All rights reserved. After just 9 voyages, fulfilling the roles of both cargo ship and training ship, the 'København' disappeared without a trace during a voyage from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Adelaide sometime in December 1928. Scale model of København.
In the morning we left and sailed over to germain Bay where we dropped anchor close to 'Bolivia.' Germain Sunday 13 January This image has no known copyright restrictions. diesel engine was installed.
known to sailors then are not necessarily well known to us now.
'SS Deucalion,' tanker 'Panama' and 'SS Beltana' also participated in the hunt.
Eight days into the voyage, the skipper sent out a message to a Norwegian steamer William Blumer saying “All is well.” The Norwegian vessel tried contacting København once more, and at that point, everybody knew that nothing was well.
article about New Year's Day at Port Germein, in 'The Recorder' of January 4th, 1924:
the arrival of the ship, which never came. Germein Monday 14 January After coffee time we tidied up. In July 1930, the crew of an Argentine freighter sighted a five-masted “phantom ship” during a gale. She had no cargo but sailed with ballast. It seems amazing that you would build a new place specifically for 10 real mysteries that no one has ever solved! THE KØBENHAVN ON THIS PAGE The Ship Cadet 1 Diary Cadet 2 Diary Voyages The Unclaimed Letter. The København, the largest sailing ship built in a British yard, a five master, arrived at Port Germein on New Year's Day, 1924 and stayed until January 15th, 1924. Germain Saturday 12 January The letter bears a 1928 julemaerke,
It’s sails stood over 5 stories high. Sadly that didn't happen and it was lost for many years before being found in this badly degraded
Last July I covered the mystery of the Danish school ship København, one of the largest sailing ships ever built at a staggering 430-feet long and 4,000-tons. On December 22 the København exchanged radio messages with the Norwegian steamer William Blumer, indicating they were about 900 miles from Tristan da Cunha and that “all is well”.
The photo belonged to Millicent Spencer, Robyn's Aunt and a long time resident of Port Germein. We respect your privacy and will never share your email address with any person or organization. Copyright © 2017 Learning History. In the morning we pulled up anchor and sailed in to the long jetty, which is 1 1/2 miles long. All was well.
They should have some cheaper but tasteful and relevant souvenirs. The diaries are written in cursive and quite difficult to translate in places because of handwriting style, The København arrived at Buenos Aires on November 17, 1928. We started loading from a steamer that had been next to us since morning.
THE KØBENHAVN ON THIS PAGE The Ship Cadet 1 Diary Cadet 2 Diary Voyages The Unclaimed Letter. Around 9 o'clock we finished loading. Port Germein Thursday 10 January "Evergas were innovative.They didn't just design a standard ship - they thought about what we wanted to achieve, and they designed something brand new that has never been done before".
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From its maiden voyage until 1928, København managed to complete nine full voyages and even circumnavigated the globe twice. SHIP-AHOY by Odeon-Orkester København. The ballast tanks were emptied. The Danish tanker, 'Mexico,' searched, funded largely by relatives of the missing men.
We were at school from 3.30 to 5.00. A search party was sent out, but nobody ever found anything of the world’s largest ship. I was polishing the light houses. Sightings were reported from over the world.
False Bay Tuesday 1 January 1924
for Mr Vin Irwin. The townspeople entertained them, and I remember The Kobenhavn was built for the Danish East Asiatic Company in 1921, When it was launched it was the world’s largest sailing ship.
On January 21, 1929, it was reported that a five-masted ship was spotted but that one of its masts was broken. I really felt the need to revisit all the information about the They received reports that a large five-masted ship with its foremost brokenness as seen on January 21, 1929; however it had not attempted to come inland. Phantom Ship: The world is filled with mysteries – to say nothing of the Universe. False Bay Sunday 30 December 1923 Noel Smith was able to get a copy. The goal was to unload a shipload of chalk and bagged cement in Buenos Aires, take on another load of cargo and sail for Melbourne, and then bring a shipment of Australian wheat back to Europe. The aft deck was being sand scrubbed, the brass polished and the deck was I was on the motor boat that pulled the hawsers in.
The East Asiatic Company was slow to react believing that its wonderful, strong ship would prevail.
We were polishing brass in the morning. Atlantic Shipping A/S, founded 1986, is a firm of international shipbrokers specialized in sale and purchase of fishing vessels and other vessels above 25 meters. In the afternoon I continued painting.