Albatross

Built in 1942 at the Lindholmen yard in Gothenburg as a four-masted schooner with auxiliary power for sail training, and named Albatross. In 1949 she lost her figurehead — an albatross — in a collision with a fishing vessel.

During the Second World War she served as a stationary training ship at Gothenburg. From 1947 until October 1948 the Gothenburg Academy of Science chartered her for a circumnavigation of the globe carrying out oceanographic research. She then returned to sail training until 1965.

Sold in 1966/67, she was registered in Panama as M/S Donna, stripped of her rig and converted into a freighter. In 1969 she became Dorothea; in 1970 the British Board of Trade bought her, renamed her Miranda with Hull as her home port, and converted her into a supply vessel for the British fishing fleet in Icelandic waters. Frederick Oldham Ltd later ran her under the same name.

In 1981 Paul Iser bought her and restored the name Albatross, intending to convert her into a cruise ship. The project failed and she was laid up in Hamburg, where she passed to Friedrich Beutelrock K.G.