The 4-mast bark Sea Cloud (the most romantic sailing ship afloat) for anchor in the bay outside the beautiful medieval Old Town of Dubrovnik, Croatia
The Sea Cloud was built in Kiel, Germany, as a Barque for Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband Edward F. Hutton of Wall Street fame E. F. Hutton & Co. She was launched in 1931 as the Hussar II. In 1935, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies, married Marjorie Merriweather Post. Mr. and Mrs. Davies renamed the ship Sea Cloud. As a man with political influence, Davies entertained many high profile people on the ship, including Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. In 1943, the Navy asked for control of Sea Cloud and Nourmahal, another former yacht converted into a weather ship. On April 9, 1943, the United States Navy commissioned Sea Cloud as USS Sea Cloud (IX-99), though she maintained a Coast Guard crew. She was assigned to Task Force 24. In 1947 she returned to civilian service. In 1955 Rafael Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic, purchased Sea Cloud, trading a secondhand Vickers Viscount for it. He renamed the ship Angelita after his daughter. In 1966, five years after Trujillo's assassination, the ship, now named Patria, was sold to Operation Sea Cruises. Company president John Blue renamed her Antarna. After the ship stayed in port for eight years, Hartmut Paschberg and a group of Hamburg associates purchased her, once again naming her Sea Cloud. Paschberg and thirty-eight other men sailed the ship to Europe, arriving in the Port of Hamburg on November 15, 1978. Sea Cloud spent eight months undergoing repairs in the now-named Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard, the very yard she was built in. She was redesigned with a sixty-four passenger capacity for a crew of sixty. The ship set sail on her first cruise in 1979, and has since been described by the Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships as "the most romantic sailing ship afloat". In 2011, the Sea Cloud underwent extensive renovations at the MWB-Werft, Bremerhaven. She is still operating as a cruise ship.
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Location: Old Town, Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia ,Balkan, Southern Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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