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{{Short description|1906 four-masted barque}}
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|Ship image=[[File:Viking SLV AllanGreen c.jpg|300px|Viking under the Danish flag, between 1906 and 1929]]
|Ship caption=''Viking'' under the Danish flag, between 1906 and 1929
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|Ship country= Denmark Finland Sweden
|Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|Denmark|civil}} {{Shipboxflag|Finland|civil}} {{Shipboxflag|Sweden|civil}}
|Ship name= ''Viking''
|Ship namesake=
|Ship owner=* Den Danske Handelsflaadens Skoleskib for Befalningsmænd AS, [[Place:Copenhagen|Copenhagen]] (1906-1915)
*De Forenede Dampskibs AS, Copenhagen (1915-1929)
*Gustaf Erikson, Mariehamn, Finland (1929-1950)
*City of Gothenburg, Sweden (1951-present)
|Ship builder=Burmeister & Wain, [[Place:Copenhagen|Copenhagen]], Denmark
|Ship original cost=[[Finance:Danish krone|DKK]] 591,000
|Ship launched=1 December 1906
|Ship maiden voyage= 19 July 1907
|Ship in service=1907
|Ship out of service=1950
|Ship identification={{IMO Number|5618148}}
|Ship status= Floating hotel<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.barkenviking.com/|title=Hotell Barken Viking|work=barkenviking.com|year=2012|language=sv|access-date=31 July 2012}}</ref> / museum
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Ship type= [[Engineering:Barque|Barque]]
|Ship displacement= ~{{convert|6300|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}
|Ship length=* {{Convert|108|m|ftin|abbr=on}} ([[Engineering:Length overall|o/a]] with [[Engineering:Bowsprit|bowsprit]])
*{{convert|97|m|ftin|abbr=on}}  (deck)
*{{convert|87|m|ftin|abbr=on}}  ([[Engineering:Length between perpendiculars|p/p]])

|Ship beam= {{convert|13.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship height= {{Convert|55.5|m|ftin|abbr=on}} (foremast above deck)
|Ship draught={{Convert|7.33|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship depth= 
|Ship hold depth= {{convert|8.1|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
|Ship sail plan=*[[Engineering:Barque|4 masted barque]]
*Sail area {{Convert|3690|m²|abbr=on}}
|Ship speed= {{convert|15.5|kn|lk=in}}
|Ship capacity=* Cargo hold: {{Convert|6300|m³|abbr=on}}
*Cargo capacity: {{convert|4100|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}
*Ballast:  {{convert|1400|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}}
|Ship notes=Anchor weight : {{convert|3|t|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} each
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'''''Viking''''' (also known by the ship type as a prefix, '''Barken Viking''') is a four-masted steel [[Engineering:Barque|barque]], built in 1906 by Burmeister & Wain in [[Place:Copenhagen|Copenhagen]], {{wipe|Denmark}}. She is reported to be the biggest sailing ship ever built in Scandinavia. In the 21st century her sailing days have drawn to a close, and she is now moored as a [[Engineering:Botel|botel]] in Gothenburg, Sweden.

==Ship history==
''Viking'' was originally built as a sail training ship for the rapidly growing Danish merchant fleet. At that time, seaworthiness and cargo capacity were given top priority. One day in July 1909, while carrying a full cargo of [[Biology:Wheat|wheat]] from {{wipe|Australia}}, Captain Niels Clausen recorded a speed record in the ship's log: {{Convert|15.5|kn|lk=in}}. 

On 25 February 1917, she was sighted and boarded by the German commerce raider {{Ship|SMS|Seeadler|auxiliary cruiser|2}}. Unusually, the Germans then allowed her to proceed because being Danish, she was a neutral ship. This was something of a lucky escape, because within weeks Germany would return to unrestricted marine warfare, a policy that would have meant the ship's definite sinking.

In 1929 she was registered under the Finnish flag, and joined the Åland-based Erikson fleet of tall ships. She was part of Erikson's fleet until 1950. Viking was about to be scrapped in the late 1940s, but was eventually saved by the Swedish government in 1950 and moored in Gothenburg. A suspension bridge built in the late 1960s has effectively locked the ship in, since the masts are taller than the bridge. It is unlikely she ever will sail the open seas again.
In January 2021 she was partially demasted to be able to pass under Älvsborgsbron. Early on January 24 2021 she was towed to Falkenberg by tug boats Svitzer Thor and Svitzer Bob. 

She participated in several of the Great Grain Races from Port Victoria, South Australia to Falmouth, Cornwall. ''Barken Viking'' won the Grain Race of 1948. David James was an apprentice on her voyage around the world in 1937-38, which is described in his biography. <ref> Robson, J.,(1998, One Man in his Time. </ref> David Robb Muirhead  (1921-78) wrote a diary and took photos of his voyage on the Viking as a working passenger in 1948, which records are held in the State Library of South Australia.
[[File:Barken viking gothenburg 20051011.jpg|thumb|left|Four-masted "Barque ''Viking''" at Lilla Bommen, Gothenburg, in 2005]]
There are only ten four-masted barques and one four-masted full-rigged ship (the ''[[Engineering:Falls of Clyde (ship)|Falls of Clyde]]'') in existence, and only five of these still sail (''[[Engineering:STS Sedov|Sedov]]'', ''[[Engineering:Kruzenshtern (ship)|Kruzenshtern]]'', ''Sea Cloud I'', ''Nippon Maru II'', ''Kaiwo Maru II''). A few more are still afloat and berthed in various harbors (''[[Engineering:Peking (ship)|Peking]]'' ([[Place:Hamburg|Hamburg]]), ''[[Engineering:Moshulu|Moshulu]]'' (Philadelphia), ''[[Engineering:Passat (ship)|Passat]]'' ([[Place:Lübeck|Lübeck]], Germany), ''[[Engineering:Pommern (ship)|Pommern]]'' (Mariehamn, Finland), ''Nippon Maru'' (Yokohama, Japan), and ''Viking'').

''Viking'' came to Gothenburg in Sweden permanently in 1950, as a home for various shipping organizations, and later became a school of seamanship. Today it is moored at Lilla Bommen as hotel "Barken Viking". The owner of the hotel  is ESS Hotell AB.

Finnish artist Lena Ringbom-Lindén, one of a few females on board a ship at that time, sailed on ''Viking'' on one of its voyages to Australia. She wrote of her experience in two books, ''Flicka på skepp'' ("Girl on Ship") and ''Skeppet och Lena'' ("Lena and The Ship").

==Cargoes==
''Viking'''s cargos:
* Cement – Denmark
* [[Earth:Coal|Coal]] – [[Earth:Europe|Europe]]
* [[Earth:Guano|Guano]] – [[Earth:South America|South America]]
* [[Chemistry:Salt|Salt]] – {{wipe|Germany}} ([[Place:Hamburg|Hamburg]])
* Soya beans – {{wipe|Russia}} (Vladivostok)
* [[Earth:Rock (geology)|Stone]] – {{wipe|Norway}}
* Timber – Sweden (Sundsvall)
* [[Biology:Wheat|Wheat]] – {{wipe|Australia}}

==See also==
*Grain race
*[[Engineering:Moshulu|Moshulu]]
*[[Engineering:Pommern (ship)|Pommern]]
*[[Engineering:Tall ship|Tall ship]]
*[[Engineering:Windjammer|Windjammer]]
*Gustaf Erikson
*[[Engineering:Botel|Botel]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
<!-- *[http://www.liseberg.se/ Liseberg] - Official site -->
*[http://www.barkenviking.com/ Official site of Barken Viking]
*[http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Viking%281907%29.html/ Ship data of Barken Viking]
*[https://www.higab.se/vara-hus/barken-viking/ Ship's history]

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[[Category:Barques]]

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