Sail training ship L´Avenir (1913)
Belgian sail training ship
L´Avenir photographed at the World Exhibition in Ghent in July, 1913. My restoration and colorization of the original image in the Finnish Heritage Agency archive.
"The L'Avenir was a four-masted steel barque built in 1908 by R.C. Rickmers, Geestemünde for Soc. Anon. Maritime de Belge S.A., Antwerp as a sail training ship. Its dimensions were: 286.5 × 44.6 × 24.7 ft (87.3 × 13.6 × 7.5 m) and tonnage: 2738 GRT and 2074 NRT. 1932 sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn. 1937 sold to Hamburg Amerika Linie (Germany) and was renamed Admiral Karpfanger. In 1938 she sailed from Port Germein, Australia, for Hamburg with a cargo of 3500 tons of wheat. After having radioed its position 51°S and 172°E on March 1 and "all well" it was not heard of again."
(Wikimedia Commons)
Admiral Karpfanger disappeared in March 1938 in the Kap Horn area with 60 crew members (33 of which were 15 - 18 year old cadets).
Sail training ship L´Avenir (1913)
Belgian sail training ship
L´Avenir photographed at the World Exhibition in Ghent in July, 1913. My restoration and colorization of the original image in the Finnish Heritage Agency archive.
"The L'Avenir was a four-masted steel barque built in 1908 by R.C. Rickmers, Geestemünde for Soc. Anon. Maritime de Belge S.A., Antwerp as a sail training ship. Its dimensions were: 286.5 × 44.6 × 24.7 ft (87.3 × 13.6 × 7.5 m) and tonnage: 2738 GRT and 2074 NRT. 1932 sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn. 1937 sold to Hamburg Amerika Linie (Germany) and was renamed Admiral Karpfanger. In 1938 she sailed from Port Germein, Australia, for Hamburg with a cargo of 3500 tons of wheat. After having radioed its position 51°S and 172°E on March 1 and "all well" it was not heard of again."
(Wikimedia Commons)
Admiral Karpfanger disappeared in March 1938 in the Kap Horn area with 60 crew members (33 of which were 15 - 18 year old cadets).