 DDDA then offered the Department of Defence use of the ship as a training vessel for free (as a replacement for the sunken "Asgard II"), but the offer was turned down.The Department of Defence declared the "Jeanie Johnston" unsuitable because of her lack of speed, her required crew size of 11 and her inability to participate in tall ships races.No alternative operator was found until mid-2010, when Galway-based company Aiseanna Mara Teoranta was appointed to operate the ship as a museum.