A REPLICA of Jersey’s most famous sailing yacht has sunk after being struck by a ship while in port in Spain.
Eleonora E – a copy of TB Davis’ 160-ft schooner Westward – went down within half an hour after being hit by a supply vessel in Port Tárraco in Tarragona.
According to Superyacht News, the captain of the supply vessel attempted to prevent the collision by stopping the main engines, which had become blocked, and anchoring the vessel with both anchors.
No one was injured in the collision.
Westward, bought by Davis – a businessman and philanthropist – in 1924, became regarded as one of the most beautiful examples of naval architecture to ever grace Channel Island waters.
During the following years he raced the vessel at Cowes against King George’s Britannia and other Big Class yachts.
Davis died in 1942 and five years later Westward was deliberately sunk in the Hurd Deep off Alderney.
Thousands of people turned out to see Eleonora when it visited Jersey in 2010.
Almost 100 boats gathered off Corbière and Noirmont while hundreds of others waved from the shores as Eleonora made her way into the Harbour under full sail.
