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Statsraad Lehmkuhl

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In service
  
1914-1918

Namesake
  
Length
  
98 m

Tonnage
  
1.375 million kg

Builder
  
Name
  
Statsraad Lehmkuhl

In service
  
1921

Launched
  
1914

Beam
  
13 m


Name
  
Grossherzog Friedrich August

Shanty seamans working song from statsraad lehmkuhl in the tall ships races in stavanger


Statsraad Lehmkuhl is a three-masted barque rigged sail training vessel owned and operated by the Statsraad Lehmkuhl Foundation. It is based in Bergen, Norway and contracted out for various purposes, including serving as a school ship for the Royal Norwegian Navy (using RNoN's prefix "HNoMS").

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It was built in 1914 as a school training ship for the German merchant marine under the name Grossherzog Friedrich August. After the First World War the ship was taken as a prize by the United Kingdom and in 1921 the ship was bought by former cabinet minister Kristoffer Lehmkuhl (hence the name, which means "Cabinet Minister Lehmkuhl"). With the exception of the Second World War, when she was captured by German troops and called Westwärts, the ship has belonged to Bergens Skoleskib until it was donated to the Foundation in 1978.

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In 2000, she was chartered by the German Navy while their Gorch Fock was overhauled.

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Sister ships

The three sister ships of Statsraad Lehmkuhl also survive:

  • Dar Pomorza (originally Prinzess Eitel Friedrich)
  • Duchesse Anne (originally Großherzogin Elisabeth)
  • Schulschiff Deutschland

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    References

    Statsraad Lehmkuhl Wikipedia