Built as a wooden three-masted fore-and-aft schooner yacht by Camper & Nicholsons, Gosport, U.K. for Colonel MacGreggor, Somerset, Great Britain.
November 1887 launched as the AMPHIRITE named after the wife of Greek god Poseidon.
Tonnage 110.84 grt, 61.6 net, dim. 44.33 x 5.70 x 3.70m. (draught), length bpp. 29.00m.
At that time she carried sails of about 1,300 m²
McGreggor used after delivery the yacht for regattas.
1893 Sold to Sir Frederick Willis, London he used this yacht also for regattas.
1899 Was the owner Alfred Henry Littleton, London and she sailed in the Dover to Helgoland Regatta.
1900 Was the owner A Spence Hitchman, Dorset U.K. and she was renamed in DOLORES.
1906 The Fifth Earl of Harewood, Henry Ulick Lascelles, Leeds was the owner.
1911 Sold to George Hamilton Fletcher, Dorset who renamed her in JOYFARER.
1914 Sold to Henry Peech, London who renamed her in HINEMOA.
1915 Engines installed, two 8-cyl. Paraffin engines hp?
1919 Sold to Lancelot W. Dent, London who installed a radio telegraphy sender, call sign KMRS.
1921 Lt. Älla Molgneux Berkeley Gage from Falmouth bought the yacht, who renamed the next year her again in AMPHITRITE.
1925 The engines were changed for two 4-cyl. Paraffin engines hp?
1937 Sold to Lt. Colonel Arthur Jocelyn Gare, 6th Earl of Arran, Cornwall.
1939 Sold to Lt. Colonel A.G.Arundel Evans, Dartmouth.
1942 The British Admiralty took over the yacht and she was used in Plymouth as a barrage balloon carrier for protecting against air attacks, at that time her rigging was removed.
1944 Laid up by Chadder Blancs yard in Salcombe.
1946 Sold by the British Admiralty to Geoffrey Blundell, Salcombe
1947 Sold to Colonel W.F.Charter from Salcombe and the yacht was restored by Camper & Nicholson, the rigging was not replaced.
Then the owner used the yacht as houseboat at Salcombe from 1950 – 1955.
1955 Was she sold to Intermar Trading Co. Ltd., Salcombe and rigged in a three masted fore-and-aft schooner.
From 1957 used as yacht by the new owner Clive P.B. Stevenson, Salcombe in the Mediterranean. In 1958 was she sold to Bertil Harding, Sweden
1964 Sold to John Lennart Ostermann who lived in Stockholm and San Remo, the yacht was renamed in AMPHITRITE AF STOCKHOLM.
Two new engines installed, Volvo Penta each 95 hp and she was re-rigged in a barkentine.
1966 Sold to François Spoerry, Mulhouse, France and again renamed in AMPHITRITE. She was used by him for his sailing school.
1969 Was she bought by Horst Film GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, till 1971 underwent the yacht a complete overhaul in Toulon and Travemünde to make her suitable for film work, her engines were replaced by two 6-cyl. Mercedes diesels each 230 hp, and two auxiliary 6-cyl. Mercedes diesels each 110 hp. A deckhouse fitted on and sail and rigging changed, carried then around 750 m² sail.
1971 Transferred to Amphitrite-Schiffahrts-KG, Berlin, and was she used for the German movie “Graf Luckner” a 26 part tv series, and the tv movie “das Geheimnis der MARY CELESTE” ( the secrets of the MARY CELESTE).
1973 The Verein Clipper-Deutsches Jugendwerk zur See e,V (Clipper DJS) got interested in the yacht and she sailed to Germany from the Mediterranean, during the passage home she was caught in a mistral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral_wind in which she was severe damaged and her foremast broke.
1974 She was bought by the society Clipper DJS for 500.000 DM. and till 1976 was she repaired and converted to a training ship by the Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven. Re-rigged again in a fore-and-aft schooner. Sail area reduced to 534 m². Has accommodation for 29 persons.
01 May 1976 was her maiden voyage for the new owner Clipper DIS as training vessel, she is mostly used from May to October mostly in the southern Baltic.
From winter 2004 till spring 2006 she underwent an overhaul.
Since 2007 is she takes part in the Kieler Woche (Kiel Regatta) and since 2009 at the Hamburger Port Festival.
2015 In service, same name and owner. Her homeport is Hamburg.
Sierra Leone 2015 le6.000 sg?, scott?
Source Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen and various internet sites.