Rostock, Germany 11 August 2016
Jersey/United Kingdom-flagged, IMO 5299864, MMSI 233789000 and call sign GWAK. Launched as gaff schooner Friedrich by Lühringwerft an der Unterweser, Germany for account of master Johann Friedrich Kolb of Fockbek near Rensdsbrug, Germany in 1911. Sold to Axel Ageberg, Kalmar, Sweden and renamed Sam in 1924.In 1926 sold to shipping company K.H. Hendriksson, Stockevik, fitted out with a 2 stroke motor, renamed Merry and used for cargo trade in the Baltic and North Seas, stranded on the Swedish West coast in a heavy storm in autumn 1955, salvaged and rebuilt as a 1,5 mast galliot Rose Marie used in the fishery off Iceland, in the 1960s renamed Merry, heavily damaged when a fire broke out on board on 21 January 1970, sold to Anthony Timbs in 1973, restoration and conversion into a brigantine at Faversham, England and renamed Eye of the Wind.
