Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Midsummer"

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Last update: 24 Mar 2023

• built in 1910 at the Van den Windt shipyard in Vlaardingen/NL as a fishing ship (logger), first name was "Energie VL181", registration for the Zuid-Hollandse Noordzeevisserij Hollandia in Vlaardingen.
• 1917 sold to S. de Haan, Vlaardingen/NED.
• 1926 change of ownership to Cornelis van Toor, Vlaardingen/NED; renamed to "Johanna Jacoba VL181".
• used for fishing until 1928, then laid up on land.
• sold in October 1933 and converted into a motor vessel without sails, but remained unused and laid up.
• sold to Einer Nygaard, Århus/DEN in July 1936, converted to a cargo ship without sails, renamed "Helge", registration in Odense/DEN.
• equipped with a new ship's engine (Alpha 2s2c, 120 hp) in 1937.
• 1943 sold to A/S Danema from Risskov/DEN, registration still in Odense/DEN.
• sank in January 1956 after a collision with a Norwegian freighter in the habour of Langesund on the quayside, later lifted and repaired, resumption of freight transport, mainly transport of fertilizers from Herøya/NOR to Danish port cities.
• 1968 registration (STF 1213) in Kolding/DEN and used as a stonefisher.
• 1979 sold to ship's carpenter Michael S. Kiersgaard, in Trønse/DEN near Svendborg/DEN rebuilt into a sailing ship, renamed "Bergliot Synnøve".
• from 1981 used as a charter ship with sailing guests under the new name "Midsummer", registration in Gibraltar/GBR, sailings in the Mediterranean based from Venice/ITA.
• 1995 sold to the Swiss company Midsummer Shipping S.A. based in Lugano/SUI; after a major overhaul in 2001 transferred to Schooner Midsummer Ltd., registration in Douglas/GBR on the Isle of Man.
• 2002 registration in Veerhaven, Rotterdam/NED.
• 2008 sailing tours in the waters off East Africa, overhauls in a dry dock, 2011 further work in a dry dock.
• ran aground off the coast of Zanzibar in 2014, after the ship was salvaged she was towed to a shipyard in East Africa and repaired, due to unpaid bills confiscated by the shipyard and given up by the owners, laid up in Mombasa/KEN from 2016.
• from March 2022 implementation of plans to save the ship by Drew Korek, removal and overhaul of the rigging, which could apparently be rebuilt in 2023.