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Ex-Kurt,
Finish Barque.
A four-masted barque built of steel in 1904 by W. Hamilton & Co., Port
Glasgow, Scotland, as the Kurt for G.J.H. Siemers & Co., Hamburg. The hull was of the tree-island type and she was rigged with royals over double
top-gallant sails. Her dimensions are 102,2x14,3x8,1 m [335'3x46'9x26'6] and
with a tonnage of 3109 GRT, 2875 NRT and 5300 DWT.
Sister ship to the same owner's four-masted barque Hans built in the same
year.
1904 April 20
Launched at the shipyard of W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow, Scotland,
for G.J.H. Siemers & Co., Hamburg.
1914
Laid up in the port of Astoria at the outbreak of the First World War.
1917
Confiscated by the United States and renamed Dreadnought.
1917 September 18
Renamed the Moshulu when it was discovered that there already was another
Dreadnought registered in the US.
1917-1920
United States Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation. Sailed with cadets
for the American Shipping Board.
1920
Sold to the "Moshulu Navigation Co. (Charles Nelson & Co.)", San Francisco.
1922
Bought for $ 40.000 by Charles Nelson
1928
Laid up in Los Angeles, later to be moved to Lake Union, Seattle, and finally
to Windslow, Washington.
1935 March 14
Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn, Finland, for USD 12.000 and put on the
Australia-Europe wheat trade.
1940 April 9
Arrived to Norway at the same time as the Germans were occupying the country.
Laid up in Kristiansand during the rest of the war.
1942 March - July
Used as an accommodation ship by the Germans.
1942 November
Towed from Kristiansand - Horten, where she was de-rigged.
1947 September 18
Drifted during a storm, grounded, foundered and sank.
1947
Bought for $ 20.000 by Gisken Jacobsen and J.P. Skotnes, Narvik
1948 May
Salvaged, and bought by Tryggve Sommerfeldt, Oslo.
1948
Sold to Sweden.
1952
Sold to Hans Schliewen, Hamburg, for his fleet of sail training ships but
never delivered.
1953
Bought by Svenska Landmines Riksförbund, Stockholm, to be used as a grain
barge.
1961
Bought by the Finnish government to be used for grain storage in Nådendal.
The price was 3200 tons of Russian rye.
1970 May
First bought by Disneyland, California, and then sold to an American
consortium called Specialty Restaurants. Towed to New York after having been
re-rigged with phony masts and spars in Amsterdam.
1971
After a year at the South Street Seaport, New York, she was moved to Philadelphia , PA, to be outfitted as a restaurant.
1989
A fire in the galley caused the restaurant to be closed.
1990
Moved to the New York Ship Company pier, Camden.
1994
The masts was removed prior to planned breaking up of the ship.
1996 May
Moved back to Pier 34, Philadelphia, after repairs and rebuilding. Will be
re-opened as a restaurant.
The Moshulu is the world's largest and oldest four masted sailing ship still
afloat, the 3,116 ton vessel was launched in Scotland in 1904, she was named
Kurt by her German owners. During the first world war she was captured by
American forces and renamed Moshulu which is an Seneca Indian name which
means fearless.
The Moshulu had a vast and varied sailing history, sailing 54 times around Cape Horn, 28 people have lost their lives aboard her, could it be possible that these
sailors still walk this haunted ship? In 1989 while being used as an
restaurant on the Philadelphia waterfront, a four alarm fire broke out on the
Moshulu, gutting out the interior, 11 million dollars were invested into
restoring the ship, turning it into a centerpiece of luxury, but no matter of
money could chase the unseen inhabitants of this old ship.
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