Elissa (ship)
The ship as Fjeld
- Fjeld
- Gustaf
- Christophoros
- Achaeos
- Pioneer
The Elissa is a built in Scotland in 1877 barque ( sailing ship) and is now a museum ship at The Seaport Museum in the United States.
History
Active service time
The ship was launched on October 27, 1877 for the Liverpool shipowners Henry Fowler Watt as Elissa at the shipyard Alexander Hall & Company in Aberdeen, Scotland to water. Watts operates the ship until 1897 and then sold it to the Norwegian shipping company Bugge & Olsen, renaming the sailors in Fjeld. After a sale to Sweden in 1911, 1912 reached the Fjeld to Carl Johansson from Kalmar, who umtauft to Gustaf. At the end of the First World War, the Gustaf is umgeriggt to Barkentine and provided with their first engine. It was not until 1930 that Gustaf is passed again, this time to Finland. The new owners let the ship umtakeln to the schooner, and in 1936 installed a new engine, a new deckhouse attach with bridge on the quarterdeck and shorten the stem. In 1959, the Gustaf find new Greek owners who give her the name Christophoros. Two years later, the Marine archaeologist Peter Throckmorton discovered the ship in Piraeus. In 1964 undertook Karl Kortum from the San Francisco Maritime Museum first steps to save the ship. After the Christophoros was renamed in 1967 in Achaeos and 1969 in Pioneer, Throckmorton Kortums received permission to purchase the ship for the San Francisco Maritime Museum.
As a museum ship
In November 1970, the museum acquired the Pioneer for $ 14,000. Two years later the sailors initially by David Groos from Victoria, British Columbia is acquired for a Canadian group before leaving for U.S. $ 40,000 goes to the Galveston Historical Foundation in 1975. In 1977, a restoration team travels to Piraeus to make the ship that had received back the name Elissa is seaworthy. After they had replaced about a quarter of its iron hull and again provided with a clipper stem, joined the Elissa 1978 under tow to Gibraltar, where they rested the winter of 1978-79 with the Royal Navy shipyard. Also in 1978 they took the ship in the National Register of Historic Places on - as the first object that was located outside of the U.S. jurisdiction. On July 20, 1979, Elissa finally met in Galveston, where she was on August 4th of this year officially received. On 4 July 1982 the first sailing trip was undertaken in the Gulf of Mexico after completion of restoration. In the following period the ship is taking more trips and received numerous awards for the successful restoration and the associated group of volunteers. It then also further adaptations to modern safety standards were made. Since 1991, the Elissa is considered a National Historic Landmark, in October of the year opens the Texas Seaport Museum. In 2000, following an award as one of "America 's Treasures " ( America's treasures ) by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and on June 18, 2005 Appoints Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, the tall ship Elissa the official Texas '.