Reconstruction of the frame for a Bulgarian sailing 3 mast schooner ship built of wood 1943-1947

Model made by Zhivko Lipchev. Naval Museum Varna, Bulgaria

As example was the Goryanin used, which was the largest ship built of wood in Bulgaria. Built at the Strandja Cooperative Union shipyard with a Tsarevo base between 1943-1947. Used as cargo ship and later transferred to the navy as training ship named Vaptsarov at Varna. In the 1980s handed over to the Bulgaria n Volunteer Organisation forAssistance in Defence and renamed Patriot. Later converted into a restaurant, sunk in 1993 in the Varna Bay and after nearly 12years were in 2005 the remaining parts salvaged and since 2008 exhibited in a museum at Tsarevo.