Duchesse Anne

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Launched in 1901, Grossherzogin Elisabeth was the first three-master to go into service with the German Association of Sail Training Ships. Designed to train officers and sailors of the merchant fleet, this square-rigged three-master was fitted out to house 130 to 200 cadets and a crew of 15 to 20 officers, petty officers, masters and sailors. The young cadets went on board for two years and were trained using a mix of practical (navigation, ship handling, seamanship etc.) and theoretical (German, geography etc.) training. In summer Grossherzogin Elisabeth sailed across the Baltic Sea and spent the winter off the coasts of Africa and South America.
From 1932, with the development of steam ships, the three-master ceased sailing. Used as a stationary sail training ship, she remained in the port of Hamburg until 1944.
In 1945 Grossherzogin Elisabeth was, along with six other German ships, given to France as compensation for the losses suffered by its merchant fleet during the war. Handed to the Navy and renamed Duchesse Anne, she was based in Lorient and then in Brest where she was used as a barracks, then as a home for young people before being scheduled for demolition.
In 1981, Dunkirk acquired the ship which became the first in France to be classified a Historic Monument. After large-scale restoration work, she was officially opened to the public in June 2001, on her hundredth birthday.

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Built as a three-masted steel hulled full rigged school-ship under yard No 176 by Johann C. Tecklenborg at Geestemünde for the Deutscher Schulschiff-Verein at Oldenburg, Germany.
06 January 1901 launched as the GROSSHERZOGIN ELISABETH, named after Oldenburg's Grossherzogin Elisabeth (1869-1955).
The design was from the yard manager George W. Claussen and she had two sisters.
Displacement 2,006 ton, 1,260 gross, 721 ton net, dim. 92.0 x 11.90 x 6.30m., length bpp. 69.00m, draught 5.45m.
Crew 20 and 130-200 cadets.
Sail area 2,060m². Speed under sail maximum 14 knots.
March 1901 completed.

17 March 1901 she sailed out for her maiden voyage as a school-ship, she did not carry any cargo during her life-span.

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