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Malta: Johnny Bray took this picture of the Black Pearl in which its made as a luxury restaurant were its located at Yacht Marina at Ta' Xbiex. Black Pearl was built in Pukavik, Sweden in 1909 and is one of the last surviving wooden trading schooners. Her long and chequered history has spanned two world wars, the development of technology and huge changes in the sea-faring world. The Black Pearl, originally called the Black Opal, has a hull constructed from two layers of thick seasoned oak and three stout ninety-foot masts, which rise from her deck. At one hundred and fifty feet in length she was made to penetrate the Baltic ice floes in the cold winters and survive the strong Scandinavian winds. It was made for trading missions the Black Pearl carried loads of nearly four hundred tones, usually grain, coal, and wood, to remote areas of Norway and Sweden.
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