The Carthaginian served as a museum (from a postcard of Lahaina Harbor, sometime before 1972).
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History | |
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Name | launched as Wandia |
Completed | 1921 |
Out of service | 1964 |
Fate | Sold to Tucker Thompson, converted to square-rig whaleship and acquired by Lahaina Restoration Foundation c.1966–67 |
History | |
Name | Carthaginian |
Owner | Lahaina Restoration Foundation |
Acquired | 1966 |
Fate | Ran aground and sank, April 2, 1972; scrapped in situ |
General characteristics | |
Type | Three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler |
Length | 130 feet (40 m) |
Beam | 22.5 feet (6.9 m) |
Height | 90 feet (27 m) above waterline to top of mainmast |
Draft | 9 feet (2.7 m) |
Propulsion | 185 horsepower (138 kW) diesel for maneuvering in port |
Sail plan | 17 sails, 10,000 square feet (930 m2) |
Carthaginian was a three-masted barque outfitted as a whaler that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in Hawaii. Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted schooner Wandia, she was converted in 1964–1965 into a typical square-rigged 19th-century whaler for the filming of the 1966 movie Hawaii. Afterward, she was moored in the harbor of the former whaling port-of-call of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, explaining the whaling industry in the Hawaiian islands. Carthaginian was lost in 1972 when she ran aground just outside the harbor on her way to drydock maintenance on Oahu and was replaced as a whaling museum by Carthaginian II in 1980.