Floating Paradise Found: MSY SEA CLOUD, Part One: SEA CLOUD Decked! (a top-to-bottom tour)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This feature tells the fascinating story of the world's oldest and, to many, most beautiful cruise ship. Now 90 years old, she was built for cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and her financier husband E.F. Hutton in 1931 as the HUSSAR V. HUSSAR V was the world's largest private sailing yacht, a magnificent gold-trimmed black hulled four masted barque that also had diesel engines. After Post divorced Hutton in 1935, she renamed the yacht SEA CLOUD and in 1942, the ship was chartered to the U.S. Government to serve as the weather satellite ship IX99. In 1946, the ship was returned to her owners and eventually restored to her former glory. In 1955 SEA CLOUD was sold to Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and renamed ANGELITA. Trujillo's son Ramfis used the yacht as his bachelor pad to entertain various Hollywood starlets before his father was assassinated in 1961, when the yacht was renamed PATRIA. PATRIA was sold in 1964 to new owners who renamed her ANTARNA but due to various legal entanglements, the ship spent over a decade in layup off the Panamanian coast. In 1978, she was bought by a German group of investors and painstakingly restored at Hamburg for luxury cruising. This video also provides a top to bottom tour with all passenger deck areas, public spaces and cabin categories shown in painstaking detail. #seacloud #seacloudcruises #hussar5 #ix99 #angelita #patria #antarna #marjoriemerriweatherpost #efhutton #dinamerrill #rafaeltrujillo #joeedavis
I just returned from 2 weeks on the Royal Clipper with its 5 masts which is significantly larger with much more usable deck space. It carries slightly more than 200 passengers and about 80 crew. It was a wonderful experience as I am sure the Sea Cloud would be. The Sea Cloud is definitely more luxurious and intimate and I would love to take one of its cruises to compare the experiences.
The Royal Clipper is a fantastic ship, as well! Love the undersea lounge and, as you mention, all the upper deck space. Star Clippers is les deluxe but equally or maybe even more adventurous. Love the bowsprit net, which is inaccessible on Sea Cloud. Thanks for watching and posting.
My father served aboard the Sea Cloud during WWII. He shared many stories about the US Coast Guard and this ship. This is the first video I have seen and includes a lot of history I have never experienced. There is also more historical events that took place on the Sea Cloud. I hope you will be able to add additional history in the future. Thank you!
Thank you, John! So appreciate your post. Indeed, there is much more history but I had to keep the video to a reasonable length. I hope to add more at some point in the future. :)
I am editing an article for the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary about a member who served on the USCGC Sea Cloud in the Coast Guard during WWII. This is a beautiful video to help complete my picture of this magnificent ship then and now. Thank you.
Thank you! That's fantastic! Would love to see your article if possible.
Wonderful tour of a wonderful ship by a wonderful chronicler!
SO honored and delighted you watched, Anne K! Your support and friendship mean the world to this chronicler.
excellent as always Peter !!
Thank you for showing me this wonderful video in early year 1989 I was a young boy the age 20 I joined this ship in Bremen haven west Germany 🇩🇪 and sailed Denmark Helsinki Oslo thank again for showing me a wonderful video wish I turn the clock back
Thanks so much for your kind comment and for posting here. :)
Fabulous Peter! It was just as though I was back on board. One of my special cruise memories is the time I spent aboard this remarkable yacht cruising the Caribbean.
Thank you, Clive! So happy you enjoyed this tribute to a wonder ship. So glad we still have her!
@@midshipcinema So am I glad we have her, she's a gem. In one of the pictures of her early in her career there is (part) of another vessel to the right of the picture. That was ORION, so the two largest luxury yachts in the world at the time in the same picture. ORION of course ultimately became ARGONAUT of Epirotiki Line.
@@TheClive1949 Yes! Good catch. Sadly, I never was able to get on board ARGONAUT before she went to Aliaga. Lovely old thing.
@@midshipcinema I never sailed aboard her, though I did see her a few times. She was very pretty.
Hi
I joined the sea clout in 1979 as young sailors from Indonesia 🇮🇩 the ship was dry dock I Bremen haven west 🇩🇪 Germany that time when I joined “what a wonderful memory thank you 🙏 for showing me this video I wish I can turn the clock back
Delightful. Thank you so much for showing us the details.
Thanks for coming along! :)
This was amazing
Thank you very much. Very interesting story!
Thank you. She is so full of history and character. :)
Wonderful
Peter, I'll never forget the cruise my brother, Jan Loeff, treated me to back in the early 2000s. A dream vacation!
Jan was on my mind while I made this video! I love that! Did you see the BRITANIS video, part two? Jan appears in a couple of the shots. That is where I met him. So many fond memories. Miss him very much. Hope you are doing well.
Thank you, Peter! I had not seen the BRITANIS video, part two, but now I have and I certainly enjoyed it. Thanks for having been my brother's friend. You are special, and he thought the world of you. As a matter of fact, I still have old emails he forwarded to me with reports from you about vessels, beached in India, ready to be dismantled. He always shared those with me.
@@RL-pers23 Dear Rose, this warms my heart! Jan was very dear to me and a great, loyal friend. I miss him but am so glad I was able to know him and share many fond times. I loved our occasional visits with you and how you called him, please forgive my spelling, "Jeurie" (?). I've always been a wanna be Nederlander and thought you were very cool. Thank you for these wonderful messages. :)
@@midshipcinema Peter, I am so impressed that you remember my calling him by his "family" first name! We called him Jori (his full first name was Jan Joris, and we always called him Jori). He is smiling his naughty smile down on us right now!
@@RL-pers23 Jori! I loved that! Very fond memories, indeed. And of course, he is!
I'm happy to see the ship's recovery from being the Angelita. My dad ran the pipe shop when she was refurbished in the 1950's in the Dominican Republic. At the time the powerplant was MAN. Rafael's quarters were very impressive with rhinoceros hide lampshades and binnacle in the floor. I was too young to understand the short row of really girly staterooms up the starboard side from El Benefactor's quarters. Rafael got rather little use from it, but Ramfis sure took the bit and ran with it!
Rafael's daughter and Porfirio Rubirosa never (to my knowledge) experienced the amenities, but but Rubirosa went on to fame and fortune "doing" other famous (and rich!) women.
I last saw the ship during a short in-port in Miami about 1967, named Patria at the time, but there aren't terribly many four-masted barkentine rigged ships around and I recognized the green felt curtains in the (ahem) ladies passageway up the starboard side.
Somewhere around this house I have blueprints for her, but I'm not terribly sure where they are now.
Wow, that is do wonderful you have this connection with SEA CLOUD! Fantastic memories and info on this cherished wonder of the seas. Thank you for sharing here. :)
Beautiful ship. Only the midship deckhouse is a bit too high and ruins her lines a bit, don't know why they added that.
That and the one on the stern were added so she could have enough paying guests to turn a profit.
It's like a time-machine to bring you back to the 1930s.
She is really a remarkable ship, hopefully with a long future ahead.
I was a rigger during the mid-60s in Dade, Florida, where the Sea Cloud was in drydock at the time. We were doing crane and pully work, taking down her masts with the goal of setting off to Italy and then Hong Kong for new sails. I think she was called the Patria at that time. I worked on her for several months. We were a young skeleton crew, climbing up and down and walking the masts above 150 feet without a harness or an ounce of fear. I might also say in retrospect that we didn't possess an ounce of common sense either. Sadly after 6 months of work at $25 weekly pay, a new captain replaced the one we had developed a strong bond to, and coming on board without a history of our hard work and dedication, wanted us to immediately look sharp and clean. He seemed like a good man, but we were all too burnt out and couldn't adjust to his new crew demands. Though I would have liked to have had the memory of sailing around the world, still the time spent lying on the Sea Cloud's deck at night gazing at the stars held a magic of its own. Now, thinking back on the whole experience of 55 years ago, drinking a hot cup of tea and wearing a warm smile.
Awesome. Such a fascinating share, thank you so much!
Wow, absolutely fascinating, Ken! Thank you so much for sharing these important and wistful memories of the old girl!
He would love to work on this ship for the rest of his life just for accommodation, food and $1 an hour, just enough to have coffee and beer in some port.
Built during the height of the depression
I have to ask if the vessel under some kind of historic protection
I don't believe so.
What does M.S.Y stand for
Motor Sail Yacht.