Georg Stage

Date of launch1882
Place of launchCopenhagen
Type3-masted steel ship
GRT203
NRT149
DWT-
Length30.7 m (100.8 ft)
Beam7.7 m (25.2 ft)
Draft3.3 m (11.0 ft)

Later names: Joseph Conrad (1935)

  • 1882
    Built of steel by Burmester & Wain, Copenhagen for Stiftelsen Georg Stages Minde, to be used as a schoolship. She was given the name Georg Stage and was rigged as a three-masted full-rigged ship carrying royals over single top- and topgallant sails.

  • 1934
    Sold to the author Alan Villiers, who fit her out for a voyage around the World. He renamed the ship the Joseph Conrad, and carried out the voyage with a mixture of a hired crew and paying trainees.

  • 1938
    Sold and used as a schoolship for the US Merchant Marine.

  • 1946
    Taken out of active service, and ended up as a museum ship at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut.


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The Joseph Conrad
A drawing of the Joseph Conrad

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