Adelaar

Built in 1902 at Zaandam in the Netherlands for an owner named Eefting, she carried cargo between England, Sweden, Norway and Russia — with no engine at all in those years.

During the Second World War she was seized by the Germans, fitted with a diesel, stripped of her masts and used to move war material under the name Heimatland. After the war the German captain Thymian worked her in the Baltic.

In 1979 new owners found her in a small fishing village near the Polish–East German border and bought her from Thymian. They rebuilt her at Oranienburg near Berlin between 1979 and 1981 — having themselves escaped from the GDR to West Berlin. Work continued at Zaandam, where the ship's origins were researched and her rig reconstructed from old photographs, and she was fitted out for sailing with guests.

A circumnavigation followed: the Mediterranean from 1984 to 1987, then an Atlantic crossing and the Caribbean; in 1988 the Pacific and New Zealand, where she took first prize in the 1991 Tall Ships regatta. In 1993 she continued by way of Norfolk Island, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomons and Papua New Guinea to Indonesia.

Since 1994 she has sailed with guests in Indonesian waters, based in Nusa Tenggara and Benoa Harbour on Bali, and serves as a platform for diving and expedition work.