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View of the sailing ship HERZOGIN CECILE at sea. Mounted on paper and card.

(3242gt) : 4-masted steel barque built 1902 by Rickmers, Bremerhaven, as a training ship for the North German Lloyd Line. She was laid up in Chile from 1914 – 1918. 1918 – Allocated to the French government as War Reparations, and subsequently bought by Capt. Gustaf Erickson of Mariehamn. She became famous for winning a succession of “Australian Grain Races”. It was at the culmination of one of these races that she she struck the Hamstone Rock off Salcome, Devonshire in thick fog on the 25th April 1936. Holed in the forepeak, she was beached at Starhole Bay but rough seas quickly turned her into a wreck