Hussar

A four-masted aux. steel barque built in 1931 by Krupp Germania Werft AG, Kiel. Dimensions: 96,31×15,38×7,51 meters [316'0"×49'_"×24'8"] and tonnage: 2323 GRT and 1187 NRT. Euipped with four Krupp diesel engines of 800 hp each and an electric transmission. Rigged with double top-sails, single topgallants, royals and a main skysail.

1931 April 25

Launched at the shipyard of Krupp Germania Werft, Kiel, for E.F. Hutton, New York. Assigned the American signal WCEG.

1935

Renamed Sea Cloud.

1942-1944

Chartered to the US Goverment for $ 1 per year and used as a weather ship in the North Antlantic by the US Coast Guard.

1955

Sold to R. Trujillo, Dom. Rep. and was renamed Angelita. [Another source says that she was bought by Gibbs Corp., Jacsonville, FL, in 1955.]

19..

Renamed Patria.

1964

Sold to Antarna Inc., Miami, FL, and was renamed Antarna. Used as a sail training ship. Later laid up in Panama.

1974

Sold to Reederie Nord (Klaus E. Oldendorff) and was renamed Sea Cloud of Cayman. Registered in Malta.

References:

• Square-rigged ships, general references.
• Leek, B.M.: These Splendid Ships: marjorie Hutton's Barque Hussar of 1931.
  Sea Breezes Vol. 68 (1994), pp 480-485, ill.