Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Joseph Conrad"

Technical data of the sailing ship:

Name:Joseph Conrad
Ex-names:Georg Stage
Registered port:Mystic Seaport
Nation:USA
Type of rigging:VOLLSCHIFF
Year built:1882
Yard:Burmeister & Wain, Kopenhagen
Overall length:46.80 m
Length (hull):36.00 m
Breadth:7.60 m
Draught:3.60 m
Ship's hull:Stahl / Steel
Power:265 PS
Engine:Diesel

Portrait of the sailing ship:

Last update: 25 May 2000

  • built in Copenhagen in 1882 and named "Georg Stage" as a memorial to the young son of Frederik Stage
  • one of the smallest fully-rigged ships built in modern times, designed to accomodate 80 boys in training for the Danish merchant navy, 6 month training courses in the Baltic Sea and North Sea, laid up in winter
  • in June of 1905 she run down by the British freighter "Ascona of Leith", she sank taking 22 young men with her, raised and repaird after that to resume her career
  • 1916 fitted with an engine, that helped to navigate in ports
  • 1934 sold to Allan Villers, a well-known British marine writer, renamed to "Joseph Conrad", circumnavigation with boys as crew started in 1934, she returned in October 1936 to New York
  • 1936 sold to George Huntington Hartford, used as private yacht, match race against the "Seven Seas" from the US to Bermuda, each ship won one leg
  • 1939 the ship was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Commission and used as an American training ship until 1945, laid up for 2 years then
  • transferred to the Mystic Seaport Museum in 1947 and permanently moored there, serves as exhibition as well as a training ship for the Mystic Mariner Program now

Literature for further reading:

We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 341 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Giancarlo Schiavoni
"Unter Segeln, die grossen Windjammer auf den Weltmeeren"
Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1994 ISBN: 3-7822-0605-3
(ital. Originalausgabe: "La nave a vela")
Page: 200 Source with picture Source with history

American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2000 ISBN: 0-9636483-5-7
(12th Edition)
Page: 153 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact

Ingrid Schmidt
"Maritime Oldtimer, Museumsschiffe aus 4 Jahrhunderten"
Edition Leipzig 1986
Page: 43 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 385 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data

American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2007 ISBN: 978-0-9799878-0-9
(17th Edition)
Page: 181 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact