beSpacificImagine losing your rudder out at sea, and sending out a distress call, and then the largest #oceangoing #wooden #sailingship in the world comes to your #rescue. To our knowledge it is the first time that an east #indiaman, and the first time for #Götheborg to engage in such a #rescue. Now we also have the images, story from the #sailing #vessel that was rescued. https://www.gotheborg.se/news/rescue-of-sailing-boat/
Sailing boat rescued by the Götheborg | Götheborg of Sweden
Imagine losing your rudder out at sea and sending out a distress call. And then the largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship in the world comes to your rescue. Or in the words of the sailors on the sailing boat: "This moment was very strange, and we wondered if we were dreaming. Where were we? What time period was it?"