A SAILER RECOMMISSIONS
Another large sailing ship has been purchased by Mr. Gustaf Erikson, the well-known ship owner of Mariehamm, Finland. This is the four-masted barque Moshulu, 3116 tons gross and 2911 tons net register. Built in 1904; by W. Hamilton and Co. at Port Glasgow, as the Kurt, she was owned in Hamburg and sailed for ten years under the German flag. When the war started in August, 1914, the Kurt was one of a large number of German sailing ships held up in Pacific Coast ports, where they remained, till the end of 1918. The Kurt was then taken over by the United States Government, and was acquired by the Charles Nelson Company, of San Francisco, and renamed Moshulu. The ship has been laid up in Puget Sound for several years. The purchase of this vessel increases Mr. Erikson's fleet to 22 sailing ships, most of which are employed in the Australian grain trade.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 27
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156A SAILER RECOMMISSIONS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 27
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