Swan fan Makkum is a brigantine, built in 1993 in the Gdansk shipyard, Poland.

Named for Willem Sligting, Makkum, christened by Hinke de Vries, co-owner and wife, in a multilingual fashion: English, Polish and Frysian and after the ceremony launched in the river Wisła.

She has crossed the Atlantic Ocean 18 times and has passaged in 2007 over 300,000 miles (480,000 km) since she was built.

She has made regular appearances at major sailing events around the world and competes in at least part of the Tall Ships Race series every year.

The ship was during building full equipend with GMDSS radio equipment for sea-area A3 and 2 main gensets from 40 kW each and an auxiliary genset in the foxhole Swan fan Makkum was sold February 6, 2006 to Italy and renamed Italia.