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A wooden barquentine launched 1952, built as part of the war reparations to the Soviet Union. Some 90 wooden schooners were built for the purpose, of 300 tonnes deadweight, tern-rigged and built for coastal trade or barquentines for use as schoolships, and at least one barquentine for research (a non-magnetic one). Vega was built at the Laivateollisuus yard in Turku, which developed new building techniques to allow efficient serial production. Vega served as school ship based in Tallinn. A sister ship has survived as restaurant in Klaipėda.
The factory closed down in 1998, nevertheless the yellow industrial building and its clock sphere on the roof remains one of Jakobstad's symbols.
The wooden old town.
The School Park is not just a park but a botanical garden with almost a thousand different plants and flowers.
A replica of an 18th century ship, built according to blueprints by the famous naval architect af Chapman. She was launched at time when Anders Chydenius of nearby Nedervetil forcefully advocated free trade and important restrictions on international trades were lifted.