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The Dar Pomorza is a Polish sailing frigate, currently preserved in Gdynia as a museum ship.
She was laid down on 18 September 1909 as the German training ship Prinzess Eitel Friedrich. In 1919 she was seized by the French and renamed Colbert.
In 1929 she was bought by the community of the Polish Pomerania for 7000 GBP, as the new training ship for the Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia. She was given the name Dar Pomorza, which means "the gift of Pomerania".
During the following years, she was used as the training ship, receiving a nick-name "White Frigate". In 1934- 1935 she traveled around the world. During the World War II she was interned in Stockholm, after the war she returned to Poland.
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