Cap Nord

Five-masted wooden schooner built in 1918 by W. Lyall Shipbuilding Company, North Vancouver, BC. Dimensions: 74,01×13,54×5,71 meters and tonnage: 1471 GRT, and 1178 NRT. Equipped with a 250 hp engine.

1918: Launched at the shipyard of W. Lyall Shipbuilding Company, North Vancouver, BC, for Soc. d'Armem. van Hemelryk & Cie.
1921: Was returned to W. Lyall SB Co Ltd, North Vancouver, BC.
1922: Sold to H.J. Petersen, Copenhagen.
1924 April 7: Sold to Rederiet Ærø A/S (Hans Petersen), Copenhagen.
1929: Equipped with two new Lysekil Skandia 2S2C 600 hp engines.
1933 June 14: Sold to Kiel and laid up.
1934 October: Sold to Liga Morska, Kolonjalna, Gdynia, and renamed Elemka. Converted to a sail-training vessel.
1938 August: Sold to S.M. Riis, Washington, DC, and renamed Andromeda. The intention was to use the ship for scientific expeditions but was laid up in Königsberg instead.
1939 February 8: Sold by auction for German RM 30.000 to Reichsverkehrsgruppe Seeschiffahrt, Hamburg.
1939 July: Rebuilt as a stationary schoolship and renamed Kapitän Hilgendorf.
1942: Taken over by the Kriegsmarine to be used as a stationary navigation training ship moored at Hamburg-Waltershof. Later moved to Glückstadt.
1946 November 18: Taken out of the register as a seagoing vessel. Sold to Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, Hamburg. Converted at Wewelsfleth to a lighter and renamed Cornelia.
1951: Broken up.

Updated 1995-08-26 by Lars Bruzelius

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