Schooner · Germany
Atalanta
A former Cuxhaven pilot schooner of 1901, today working with young people out of Wismar.
Technical data
- Rig
- Schooner
- Flag
- Germany
- Home port
- Wismar
- Built
- 1901
- Shipyard
- Peters-Werft, Wewelsfleth, GER
- Hull material
- Wood
- Length
- 36.1 m
- Beam
- 6.2 m
- Sail area
- 479 m²
- Sailing area
- Baltic Sea
Built in 1901 at the Peters-Werft in Wewelsfleth and used as a pilot schooner at Cuxhaven under the mark No. 1 Cuxhaven until 1929.
She was then sold to a Berlin industrialist, converted into a yacht at the Schlichtig yard in Travemünde and renamed Atalanta. After another private owner, the Deutscher Hochseesportverband at Glücksburg acquired her in 1935 and used her for training. In 1939 she passed to the airmen's training college at Lobbe on Rügen, and in 1945 carried refugees from Stettin to Schleswig. From 1946 she served as a leisure vessel for the Royal Air Force at Schulau.
In 1950 the Hamburg bankers Brinkmann, Wirtz & Co. bought her and sailed with the bank's guests. She was decommissioned in 1991/92 and laid up at Rendsburg.
In 1993–94 the Förderverein Atalanta association in Wismar took her on and began a restoration supported by the German government; long-term unemployed people carried out the work at Kirchdorf on the island of Poel and at Wismar until 2001.
Today she is used for non-profit youth work and educational voyages, and as a charter ship for companies. Her name comes from Greek mythology.