Joseph Conrad (ship)
The Joseph Conrad at her berth in mysticism
The Joseph Conrad is a museum ship in Mystic Seaport. It was originally built in 1882 as a sail training ship of the Danish merchant fleet.
History
When Georg Stage
The ship was commissioned in 1882 by the Danish Shipowners Carl Frederik Stage. She was a Foundation ( " Georg Stages Minde " Nyholm, Copenhagen) Stages and his wife Thea. The name Georg Stage recalled the deceased only son of Stages, the age of 22 died of tuberculosis in 1880. The aim of the Foundation was the training of the young sailor of the Danish merchant fleet on the sail training ship. The construction resulted from the shipyard Burmeister & Wain in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen. 1882 as one of the smallest full- rigged ships of his time with simple sailor Mars and Bramrahen and Royals (4 yards per mast ) was put into operation. On board use of a simple auxiliary steam engine was built with around 50 HP in order to give the trainees boys an insight into this area of marine technology can. The Georg Stage led a crew of about ten sailors and 80 cadets of the merchant fleet by six-month training cruises in the North and Baltic Seas. In 1905 the ship was sunk by a collision with the steamer Ancona of Leith near the mid-ground sand bank in the Øresund, 22 young sailors were killed. The ship was salvaged, repaired and made safer by the installation of Scots. The steam engine was replaced in 1915 by an auxiliary diesel engine with 60 hp. In 1934 the ship was replaced by his successor of the same name, as it had become too small for the training program. In his service more than 4,000 cadets were trained on the first Georg Stage.
When Joseph Conrad
Although there were plans to scrap the 52 years old ship, it was found in the Australian Navy Captain Alan Villiers and author ( 1903-1982 ), however, a sailing enthusiast buyers. Villiers named the ship after the famous British naval captain and author Joseph Conrad and traveled with her in the next two years some 58,000 nautical miles around the Earth. Again this young sailors were trained. These trips processed Villiers in the three books of The Cruise of the " Conrad " (1937 ), Storm -Along (1937) and Joey Goes to Sea ( 1939).
1936 acquired George Huntington Hartford Conrad, had to install a new engine and used the ship to 1939 as a private yacht. Under Hartford's aegis the ship, both the outward and the return journey won a Rahseglerrennen of the United States to Bermuda from the Seven Seas. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Hartford was the Joseph Conrad on to the United States Maritime Commission, which continued until 1945, used the ship for training cadets. By 1947, the ship was on before it was transferred by the U.S. Congress in the possession of the Mystic Seaport.