RV Vema
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| Operator: | 1953 - 81: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory |
| Builder: | Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Launched: | February 2, 1923 |
| Completed: | March 1923 |
| Identification: | IMO 7738383 |
| Fate: | presently operated by Sail Windjammer |
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| Type: | schooner |
| Tonnage: | 585 GRT |
| Length: | 49.9 m (163 ft 9 in) (pp) |
| Beam: | 10.1 m (33 ft 2 in) |
| Depth: | 15 m (49 ft 3 in) |
| Capacity: | 72 passengers (as Mandalay) |
| Crew: | about 28 (as Mandalay) |
The research vessel Vema was a three-masted schooner of the Lamont Geological Observatory (now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]), a research unit of Columbia University. The 202 ft (62 m). vessel, with her almost indestructible Swedish wrought iron hull, became renowned as one of the world’s most productive oceanographic research vessels. The ship had been first sailed for pleasure under the name Hussar, and after her career as a research vessel entered a new career as the cruising yacht Mandalay.
Designed by Cox & Stevens and built in 1923 by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen for E. F. Hutton and his wife Marjorie Merriweather Post, the 585-ton luxury yacht Hussar had an iron-hull and represented the epitome of maritime luxury and glamour in her class. In 1934 Hutton had built the Hussar (II) (later Sea Cloud), an even larger yacht than his first Hussar. In 1935, the Hussar was sold to Norwegian shipping magnate, G. Unger Vetlesen and his wife Maude Monell and renamed Vema, a combination of Vetlesen and Maude. The Vetlesens spent many pleasurable days at sea.
During World War II, Maude Monell donated Vema to the American war effort. The vessel was put into service as a merchant marine cadet training ship. The Vema was first put to use patrolling coastal waters for the US Coast Guard. Having lost her glitter, the vessel patrolled coastal waters and later served as a barrack and a training ship for the United States Merchant Marine. Assigned to the US Maritime Service Training Station on Hoffman Island, her sailing area was listed as 14,000 sqf. After the war she was abandoned off Staten Island until Louis Kenedy, a captain from Nova Scotia, salvaged the vessel. LDEO leased the vessel in 1953 and soon bought her for $100,000.
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