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The Sea Cloud II is a square-rigger with fore-mast, main-mast and mizzen-mast. The top of her main-mast is 57 m (187 ft) above deck. The top of her main-mast is 57 m (187 ft) above deck. Her 23 sails have a total area of approximately 3,000 m 2 (32,000 sq ft).
Sea Cloud is a sailing cruise ship owned by Sea Cloud Cruises of Hamburg, Germany.Launched as a private yacht as Hussar V for Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1931, she later served as a weather ship for the United States Coast Guard and United States Navy during World War II, when she became the U.S. military's first racially integrated warship since the American Civil War. [1]
Olpenitz (Danish: Olpenæs) is a part of the town Kappeln in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, at the mouth of the Schlei firth to the Baltic Sea.. From 1964 until 2006, Olpenitz was the site of one of three major naval bases of the German Navy in the Baltic Sea.
Here's your rare chance to inhabit the seafaring world of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Here, what it's like to sail the Mediterranean on the Sea Cloud yacht.
Founded by Australian businesswoman Sarina Bratton in early 2004, Orion Expedition Cruises began cruising operations in March 2005 with the repositioning cruise of the MV Orion from Papeete, Tahiti in French Polynesia to Sydney, Australia via the Cook Islands, Samoa, New Caledonia, Fiji and Lord Howe Island.
List of shipwrecks: 5 June 1942 Ship State Description Akagi Imperial Japanese Navy World War II: Battle of Midway: The Akagi-class aircraft carrier, a converted Amagi-class battlecruiser, was bombed and damaged in the Pacific Ocean off Midway Island by Douglas SBD Dauntless aircraft based on USS Enterprise ( United States Navy), with the loss of 268 of her 2,000 crew.
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SV Mandalay is a three-masted schooner measuring 163.75 ft (49.91 m) pp, [2] with a wrought iron hull. It was built as the private yacht Hussar (IV), and would later become the research vessel Vema, one of the world's most productive oceanographic research vessels.