Description: Four-masted steel barque,4900 tons dwt., built as "Kurt" 1904 in Glasgow for the German nitrate trade. Confiscated by US government as WW1 reparations, bought by the famous Swedish ship-owner Gustaf Erikson. Final commercial voyage carrying Australian wheat to the UK in 1938, as immortalised by Eric Newby in "The Last Grain Race". Now "restored" as a restaurant.
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