Carthaginian (ship)

The Carthaginian served as a museum (from a postcard of Lahaina Harbor, sometime before 1972).
History
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.