Cape York 1925-1965.
Australia
ON: 152017
LR/IMO/ID: 5062077
Year: 1925
Name: CAPE YORK
Type: Buoy/LH tender
Flag: AUS
Date of completion: 10.25
Owner: Australian Govt.
Builder: Cockatoo Is Dockyard, Sydney, NSW
Yard No: 102
Link: 3252
Starke: V1925 #83
GRT: 1,406
LPP: 68.6
Beam: 10.7
1T-10 knots.

1965 BU Taiwan

Thanks to Miramar Ship Index.

Photo Credits: the Late Allan Green collection Vic Australia




Joseph Conrad 1882.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad_(ship)

Joseph Conrad is an iron-hulled sailing ship, originally launched as the Georg Stage in 1882 and used to train sailors in Denmark. After sailing around the world as a private yacht in 1934 it served as a training ship in the United States, and is now a museum ship at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

Name: Joseph Conrad
Namesake: Joseph Conrad
Builder: Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen, Denmark
Launched: 1882, as Georg Stage
Acquired: 1934
Homeport: Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut
Status: Museum and training ship
General characteristics
Type: Sailing ship
Displacement: 213 long tons (216 t)
Length: 118 ft (36 m) sparred
100 ft 8 in (30.68 m) on deck
Beam: 25 ft 3 in (7.70 m)
Draft: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Sail plan: Full rigged ship

Australian sailor and author Alan Villiers saved Georg Stage from the scrappers and renamed the ship in honor of famed sea author Joseph Conrad. Villiers planned a circumnavigation with a crew of mostly boys. Conrad sailed from Ipswich on October 22, 1934, crossed the Atlantic Ocean to New York City, then down to Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, and across the Indian Ocean and through the East Indies. After stops in Sydney, New Zealand, and Tahiti, Conrad rounded Cape Horn and returned to New York on October 16, 1936, having travelled a total of some 57,000 miles.

Villiers was bankrupted as a result of the expedition (although he did get three books out of the episode - Cruise of the "Conrad", Stormalong, and Joey Goes to Sea), and sold the ship to George Huntington Hartford, founder of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, who added an engine and used her as a yacht. In 1939 Hartford transferred the vessel to the Maritime Commission, who used her for training until 1945. After being laid up for two years, the ship was transferred to Mystic Seaport.

In addition to her role as a museum, she is also a static training vessel and is employed by Mystic Seaport to house campers attending the Joseph Conrad Sailing Camp.

Extra added info...
About midnight on June 25, 1905 the Danish training ship 'Georg Stage', later the 'Joseph Conrad', on a voyage from Stockholm to Copenhagen, collided with the British cargo steamship 'Ancona' off Kastrup.
Almost cut in two she sank in two minutes taking 22 cadets with her. 68 officers and cadets from the ship were rescued by the 'Ancona'.
The 'Georg Stage' was later raised, repaired and returned to service.

Photo Credits: the Late Allan Green collection Vic Australia

Cheers and GB

Gordy