(formerly Sea Cloud of Grand Cayman, Patria, Antarna, Angelita, Sea Cloud, Hussar) Bark (4m).
L/B/D:
316 × 50 × 19.4 (96.3m × 15.2m × 5.9m). Tons:
2,350 grt. Hull:
steel Mach.:
diesel, 3,200 ihp, 2 screws; 14 kts. Mach.:
Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel, Germany; 1931.
Built as Hussar for the breakfast cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post (then married to E. F. Hutton), this celebrated four-masted yacht was designed to carry twelve guests with a complement of sixty-six officers, crew, and staff. When Post married Ambassador Joseph E. Davies in 1935, she renamed her yacht Sea Cloud and took her first to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) and then to Belgium, until Davies's recall in 1939. From 1942 to 1944, Sea Cloud (IX-99) served as a Coast Guard weather ship in the North Atlantic. Post sailed her again as a yacht from 1947 to 1955. Over the next twenty years, the bark had a succession of names and owners, including Dominican Republic's President Rafael Trujillo. In 1974, she was purchased by a German consortium and refitted for the Mediterranean and Caribbean cruise trade, in which she still sails today.
Leek, "Marjorie Hutton's Barque Hussar of 1931."
