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    Moshulu is a four-masted steel barque, built as Kurt by William Hamilton and Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original...
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  • barque Moshulu during the vessel's last voyage in the Australian grain trade. In 1938 the 18-year-old Newby shipped aboard the four-masted barque Moshulu as...
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    Eric Newby in 1939, while he was crew in the 4-masted barque Moshulu. Sailors on the Moshulu, mostly Scandinavian in origin, referred to Port Victoria as...
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  • acting as sole shareholder of HMS Ventures, Inc., Hill purchased the Moshulu which by then had been converted into a floating restaurant. In early 2000...
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    skilled crew, such as sailmakers, were still paid poorly: the captain of Moshulu in 1938 received about $100/month and the average sailmaker about $20/month...
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    Eric Newby found the diet on the tall ship Moshulu to consist almost entirely of salted meat. Moshulu's lack of refrigeration left little choice as the...
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    more are still afloat and berthed in various harbors (Peking (Hamburg), Moshulu (Philadelphia), Passat (Lübeck, Germany), Pommern (Mariehamn, Finland)...
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    the operational windjammers of the world. In March 1935, he purchased Moshulu, "one of the finest steel barques afloat", for only $12,000. By the late...
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    Inaccessible Island on his 1938–1939 voyage from Ireland to Australia aboard Moshulu, as chronicled in his books The Last Grain Race and Learning the Ropes...
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    in 2022 MV Ganga Vihar PS Lincoln Castle - defunct McBarge - derelict Moshulu MS Normac (the original Captain John's restaurant in Toronto, now the Riverboat...
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