Built as a wooden three-masted training vessel by Herd & Mackenzie, Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland for the Dulverton Trust in Buckie.
07 September 1971 launched as the CAPTAIN SCOTT, named after the polar explorer Capt. Robert Falcon Scott.
Displacement 380 tons, 265 gross, 55 net. Dim. 52.10 x 8.50 x 4.70m., length bpp. 36.60m. draught 4.50m.
Topgallant schooner rigged.
Auxiliary engines, two Gardner diesels, 230 hp. each.
Accommodation for 6 crew, 3 instructors and 36 trainees.
She was built of Scottish oak and pine from Uruguay
1971 Completed.
Maiden voyage under command of Capt. Victor Clarke.
She sailed thereafter mostly in British homewaters, did not only give nautical training but also the trainees made excursion expeditions in the mountainous Scottish countryside.
1977 Sold to Sultan Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman, and she was renamed SHABAB OMAN what means Youth of Oman. Managed by the Ministry of Youth in Oman
First officers from Britain or Germany were employed supported by Officers from Oman.
1979 Commissioned in the Oman Royal Navy as a sail training vessel.
1984 She underwent a refit, and her rigging was altered from schooner rig into a barkentine.
Sail area 1020 square meters.
1992 Took part in the Gran Regatta de Colon the race from Seville to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Over the years she has taken part in numerous international regattas and historic voyages, and had visited at least 30 countries.
2009 Still in service as training vessel.
Oman 1986 100b sg 324, scott ?, the other ship on this MS is the SULTANA see index for her details.
Source: Wikipedia. Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen.