 In 2007 an extended conversion to a sail-training ship was completed.Built in 1948 in Le Havre, France, "Pelican" was originally a double-beam Arctic fishing trawler, one of five identical ships built in Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, the shipyard founded by the Normand family.She was sold to a Norwegian firm and spent the next 19 years fishing the Arctic.