Trujillo, Dominican Republic - Vera Cruz, Mexico - Havana, Cuba - New York City, United States - Oslo, Norway - Helsinki, Finland Seventh voyage (10 October 1937 – 12 May 1938) Helsinki, Finland - Funchal, Madeira - Montevideo, Uruguay - Tristan da Cunha - Cape Town, South Africa - Calais, France - Helsinki, Finland Eighth voyage (27 October 1938 – 23 April 1939) Helsinki, Finland - Bordeaux, France - Casablanca, Morocco - Recife, Brazil - San Juan, Puerto Rico - Ponta Delgada, Azores - Rotterdam, Netherlands - Helsinki, Finland An exhibition prepared by the Finnish Export Society was carried on three voyages. General characteristics SuomenJoutsen is a steel-hulled full-rigged ship with three square rigged steel masts. Both main mast and bow mast have six yards, the longest ones being long and weighing four tons, while the mizzenmast has five yards. The height of her main mast, which consists of three parts, is from the waterline. The sail area of SuomenJoutsen is and three sets of sails, each weighing three tons, were carried on training voyages. Her standing and running rigging consist of over of manilla ropes and steel cables. The typical sailing speed of SuomenJoutsen was around , but once in the North Sea she reached a record speed of with only topsails and the foresail. The overall length of SuomenJoutsen is . Her hull is long at the waterline, has a beam of at midship and depth of to main deck. When she was carrying cargo, her tonnage was 2,393 register tons gross, 1,734 register tons net and 3,100 tons deadweight. The ship drew of water when loaded, but as a school ship she sailed with a ballast draft of only . With 1,200 tons of stones as sailing ballast, her displacement was 2,900 tons and metacentric height . Later some of the stone ballast was replaced with concrete and iron. Internally her hull was divided into five watertight compartments. When SuomenJoutsen was converted to a school ship for the Finnish Navy, her general arrangements were changed considerably in order to accommodate up to 180 men on long international voyages. In addition to living quarters, bathrooms and toilets, this included building kitchens and six refrigerated rooms for provisions, workshops for a carpenter, shoemaker and tailor, laundry room, hospital with ten beds and a small isolation ward, classroom, library, canteen, and more storage space for sails, ropes, paint, sand and