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HISTORY
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Built as the
pilot schooner "Elbe 5" after a design by Gustav Junge at
the H.C. St�lcken & Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, GER in 1883.
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Retired from
pilot service in 1924 and purchased by author Warwick
Tompkins in 1928, in 1929 commissioned as a cruising yacht
and sail training vessel, renamed the "Wander Bird".
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Made a total of
13 trans-Atlantic crossings in this time, in 1936 Tompkins
sailed her around Cape Horn to San Francisco Bay, after a
voyage to Tahiti, Tompkins laid the schooner up in
Sausalito, California in 1941 where she became a houseboat
for his ex-wife.
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1969 purchased
by Harold and Anna Sommers, begin of a restoring, fitted
with her first engine, sailed for the first time in June,
1981.
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Was not used
much by the Sommers and was offered for sale in 1992, after
some unsuccessful trials to sell her back to Germany she
departed Sausalito for Seattle in October 1998, the new
owners Jim Flury and David Cook intended to offer charter
cruises in Mexican waters but instead chartered her to a
non-profit group in Seattle to serve as a sail training ship
and goodwill ambassador for the city, this program never got
started but the schooner remained in Seattle.
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On initiative of
the "Stiftung Hamburg Maritim" the ships returned to Hamburg
on October 7, 2002 where an overhaul of electrical equipment
began and the rigging and deck will be checked, all
necessary work is done in the context of the project "Jugend
in Arbeit Hamburg e.V.".
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Since 2004 used
as charter ship for day trips and longer voyages.
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Name: |
No. 5 Elbe |
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Former names: |
Elbe 5, Wander Bird |
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Registered port: |
Hamburg |
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Nation: |
GER |
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Type of rigging: |
SCHOONER |
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Type of ship: |
Lotsenschoner |
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Year built: |
1881-1884 |
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Yard: |
H.C. St�lcken & Sohn, Hamburg Steinwerder, GER |
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Length (hull): |
25.32 m |
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Breadth: |
5.95 m |
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Draught: |
3.66 m |
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Sail area: |
492 m2 |
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Ship's hull: |
Holz / Wood |
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Power: |
158 PS |
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Engine: |
General Motors 471 Diesel |
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