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Friday 8 December 2017

Brigantine Albatross (1920)

Model by Rudolf Teuber

Built by the navy shipyard at Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1920 as pilot schooner as the No. 2 part of 3rd District and as No. 3 of the 4th-5th District). Acquired by the German government in 1937 and used as a radio station ship for submarines in the Second World War. The Orion of the Lufthansa and Alk of Kriegsmarine? Used by the Dutch merchant shipping company Royal Rotterdam Lloyd as a training ship Albatross since 1949. Six years later acquired by Ernest K. Gann and rerigged as a brigantine and became in 1959 property of the American Ocean Academy again as training ship until she sunk on 2 May 1962 underway from Mexico to the Bahamas. With a displacement of 126,6 tons and as dimensions 21,95 (waterline)-27,35 (over all) x 6,55 x 3,20 metres. Sail area 371 square metres.