SV Tenacious

SV Tenacious at the starting line for the last leg of the STI Historical Seas Festival 2010 from Istanbul to Lavrion.
History
United Kingdom
Name	Tenacious
Owner	Jubilee | Sailing Trust (Tenacious) Ltd
Builder	Jubilee Yard (Merlin Quay), Southampton
Laid down	6 June 1996
Launched	3 February 2000
Commissioned	1 September 2000
Out of service	December 2023
Identification	IMO number: 1005679 MMSI number: 235000230 Callsign: ZQHM2
Status	Operational
General characteristics
Tons burthen	586 tons
Length	54 m (177 ft) hull, 65 m (213 ft) including bowsprit
Beam	10.6 m (35 ft)
Draught	4.58 m (15.0 ft) in summer
Propulsion	Sails: 1,217 m2 (13,100 sq ft) Engines: 2x400bph
Sail plan	Barque (three-masted))
Speed	11 knots (20.37 km/h) under sail, 8 knots (14.82 km/h) under power
Complement	Permanent crew approx 11 (incl. 3 volunteers) Voyage crew up to 40 (50% of whom may be sensory impaired or physically disabled)

The SV Tenacious is a modern British wooden sail training ship, specially designed in the 1990s. When completed in 2000, it was the largest wooden ship to be built in the UK for over 100 years.