in the following films: Hornblower Series III Treasure Island A Respectable Trade Moll Flanders Beaumarchais, l'insolent Mary Reilly Cutthroat Island Shipwrecked Frenchman's Creek Shaka Zulu Longitude Wives and Daughters Count of Monte-Cristo L'Épervier, French television series Alice in Wonderland (2010 film) Cloud Atlas Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf)

Final destination Scrapped at Hoeben RDM Schepen in Kampen, on 2 December 2022

Sail Plan

Mizzen 35.8 Mizzen Staysail 19.9 Mizzen Topmast Staysail 29.8 Maincourse 86.6 Main Topsail 101.3 Main Topgallant 45.6 Main Staysail 40.6 Main Topmast Staysail 46.8 Main Topgallant Staysail 37.7 Forecourse 54.3 Fore Topsail 89.6 Fore Topgallant 44.9 Inner JIB 25.9 Outer JIB 29.0

Total sail area: 689 m2.

Gallery

References

Nils Nilsson: "Shipyards and Ship-Building at a Wharf in Southern Sweden". In: Ships and Shipyards, Sailors and Fishermen: Introduction to Maritime Ethnology by Olof Hasslöf, Henning Henningsen and Arne Emil Christensen Jr. Copenhagen, 1972.

External links

Earl of Pembroke Website BBC; Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass BBC; Cumbria Features Tall Ships - Earl of Pembroke Earl of Pembroke Facebook Page Metaco LLP - Earl of Pembroke Owners Bristol-Culture SouthWestBusiness Port of Milford Haven