Financial -- Contributions - Boats -- GUNDEL, Ketch 65” built in Denmark, 1893
File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Identifier: musarch-s0239-rec-02022
Scope and Contents
correspondence, newspaper articles, publication, (“Log” of Mystic Seaport, October 1961), report, memos, bill of sale
Dates
- Creation: 1893
Extent
1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
General
Originally named MARIE MATHILDE -- On May 23, 1948 a group of Latvian refugees, who formed a company and secretly purchased the boat, sailed from Gottenberg with 29 men, women and children. They were bound for the United States for political asylum. -- In 1955 she took part in several scenes of the motion picture Carousel. -- Due to GRUNDEL being unsafe, sale did not go through and she was scuttled. -- At Mystic Seaport 1961-1969 - Disposed
Repository Details
Part of the Museum Archives Repository
Contact:
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic Connecticut 06355 United States
860-572-5367
[email protected]
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic Connecticut 06355 United States
860-572-5367
[email protected]