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Sunday, 16 December 2018

Maltese restaurant (ex-Black Opal 1909-, ex-Aeolus) Black Pearl


Ta‘Xbiex, Malta, 9 May 2018

The in 1909 at Pukavik, Sweden built oak wooden trading schooner Black Opal, later renamed Aeolus and Black Pearl. Sunk in 1976, salvaged in 1979, used for the film Popey in 1980, sunk in 1981 but salvaged and restored and finally converted into a restaurant in 1987. Able to load almost 400 tons usually grain, coals and wood in the area Norway-Sweden. Around 1959 modernized at Ramsgate, England departed she in December 1973 towards Melbourne, Australia to become a passenger ship in the South Pacific.