Yngve

A three-masted schooner built of oak and pine in 1929 at Björkenäs, Pukavik, Sweden. Equipped with an auxilliary 58 H.P. oil engine. Dimensions: 26,01×6,74×2,37 meters and tonnage: 96,71 GRT and 74,23 NRT.

1929: Launched for Karl Anders Ögård, Gravarne, Sweden. Assigned the official Swedish registration number 7532.
1931 July: Owned by part-owners managed by K.A. Ögård. The auxilliary engine is now of 90 H.P.
1939 Spring: Sold to Rederi AB Spårö, Västervik, and renamed to Lindö.
1940 Fall: Sold to Ernst F. Dunér et al. but kept Västervik as her homeport.
1941: Transferred to Rederi AB Österhavet where Dunér was managing director.
1944 January: Sold to Erik A.H. Johansson et al. in Stockholm.
1955: Bought by Tage Gustavsson et al. in Edshultshall.
1957: Re-rigged as a ketch ("galeas" in Swedish).
1961: One of the part-owners, Hugo Gösta O. Gustavsson, became the sole owner.
1963 Summer: Sold to Kenneth Adolfsson, Bergkvara.
1966: Sometime around 1966 sold to Hjalmar Konrad Olsson et al., Kalmar, and was equipped with an oil-engine.
1969: This was the last freight season, the following year she was sold to Peter J. Wood, Hobro.
1975: Left for New York by way of Svendborg where she was re-rigged as a three-masted schooner.
1983: The Alexandria Seaport Foundation bought the schooner and renamed her the Alexandria.
1996 September: Sold to Yale Iverson, Des Moines, Iowa, when it was found that she required extensive repairs.
1996-12-09: Foundered some 50 miles SW off Cape Hatteras, NC, USA, on voyage to Beaufort, NC. The crew was saved by the US Coast Guard.

Updated 1997-02-28 by Lars Bruzelius

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