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Moshulu at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia
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History | |
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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 |
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Displacement | 7,000 ts (1,700 ts ship + 5,300 ts cargo) |
Length |
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Beam | 46.9 ft (14.3 m) |
Height | |
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 |
Propulsion | wind |
Sail plan | 4.180 m²; 34 sails: 18 square sails, 3 spankers, 13 staysails |
Speed | highest recorded: 17 knots (31 km/h) |
Boats & landing craft carried | four lifeboats |
Complement | max. 35 |
Crew | 33 (captain, 1st & 2nd mate, 1 steward, 29 able seamen)[citation needed] |
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.