THE FLAGSHIP of Gustav Erikson, an important Finnish shipowner, the Herzogin Cecilie, as she is to-day, has a gross tonnage of 3,111. The vessel is used as a training vessel for young Finnish sailors. Her first charter under the Finnish flag was to carry a cargo of timber from Fredrikstad to Melbourne in 1922.

Herzogin Cecilie was a German-built four-mast barque (windjammer), named after German Crown Princess Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886–1954), spouse of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1882–1951) (Herzogin being German for Duchess). She sailed under German, French and Finnish flags.

2010年12月19日 · Probably the very last of these ships to be wrecked on the south coast of England was the Herzogin Cecilie, or as she was more affectionately known, the Duchess. She was a four masted steel barque built by Rickmers of Bremerhaven in 1902 as a school ship for the North German Lloyd Line, and was 314 feet long with a gross tonnage of 3242 tons.

4 masted Barque "Herzogin Cecilie", built in 1902 at Bremerhaven by Rickmers for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Built as a training ship, she had an enormous poop of 194' and carried a big spread of canvas. She was steered from a midships wheel and is …

The steel four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie was one of the last of the great sailing ships that continued to trade successfully up until the 1930s. Launched as a cargo-carrying cadet ship for the Nord Deutscher Lloyd steamship company in 1902, she was built and fitted out to the highest standards as a floating ambassadress for the Germany of ...

In April 1936 the famous Finnish Windjammer Herzogin Cecilie, affection-ately known as the Duchess, ran aground in Soar Mill Cove. She had just completed a fast passage of 86 days from Australia to Falmouth and was the winner of the annual Australian grain race. The next 86 days were a struggle for survival as attempts were made to salvage her.

A chance encounter with Herzogin Cecilie at Ostend in 1920 led Erikson’s commodore master, Captain de Cloux, to purchase the vessel for £4250. The ship continued its educational mission and trained sailors not only from Finland but also from …

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2010年10月25日 · I found this post through a google search when I was researching the Herzogin Cecilie. My great grandfather saild aboard this vessel when emigrating to Port Lincoln, South Australia in 1925. His name was John (Yohan) Michael Karlsson and he came from the Åland Islands, Finland and was a boat builder.

2022年5月20日 · The Herzogin Cecilie was a very remarkable sail freighter, and a classic piece of the end of working sail in the Atlantic. While she is gone, her model is one to follow, and even with modern technology and knowledge, might be hard to beat.