Pallada

Russia’s Pallada training barque, one of the world’s tallest ships, has dropped anchor at its home port of Vladivostok after returning from a Pacific voyage during which it visited South Korea, China, Vietnam and Japan. Training along side with young Russian sailors aboard the Pallada are students from China and Singapore. The vessel will sail off on another voyage on June 14.

A RUSSIAN ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific more than 3000km from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said yesterday. The Russian training ship STS Pallada had found the debris after passing the central Pacific island of Midway, the International Pacific Research Centre at the University of Hawaii said. The debris - which was more than 3000km from Japan - was washed into the Pacific by the giant tsunami waves that struck the country's northeastern coast after a devastating earthquake on March 11. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/tsunami-boat-adrift-in-pacific/story-fn84naht-1226168012929

The Russian tall ship Pallada reached the harbour of Canadian port of Victoria, which is known to be a sister-city of Russia’s Khabarovsk. The tall ship set out on July 1st on an expedition that’s dedicated to the discovery of Russian America by Russian sailors 270 years ago. The Pallada has already been to Alaska and is now about to call at a third port on its route along North American lands that Russian sailors and path breakers discovered and developed in the middle of the 17th century.