SpiderX22
06-28-2008, 08:11 PM
This is a discussion thread for the following file:<br><br><b><a href=http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile14097/Sailing-Vessel-Moshulu.htm>Sailing Vessel Moshulu</a></b><br><br>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. <br /><br /><img src=http://www.gearthhacks.com/showimage.php?image=new/080505/313328Zwischenablage17.jpg>