BARQUE L’AVENIR.
SOLD TO GERMANY. Tho four-masted barque L’Avenir has been sold by Captain Gustaf Erikson, of Mariehamn, Finland, to the Hamburg-Amerika Lino. She wili.be fitted out as a training ship for the education of officers' for the line. L’ Avenir was one of the last sailing vessels to be built anywhere in the world. She was completed as late as 1908, the builders being Rickmers, of Bremerhaven. Constructed entirely of steel, her hull is said to be the .most beautiful afloat. She took part in this year’s grain race from South Australia, finishing only a day behind the Passat and Pommern (which dead-heated), with a passage of 95 days. Her new owners paid the equivalent of £16.000 for tne vessel. About a year ago the NorddeutscherLloyd Line, which is combined with the Hamburg- Amerika Line, purchased the famous auxiliary four-masted barque Magdalen Vinnen, which was thoroughly refitted as a training ship and renamed Kommodore John6en. The vessel is now on her way to South Australia for a wheat cargo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 3
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170BARQUE L’AVENIR. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 215, 11 August 1937, Page 3
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