FISH RESTAURANT "MERIDIANAS" in Klaipeda – FOR ELEGANCE AND LOVERS OF GOOD TASTE The restaurant “Meridianas” opened its doors to visitors in December 2014 at a unique place on the Dane River quay, in the reconstructed sailing boat “Meridianas”. The wooden Finnish barquentine was built in 1945, and was used for many years as a training ship for Klaipeda Maritime Academy cadets. Later, the ship was transferred to the Klaipeda canteens, restaurants and cafeterias trust and became a symbol of the port city. In 1994, the barquentine was privatized, but after a few years was sold for the symbolic price of 1 litas and transferred to a Fund created for the supplier of the “Meridianas” sailing ship – a symbol of the nautical city, Klaipeda. At the beginning of October 2012, the Head of the Fund at the time applied to the Government requesting permission to sink the ship in Lithuanian territorial waters.
