Barken Viking at the Gothenburg harbor.
The Viking better known under her Swedish name as Barken Viking is a four-masted steel barque which was built in 1906 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark.
She came permanently to Gothenburg in 1950 as a home for different shipping institutions and later as a school of seamanship. Today she is moored in the Gothenburg guest harbour as hotel “Barken Viking”. The owner is Liseberg amusement park.
There are only ten four-masted barques and one four-masted full-rigged ship (the Falls of Clyde) in existence and only five of these still sail and because of the low bridges that separate the tall ship from the open sea it’s hard to believe she will sail the seas ever again.
