Grossherzog Friedrich August

• 1914
  Built of steel by Joh C Tecklenborg, Geestemünde as a schoolship for the German merchant marine. She was given the name Grossherzog Friedrich August and was rigged as a three-masted barque carrying royals over single topgallant sails. She was equipped with an auxiliary engine.

  Two ``near-sisters'' had been built earlier for the same purpose, namely Grossherzogin Elizabeth and Prinzess Eitel Friedrich, although they were full-rigged ships.

• 1918
  Taken as prize of war by the British government.

• 1920
  Physically transported to England.

• 1921
  Sold to Bergen, Norway.

• 1923
  Sold to the Norwegian Shipowners Association, Bergen, Norway and was renamed the Statsraad Lehmkuhl.

• 1924
  Transferred to the Bergen School Ship Foundation.

• 1940
  Confiscated by the Germans and renamed the Westwärts.

• 1945
  The Bergen School Ship Foundation got the ship back, and she was given back the name Statsraad Lehmkuhl.

• 1967
  Sold to shipowner Hilmar Reksten because the foundation could not afford to run the ship anymore. Reksten continued to run it as a schoolship.

• 1973
  Laid up in Bergen.

• 1978
  Reksten donated the ship to the newly created ``Stiftelsen Seilskibet Statsraad Lehmkuhl - The Statsraad Lehmkuhl Foundation.'' Since then the foundation has arranged cruises that are open to the public, in which the participants work as part of the ship's crew.

	The Statsraad Lehmkuhl		The Statsraad Lehmkuhl entering Mariehamn July 1998 Photo by Veronica Sandström
	The Statsraad Lehmkuhl in Amsterdam 26 August 2000 Photo by Fredrik Sandström

Thanks to Per Langhelle for providing some of the information above.

• http://www.lehmkuhl.no/ (External link.)