København

A five-masted barque built of steel in 1921 by Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, for the A/S Det Østasiatiske Kompagni, Copenhagen. Her dimensions were 112,38×15,0×8,14 meters [368'0"×49'3"×26'9"] and with a tonnage of 3901 GRT, 3329 NRT.

1921 March 24: Launched at the shipyard of Ramage & Ferguson, Leith, for the A/S Det Ostasiatiske Kompagnie, Copenhagen, to be used as a sail training ship. Assigned the Danish signal NGHB.
1928 December 14: Left Buenos Aires for Melbourne under command of Captain H.F. Andersen with a crew of 15 seamen and 45 cadets.
1928 December 17: Spoke to the SS Arizona some 400 miles East of Montevideo.
1928 December 21: In radio contact with SS City of Auckland and William Blumer. After this she was never heard of again.

References:

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Chas. F. Melling: In Search of the Kobenhaven. The Full Facts of the Investigation Carried Out by the Deucalion.
Sea Breezes Vol. 64 (1990), pp 693-697, ill.
Schander, Carl-Otto: Mest om skepp försvunna med man och allt.
Longitude 3, Stockholm, 1968. pp 5-20, ill.
Swann, F.R.H.: In Memoriam: Loss of the Kobenhavn.
Sea Breezes Vol. 53, Liverpool, 1979. pp 133-134, ill.
Vogtmann, Rita: Kobenhavn.
Der Albatros 43. Jg, Bremen, 1998. pp 13-14, ill.

Updated 1998-04-27 by Lars Bruzelius.

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