Albatross was a schooner (2m; L/B/D: 82.8' × 20.8' × 9.8' (25.2m × 6.3m × 3m); Tons: 93 grt. Hull: steel. Comp.: 19. Mach.: aux., 1 screw), built at the state shipyard in Amsterdam in 1920. Two-masted fishing schooner A schooner (IPA: ) is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,298 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 52°22′N 4°54′E Website www. ... 1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

Originally named Alk, the Albatross spent two decades working the North Sea before being purchased by the German government in 1937. Twelve years later Royal Rotterdam Lloyd bought her for use as a training ship for future officers. Her smallness made her ideal for this kind of work and the dozen trainees could receive personal attention from the six or so professional crew. While under Dutch ownership she sailed the North Sea extensively, with occasional voyages as far as Spain and Portugal. The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A school ship is a ship used for the training of students as sailors. ...

The American yachtsman Ernest K. Gann purchased the Albatross in 1956, rigged her as a brigantine, and she cruised the Pacific for three years. In 1959, Ocean Academy, Ltd., of Darien, Connecticut, acquired her to use her again as a training ship. Over the next three years, Dr. Christopher B. Sheldon and his wife, Dr. Alice Strahan Sheldon, ran programs for up to fourteen students in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Ernest Kellogg Gann (born October 13, 1910 in Lincoln, Nebraska; died December 19, 1991 in Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington) was an author, sailor, fisherman and aviator. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Description In sailing, a brigantine is a vessel with two masts, at least one of which is square rigged. ... For other meanings of Pacific, see Pacific (disambiguation). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Darien is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 19,607, but a July 1, 2002 Census estimate put the towns population at 19,887. ... ...

On 3 May 1961, while en route from Progreso, Mexico, to Nassau, the Bahamas, she hit a white squall about 125 miles west of the Dry Tortugas and sank almost instantly, taking with her four students, Alice Sheldon, and the cook. The loss of the Albatross prompted the U.S. Coast Guard to undertake a thorough review of the stability and design requirements for sailing school ships, the new rules for which were codified in the Sailing School Vessels Act of 1982. May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nassau may mean the following: Place names: The capital of the Bahamas; see Nassau, Bahamas A duchy in the medieval Holy Roman Empire; see Nassau (state) The Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau formed by annexation of that duchy A town in Rhineland-Palatinate; see Nassau, Germany Baarle-Nassau; is a... A white squall is a sudden and violent windstorm without the black cloud generally characteristic of a squall. ... Fort Jefferson on Garden Key, from northeast The Dry Tortugas are a small group of islands, located at the end of the Florida Keys, USA, about 113 km west of Key West, and 60 km west of the Marquesas Keys, the closest islands. ... Coast Guard shield The United States Coast Guard is the coast guard of the United States. ...

The 1996 film White Squall narrated the ship's tragic loss. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... A white squall is a sudden and violent windstorm without the black cloud generally characteristic of a squall. ...