Wavertree
 The Wavertree at her berth in New York
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The Wavertree (ex- South Gate ) is a 1885-built in England Windjammer and now stands as a museum ship of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York . She is the largest preserved iron full ship .
history
The ship was commissioned in 1885 as Southgate by the shipping company RW Leyland & Company from Liverpool . While it was still being built at the Oswald Mordaunt & Company shipyard in Southampton , the ship became the property of the Chadwick, Pritchard shipping company, which used it for trading in India from 1886 to 1888. On these voyages, most of the cargo they transported home consisted of jute.
In 1888 it was sold back to the shipping company RW Leyland & Company, which used the ship predominantly on trampoline trips around the world for the next 23 years . On a trip to Valparaiso in September 1910, bad weather at Cape Horn damaged the Southgate so badly that it returned to the emergency port of Montevideo (Uruguay) for repairs . During the subsequent attempt to complete the voyage, the main mast broke off Cape Horn in November 1910, and five sailors were seriously wounded. Then she ran back to the Falkland Islands , which she reached in December. In April 1911 the ship was brought to the southern Chilean port of Punta Arenas as a warehouse hulk for wool . Around 37 years later, in January 1948, her fate seemed sealed and she was dragged to Buenos Aires to be demolished . Instead, Alfredo Numeriani acquired the Wavertree and had it converted into a sand lighter.
In 1968 the South Street Seaport Museum, founded two years earlier in New York, acquired the dismantled ship. Today the Wavertree is part of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York. The Wavertree was built as an iron full ship. It was one of the last large sailing ships made from this material and is now the largest of its kind. Its name is derived from the Liverpool district of the same name.
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen: The last great sailing ships . Delius Klasing publishing house, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 .
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Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 17.5 ″ N , 74 ° 0 ′ 11.6 ″ W.