Astrid (brig)
STA: 420
The Astrid was a steel Dutch brig.
History
The Astrid was built in 1918 at the shipyard NV Scheepshelling Maatschappij Scheveningen, due to the critical economic situation after the First World War, but only sold in 1921. The buyer, Nicolaas Muller, equipped the ship with a two-cylinder Deutz engine and registered it as a cargo schooner under the name tantrum. 1924 assured the Germanischer Lloyd, the ship under the call QCSF with an unladen weight of 123 tons. 1934, the tantrum was umgetakelt to a logger and 1937 sold to a Swedish investor group rechristened the ship on its current name Astrid. In the following years the ship was mainly used to transport wheat, barley and sugar beet on the Baltic Sea. During the Second World War, the Astrid wrong with coal and wood between Sweden and Poland.
In 1957 the ship was rebuilt on the aft deck a poop and a new bridge was installed, and the old Deutz engine has been replaced by two Volvo-Penta -V virtual machines. More rigging was removed, there remained only the mainsail and the jib left. Seven years later, these last sails were removed, and the Astrid turned with a new three-cylinder engine with 180 hp Jonkopings in a purely motor-operated freighter.
In 1976, the freighter came into the hands of two Lebanese from Tripoli. During this time the ship's history, little is known about the use of Astrid, except that they shuttled between the Middle East and Sweden. Some years later, the Englishman John Amos found the abandoned hull of the ship in the mud of the River Hamble in Hampshire England. He took the laborious restoration, but it quickly went out the money for it. Fortunately, the former Navy officer Graham Nelson had been looking for some time for a ocean-going ship, which he could use for training rides with young people. After years of unsuccessful search all over the world, he finally met Amos, whose ship seemed tailor-made for Nelson's claims.
Finally, the Astrid was towed in 1984 to Poland, where a complete restoration was undertaken. Bob Casson and Mike Wiloughby needed four years to make the structure of the ship sails again. In October 1988, the Astrid was reborn as a classic brig with traditional rigging and ready for the first test run on the lake. Newly christened by the British King's daughter Princess Anne sailed the Astrid the next eight years, mostly with youthful occupation by the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. Under the Sail Training Association registration number TS 420, the ship participated in several Cutty Sark Tall Ships ' Races.
Financial difficulties prepared this time again to an end. In 1996, the Astrid broke in St. Vincent, to a Dutch investor group bought the ship and brought it back to Europe. The new owners brought the tradition of sailors after 62 years again under the Dutch flag and began a new restoration in 2000. Complete set, all technical systems and the drive were replaced. The traditional sails was thereby obtained.
2008/2009 drove the Astrid, together with the Johann Smidt, six months for the school project High Seas High School in the Caribbean.
The Astrid ran on July 24, 2013 in Kinsale on the south coast of Ireland on the rocky coast and sank. The Crosshaven Coast Guard rescued the 30 crew members. The wreck of the Astrid was recovered in September 2013. Due to the heavy damage suffered Astrid, the owner has decided to let that stop ship.