Schooner Santa Eulàlia

A three-masted schooner named Carmen Flores was launched from the beach of Torrevieja, Alicante, in January 1918. The vessel was operative for almost 80 years, during which it underwent various transformations and changes of name. Between 1928 and 1975 it was a sailing boat with an auxiliary engine, successively sailing under the names of Puerto de Palma and Cala San Vicenç. In 1975, the ship’s name was changed to Sayremar Uno, and it was used as an auxiliary vessel for underwater work. Then in 1997 the vessel was bought at auction by the Museu Marítim de Barcelona.
With this purchase the Museum carried out one of the most important and difficult tasks in its history – to recover and restore a historic vessel in accordance with the strictest criteria of cultural heritage protection.
The schooner Santa Eulàlia (as it has been renamed) is the flagship for the Museu Marítim de Barcelona, and it is now an ambassador for the city and the country throughout all the seas of the world. It is also central to all kinds of educational programs and pedagogical and citizen-based activities related to our sea.
In 2011 the Generalitat of Catalonia’s Cultural Heritage Department declared the schooner Santa Eulàlia to be an item of National Cultural Interest.