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An abbreviated history of the Jylland: The Jylland was built in Denmark in 1914. Originally named N.E. Schmidt - after her builder and first owner - she hauled cargo, including salt fish and coal, for most of her career. Later, renamed Jylland, she was purchased by Howard, David, Dennis, and William Hamber of Billericay, Essex, England. These talented English brothers refitted her to carry passengers and rerigged her (as pictured) as a three-masted topsail, gaff-rigged schooner. After sailing to the Caribbean in the early 1970s, Jylland and her crew participated in an expedition to locate Sir Francis Drake's coffin off the east coast of Panama and, later, worked the tourist trade throughout the West Indies until she tragically sank in the Caribbean Sea west of Union Island in May 1980.
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Jylland at anchor in Marigot Bay, St. Martin, F.W.I.
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