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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]
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]
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 ...
Lands' End's Memorial Day swim sale extended: Save up to 60% with free free shipping We've been shouting about Memorial Day sales for a week now and even though the long holiday weekend is behind ...
Venus's Bathing (Margate) A woman swimming in the sea; in the background people are looking out to sea from cliffs and a beach. The lettering says;Side Way or any Way.
In August 1926, a 19-year-old New Yorker named Trudy Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Only five men had finished the 21-mile trek from Cape Gris-Nez in France to ...
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.