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Moshulu at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia
History
German Empire
Name
Kurt
Namesake
Dr. Kurt Siemers
Owner
G. H. J. Siemers & Co., Hamburg
Route
Europe to Chile and Newcastle, Australia
Builder
William Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow
Cost
£36,000
Laid down
1903
Launched
18 April 1904
Christened
18 April 1904
Completed
June 1904
Maiden voyage
June 1904 via Santa Rosalía to Valparaíso
Homeport
Hamburg,
Fate
Seized by the US as enemy asset
United States
Name
Moshulu
Route
(US) Manila, Australia, South Africa
Acquired
1917
Out of service
1928
Homeport
San Francisco
Fate
Sold to Finland, 1935
Finland
Name
Moshulu
Route
Australia to Europe grain trade
Acquired
1935
Decommissioned
1970
Out of service
1940
Reinstated
1935 as a cargo ship, 1948 as a grain store
Homeport
Mariehamn, Naantali
Fate
Capsized and demasted 1947, sold to the United States, 1970
United States
Name
Moshulu
Acquired
1970
Reinstated
1975 as a restaurant
Homeport
Philadelphia
Status
Museum ship/restaurant ship
General characteristics
Class and type
four-masted steel barque
cargo ship, fl. warehouse, restaurant ship
Displacement
7,000 ts (1,700 ts ship + 5,300 ts cargo)
Length
396 ft (121 m) (overall)
359 ft (109 m) (on deck)
335.3 ft (102.2 m) (btw. perpendiculars)
Beam
46.9 ft (14.3 m)
Height
212 ft (65 m) (keel to masthead truck)
185 ft (56 m) (main deck to masthead truck)
Draft
24.3 ft (7.4 m) at 5,300 tons
Depth
28 ft (8.5 m) (depth moulded)
Depth of hold
26.6 ft (8.1 m)
Decks
2 continuous steel decks, poop, midshipbridge and forecastle decks
Installed power
no auxiliary propulsion; donkey engine for sail winches, steam rudder
Moshulu is a four-masted steel barque, built as Kurt by William Hamilton and Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original windjammer, she is currently a floating restaurant docked in Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, adjacent to the museum ships USS Olympia and USS Becuna.
Moshulu is a four-masted steel barque, built as Kurt by William Hamilton and Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original...
barque Moshulu during the vessel's last voyage in the Australian grain trade. In 1938 the 18-year-old Newby shipped aboard the four-masted barque Moshulu as...
the operational windjammers of the world. In March 1935, he purchased Moshulu, "one of the finest steel barques afloat", for only $12,000. By the late...
Newby, while he was crew in the 4-masted barque Moshulu, which anchored outside of Boston Island. Moshulu had taken 82 days to sail to Port Lincoln from...
Inaccessible Island on his 1938–1939 voyage from Ireland to Australia aboard Moshulu, as chronicled in his books The Last Grain Race and Learning the Ropes...
considerations and compromises. Usually the main mast was the tallest; that of Moshulu extends to 58 m off the deck. The four-masted barque can be handled with...
sank at sea in 2022 MV Ganga Vihar PS Lincoln Castle - defunct McBarge Moshulu MS Normac (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat...
Little Baby's Ice Cream The Love Max's Steaks McGillin's Olde Ale House Moshulu My Loup Old Original Bookbinder's Palumbo's Pat's King of Steaks Pizza...
Eric Newby chronicled the 1938 final voyage of the four-masted barque Moshulu in his book The Last Grain Race. The route sailed by a sailing ship was...
1938 when, at the age of 18, he apprenticed aboard the Finnish windjammer Moshulu and took part in the "grain race" from Australia to Europe by way of Cape...
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German Empire
United States
Finland