Alma Doepel

The Alma Doepel

AK 82

Traditional Ship

IMO: 5011884

Alma Doepel is the name of the last remaining square-rigger in Australia.

History

Launched and technical data

The Alma Doepel was designed as a wooden three-masted topsail schooner, 1903 at the shipyard in Bellingen (New South Wales) and was named the daughter of the founder, Frederick Doepel. She received an extremely flat hull with two swords means fore and aft, as they thought she was around from the beginning for the coastal trade in the shallow waters around Australia.

Early years

By 1917 Alma Doepel was for their client and owner in Australian coastal waters and on the way transported mainly timber and wool. In 1917 she was sent to Henry Jones Ltd.. sold, a then famous jam factory, and perverse to 1937 as part of the Mosquito Fleet between Hobart in Tasmania and Melbourne. For three decades, the record runs the Alma Doepel were almost proverbial.

Intermezzo in the military

In 1937, the ship was tired in places converted to motor vessel and made 1942 the Australian Navy as AK 82 available. During these years she was stationed in New Guinea.

Back to Tasmania

After the war, the Alma Doepel returned to Hobart back, was re- rigged there to the pole mast schooner and wrong from then on their regular route Hobart Melbourne. In the 1960s, it was between Southport (Australia) and Electrona ( Tasmania ) used in the limestone transport.

Comeback as a training ship

1976 bought the Sail & Adventures Ltd. Victoria laid in the harbor of Electrona saver and rebuilt it for school purposes to ship topsail schooner. Since then, the sailors serves as a training ship for the maritime offspring of Australia. Your home ports are traditionally Hobart and Melbourne. Your crew is 11 men and 40 cadets.