Travel Guide
Gift of Pomerania
"Dar Pomorza" (Gift of Pomerania), called the White Frigate, has been associated with Gdynia since 1929. She was built in 1909 in the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg as a training ship for the German merchant maritime school. The frigate was given to the State Maritime School in Gdynia and became the second (after the "Lwow") cradle of Polish navigators.
Within her 51 years in the school "Dar Pomorza" took 102 school cruises, covering half a million sea miles. 13 384 students of the Maritime School were trained on her decks. On 4 August 1982 the "Dar Pomorza" was formally removed from school operations, and at the same time a flag was raised on her successor "Dar Młodziezy" (the Gift of the Youth), designed and built in Gdansk. On 16 November 1982 "Dar Pomorza" was given to the Polish Maritime Museum.
Address: Al. Jana Pawla II, Gdynia
Opening hours:
Mondays – Sundays – 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tickets:
8 PLN – normal
4 PLN – reduced [Museums & Galleries]
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