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Unlike the Sea Cloud, the Sea Cloud II is a newbuilding. The contract for her construction was awarded to the Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondán, SA. The keel laying was held there on 24 June 1998. [1] The rigging was planned and produced by Navicom in Wolgast. The 23 sails were made in Poland. Sea Cloud II was launched on 18 March 1999. [1]
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.
Roscoff is a town situated on the north coast of Finistère, Brittany. Its favorable position at the western end of the channel along with the efforts of the economic administrators have allowed the port to survive and develop itself within the different fields surrounding the sea. Amongst the 13 main Breton ports, Roscoff is one of the largest ...
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]
Eleanor Creesy (September 21, 1814 – 1900) was an American navigator, who was the wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy, skipper of the Flying Cloud which set the world's sailing record for the fastest passage between New York and San Francisco in 1851. They beat their own record three years later, and it remained a record until 1989.
Sailboats and Estuary (also The Entrance to the Port of Roscoff, French: L'entrée du port de Roscoff) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Belgian srtist Théo van Rysselberghe. Painted around 1887, it shows a coastal landscape elaborated in a Pointillist technique.
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The actress helped inspire the look for the famous logo, one of several actresses ordered by Columbia Pictures to pose as Miss Liberty, for which she was only paid $25. (Photo: Tim Boyle ...