拍品专文
The sail training ship Kobenhavn was built by Ramage & Ferguson of Leith for the East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen. Launched in September 1921, she was registered at 3,901 tons and measured 369 feet in length with a 49½ foot beam. Fitted with an auxiliary engine, she was rigged as a five-masted barque and apart from the accommodation for her regular crew and the cadets, she had enormous cargo space below decks divided by four watertight bulkheads. Impressive in appearance, with a classic clipper bow and a fine figurehead, she was a magnificent vessel and the apogee of the final flowering of sail. After a successful career of only seven years however, she was lost without trace when she disappeared after leaving Buenos Aires bound for Melbourne in ballast on 14th December 1928.