Ship preservation in Norway

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Ship preservation in Norway

• Major task
  to preserve a representative selection of
  vessels of great historical value - if possible
  as floating cultural monuments
• Term The
  term ship preservation (fartøyvern) has in Norway
  been used synonymous with preserving vessels
  longer than 30-35 feet in a floating condition.

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Ship preservation - history

• 1967 Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs
  first contribution to a ship preservation
  project - the schooner Svanen.
• 1977 Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs
  starts working on a report concerning
  ships preservation and a nation-wide
  registration of old vessels
• 1981 The Ministry of the Environment gets the
  responsibility for the co-ordination of
  the public involvement concerning ship
  preservation
• 1983 Separate item on the national budget

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Ship preservation - history

• 1985 The Norwegian Association for Ship
  Preservation (NFF) founded
• 1989 The Directorate for Cultural Heritage,
  which is under the Ministry of the
  Environment, gets the public responsibility
  for ship preservation
• 1995 The Directorate for Cultural Heritage
  prepares the Ship preservation plan
  1996-2000
• 1996 Three national ship preservation centres
  established
• 2001 A new ship preservation plan (2001-2006)
  will be prepared by the Directorate for
  Cultural Heritage

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National centres for ship preservation

• STEEL Bredalsholmen dokk og
  fartøyvernsenter - Kristiansand (south of
  Norway)
• WOOD Hardanger fartøyvernsenter -
  Norheimsund (west of Norway)
• WOOD Nordnorsk fartøyvernsenter og båtmuseum
  - Gratangen (north of Norway)

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Legal and other official means for ship
preservation

• Cultural Heritage Act 14a Protection of boats
  which are of particular historical value.
• Cultural Heritage Act 23 Without permission
  from the Directorate for Cultural Heritage boats
  older than 50 years may not be exported
• Declaring vessels as worth preserving ship. To
  get this label the owner has to follow
  antiquarian guidelines
• When receiving financially support, the owner has
  to follow antiquarian guidelines.

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Ship preservation economic support from the state
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170 preserved vessels
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170 preserved vessels major categories
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170 preserved vessels categories and parts of
the country
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Ship preservation economic support from the state