REGINA MARIS 1908 Tall Ship

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REGINA MARIS 1908 Tall Ship

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:00 pm

She was built as a wooden hulled 3-masted topsail schooner by J. Ring-Andersen at Svendborg, Denmark for P Reinhold of Råå, Sweden.
Launched as the REGINA.
Tonnage 173 gross, 63 net, dim. 30.48 x 7.62 x 3.08m.
She was strongly built, designed primarily for the arctic waters.
In the 1920s was she sold to O.B. Bengtson in Råå.
Around 1932/34 was she fitted out with a 2-cyl auxiliary engine manufactured by Bolinders, 49 nhp.
1932 Sold to Gustaf F. Edvardssen, Skarhamn, Sweden
1955 He was still the owner. At that time she had a new oil engine.
1962 She got a fire in the engine room which damaged the ship significantly.
1962 Bought by Siegfried and John Aage Wilson (Ocean Transport Lines) of Arendal, Norway, at that time she was laid up at Ystadt, Sweden.
She was thereafter converted at the Hoivolds Mek. Verksted A/S in Kristiansund for 299.000 Dollars in a brigantine rigged private yacht.
Tonnage 186 gross ton, 42.50 x 7.60 x 3.30 (draught), length of hull 35.00m, length bpp. 30.50m
Fitted out with an 8-cyl Caterpillar diesel of 242 hp.
She was renamed in REGINA MARIS. Homeport Valletta, Malta.

Wikipedia has on her: The sailing ship REGINA MARIS was originally built as the three-masted topsail schooner REGINA in 1908. She was a 144-foot (43.9-meter), wooden, completely fore-and-aft–rigged sailing ship with three masts. She was re-rigged in 1963 as a 148-foot (45.1-meter) barkentine. REGINA MARIS can reach a speed of up to 12 knots, especially on a half-wind course or with a fresh back-stay breeze.
Her original home port was Amsterdam as private yacht ??. Her classification was SI Z1234+, EU 98/18. Her length overall was 48 meters (157 feet). Her beam was 6.90 meters (22.6 feet), with a draught of 2.80 meters (9.2 feet). Her masthead height was 29.00 meters (95 feet). Her displacement was 280 tons with a gross tonnage of 153 tons. She was rigged as a three-masted topsail schooner with a sail area of 720 m² (7,750 square feet) across 11 sails.
Her main engine was an eight-cylinder Caterpillar 3408 that produced 365 hp (272 Kw). Her generators were a Mitsubishi 15 kW and a Lister Petter at 20 kW. Her bunker capacity for gas and oil was 12,000 liters (3,170 U.S. gallons; 2,640 Imperial gallons). Her bunker capacity for fresh water was 16,000 liters (4,227 U.S. gallons; 3,520 Imperial gallons).
Her speed under sail was 12 knots and under engine was 9 knots. Her passenger capacity was up to 80 passengers for short-term voyages and 36 passengers for overnight voyages. She had two two-passenger and eight four-passenger cabins.
History
REGINA was built to ply the Iceland-to-Baltic Sea codfish trade. The original wooden hull was completed in 1908, the 100th hull produced by the shipyard of J. Ring Anderson in Svendborg, Denmark.
On 15 February 1920, REGINA was discovered abandoned in the North Sea. Her crew was rescued by the Swedish steamer FRITIOF. REGINA was towed into IJmuiden, North Holland, Netherlands by the Dutch fishing trawler EENDRACHT II.
REGINA at one time was believed to have been involved in the rescue of Danish Jews during World War II, but this was later disproven.
Until 1963, the ship sailed under Swedish colors and was called REGINA, rigged as a three-masted topsail schooner. Following a severe fire in 1963, was she purchased by the Norwegian shipping magnates Siegfried and John Aage Wilson and converted to serve as the latter's private yacht. Rebuilt with a very tall three-masted barkentine rig for this purpose, the ship was renamed REGINA MARIS ("Queen of the Sea"). Between 1963 and 1984, she was used in many television and movie productions, conducted two global circuits, and underwent stints as a cruise ship, sail training facility, and marine mammal research vessel
For a number of years REGINA MARIS was docked in Gloucester, Massachusetts and was in the possession of the Ocean Research and Education Society (ORES) a local non-profit organization. She was used for day sails and short voyages as scientists and students sampled copepods in the Gulf of Maine, observed whales and other marine mammals but mostly for the pleasure of the Captain....... Volunteers could pay for acting as crew on short voyages and sampled life aboard an old wooden sailing vessel, including standing watch, sleeping in narrow bunks and climbing ratlines, the latter optional. When the organization ran out of money trying to keep REGINA seaworthy it is believed that she was sold to Anthony Athanas of Boston's Pier Four restaurant for use as a stationary party ship. One severely cold night with a loud crack she sank. Soon after she was purchased and raised by a group from Long Island that hoped to return her to seaworthy condition.
The vessel was saved from being scuttled by Captain Robert Val Rosenbaum and moved from Boston. Massachusetts, to Greenport, New York, where Rosenbaum founded the REGINA MARIS Foundation and began a restoration process with 70 local volunteers in 1991. Hurricane Bob hit the east end of Long Island in August 1991, and Captain Rosenbaum scuttled the vessel at her berth to save her from being destroyed by the storm and to prevent the destruction of the nearby historic waterfront buildings. After the storm, the vessel was raised by Captain Rosenbaum and sold for one dollar to facilitate the restoration effort by a newly formed nonprofit organization. During the next eight years the corporation raised money through donations in Greenport to restore the vessel, but the funds were misappropriated and never found their way into the ship.
The vessel was towed to Glen Cove, New York, in 1998 as part of a plan to revitalize the city′s waterfront. Plans to restore the ship were hampered by the discovery that she was not involved in rescuing Jewish refugees in World War II, as well as the economic impact of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The ship was chronically leaky and sank at the dock in 2002. Efforts to raise her in 2003 damaged her beyond repair. The deck, gunnels, deckhouse, bowsprit, masts, and rigging were preserved and set in concrete on the nearby esplanade

Timeline
Cargo schooner 1908–1963 (Commercial cargo years)
Private yacht 1963–1970 (Wilson years)
Cruise ship 1971–1973
Sail training and movie Set 1973–1976 (Willoughby years)
Research and sail training 1976–1984 (Ocean Research & Education Society)
From wharf-side attraction to ship's demise 1985–1990
Regina Maris Foundation and Hurricane Bob 1991
Save the Regina Maris (non-profit) 1992-1998

Source: Wikipedia. Lloyds Register, Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen.
French Polynesia 1974 15f sg184, scott ?
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