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to the Bremen Quay on 7 October. “We are quite satisfied with the shipyard’s repairs and we are happy that No. 5 Elbe can return to Hamburg. The reconstruction of the interior and rigging, as well as the equipment, will be carried out at the Bremen Quay,” reported Markus Söhl, a member of the board of the Hamburg Maritime Foundation, which owns the vessel. In other big news from Germany: The barque Peking was given a hero’s welcome as she returned to the city of Hamburg after three years of extensive restoration work. On 7 September, Peking was towed from the Peters Shipyard in Wewelsfleth to her provisional berth on the Bremen Quay at Peking hamburg maritim
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out, the copper plating was reattached with bronze nails. The schooner was returned to the water in September and towed back
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We are happy to report that the schooner No. 5 Elbe is back in the water. The vessel, made famous for the thirteen voyages she made under the leadership of Captain Warwick Tompkins under the name Wander Bird, was severely damaged by a collision with a container vessel in June of last year. The schooner was taken to the Hvide Sande Shipyard in Denmark for repairs. The copper plating around the point of impact in the bow was removed to assess the damage to the frames, keel, and keelson. Once the necessary repairs were carried
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Hamburg’s current Port Museum, welcomed by a flotilla of tugs, fireboats, private watercraft, and historic vessels. The Hamburg Maritime Foundation turned over ownership of the 1911 Blohm + Voss ship to the Hamburg Historical Museums Foundation; she will be the flagship of the planned German Port Museum, projected to be completed in 2025. (https://shmh.de/ en) … The 1936 Nantucket Lightship LV-112 has entered dry dock in Chelsea, Massachusetts, for its next phase of restoration. Last year, the US Lightship Museum (USLM), owner of the lightship LV112, received two matching grants that will go towards restoring the vessel’s interior structural components, critical to maintaining the integrity of the ship’s hull so that it can remain open to the public. $487,500 comes from a Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Park Service, and the matching grant is a $575,000 Community Preservation Act grant from the City of Boston. Upon her relaunch, 75% of the planned restoration will have been completed. Nantucket LV-112’s shipyard work is being performed at the historic Fitzgerald Shipyard in Boston Harbor— adjacent to the former US Lighthouse SEA HISTORY 173, WINTER 2020–21