SHIP NOTES, SEAPORT at Kiel in Germany in 1921 for the F.A. Vinnen Company of Bremen . Unlike Padua, she was built with a diesel auxiliary. She sailed in the grain trade from Rio de la Plata, with some nitrate voyages, until the early 1920s when she became a regular in the Australian grain fleet. In 1936 she was bought by the North German Lloyd Steamship Company and converted to a cargo-carrying schoolship under the name Kommodore Johnsen . Along with Padua, she was awarded to the USSR as reparations after World War II. New construction added two major square-rigged training vessels to the schoolship fleet this year: the Polish Dar Modziezy, a steel full-rigger launched at Gdansk last November to replace the 73-year old Dar Pomorza (which will now become a mu se um s hip); and the Cuauhtemoc, a steel bark launched at Bilboa, Spain, also in November, for the Mexican Naval Academy in Vera Cruz.
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The return of the schooner Ernestina, exEjjie M. Morrissey (1894) to New Bedford, Massachusetts, has been reported elsewhere in these pages, as has the first sailing from Galveston, Texas since 1886 of the iron bark Elissa (1877) . Progress in the restoration of the Cape Horn square rigger Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum, New York , continues under the direction of the American Ship Trust Friends of Wavertree Chairman Jakob lsbrandtsen. Work accomplished to date this year is at about 50 percent of estimated cost, thanks to donated products and services. The emphasis is on authenticity in the work: canvas hatch tarpaulins, for example, are handsewn aboard from flax imported from Arbroath , Scotland (see also my report on the search for the ship's artifacts, this issue). Those wishing to pitch in, in the spirit of the Friends' motto- "Dirty work, long hours, no pay" -are invited to apply to American Ship Trust, 15 State Street, New York NY 10004. This summer saw the launching at Portsmouth, New Hampshire of the latest addition to the cruise schooner fleet : the steel-hulled, 76-foot Homer W. Dixon, owned by Doug Greason and Pegeen and Michael Muhlhern, who will operate the schooner on Lake Champlain. The tug Dolomite (1927), ex-Rogers City, listed in our survey (SH25) as a steam vessel, has now been converted to diesel and returned to service as the Chippewa of the Seaway Towing Co . based at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan . TheEdna G. (1896), last steam tug working on the Great Lakes, has SEA HISTORY, WINTER 1982/ 83