Moshulu
The Moshulu at Penn's Landing, Philadelphia
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 Germany
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| Name: | Kurt |
| Namesake: | Dr. Kurt Siemers |
| Owner: | G. H. J. Siemers & Co., Hamburg |
| Route: | Europe to Chile and Newcastle, Aust. |
| Builder: | Alex. Wm. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow |
| Cost: | £36,000 |
| Laid down: | 1903 |
| Launched: | 18 April 1904 |
| Christened: | 18 April 1904 as the Kurt |
| Completed: | June 1904 |
| Maiden voyage: | June 1904 via Santa Rosalía to Valparaíso |
| Homeport: | Hamburg, |
| Fate: | Seized by the US as enemy asset |
 United States
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| Name: | Moshulu |
| Route: | (US) Manila, Australia, South Africa |
| Acquired: | 1917 |
| Out of service: | 1928 |
| Homeport: | San Francisco |
 Finland
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| 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 1970 |
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United States
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| Name: | Moshulu |
| Acquired: | 1970 |
| Reinstated: | 1975 as a restaurant |
| Homeport: | Philadelphia |
| Status: | restaurant ship |
| General characteristics | |
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| Displacement: | 7,000 ts (1,700 ts ship + 5,300 ts cargo) |
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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) |
Moshulu (ex Kurt) is a four-masted steel barque built by William Hamilton and Company on the River Clyde 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.
Originally named Kurt after Dr. Kurt Siemers, director general and president of the Hamburg shipping company G. H. J. Siemers & Co., she was, along with her sistership Hans, one of the last four-masted steel barques to be built on the Clyde, (Archibald Russell was launched in 1905). Constructed for G. H. J. Siemers & Co. to be used in the nitrate trade, at a cost of £36,000, she was launched in 1904. Her first master was Captain Christian Schütt, followed by Captain Wolfgang H. G. Tönissen in 1908 who made a fast voyage from Newcastle, Australia, to Valparaíso with a cargo of coal in 31 days.
Between 1904 and 1914, under German ownership, Kurt shipped coal from Wales to South America, nitrate from Chile to Germany, coal from Australia to Chile, and coke and patent fuel from Germany to Santa Rosalía, Mexico.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Kurt was sailed to Oregon under the command of Captain Tönissen, then laid up in Astoria until being seized when the United States entered the war in 1917. She was first renamed Dreadnought ("one who fears nothing"), then, because there was already a sailing ship of that name registered in the US, she was renamed the Moshulu (which had the same meaning in the Seneca language) by the First Lady of the United States and wife of President Woodrow Wilson, Edith Wilson. Between 1917 and 1920, Moshulu was owned by the U.S. Shipping Board and carried wool and chrome between North America, Manila and Australia.
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