Germany

Janssen & Schmilinsky

<img src="/uploads/store/photo/65647/image/large-5e3e1bcb4c35a5686baa415ede704aba.jpg" data-gid="gid://syiq/Photo/65647">Built in 1908 at Hamburg-Steinwärder as an oceangoing sounding vessel, the classic motor yacht <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/5272" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Schaarhorn37.98m (124'7&quot;)Janssen & Schmilinsky1908">Schaarhörn</a> has a rich and colourful history operating in the free city of Hamburg, Germany. Life for the steamship started with being commissioned for the continuous depth measuring of the Elbe River - Hamburg’s link to the North Sea that stretches over 100 kilometres. It is said, but never quite confirmed, that <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/5272" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Schaarhorn37.98m (124'7&quot;)Janssen & Schmilinsky1908">Schaarhörn</a> was used as a state vessel during imperial visits to the city by the German Emperor William II and the Hamburg Senate.<a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/5272" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Schaarhorn37.98m (124'7&quot;)Janssen & Schmilinsky1908">Schaarhörn</a> also played a role in both the first and second World Wars by operating as a minesweeper guide vessel and later a refugee ferry between the ports of Stolpmünde and Gdansk respectively. <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/5272" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Schaarhorn37.98m (124'7&quot;)Janssen & Schmilinsky1908">Schaarhörn</a>was decommissioned in 1972, and following two failed restoration attempts that saw her cruise to Scotland for maintenance works, a local business group returned the vessel to Hamburg in 1990 where restoration work began that would last five years following years of deterioration and vandalism while lying in the small Scottish port of Buckie.Now restored to her former glory, today <a data-gid="gid://syiq/Yacht/5272" href="#managed-by-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="Schaarhorn37.98m (124'7&quot;)Janssen & Schmilinsky1908">Schaarhörn</a> is available for private charter cruises and select voyages open to the public.

Classic motor yacht Schaarhörn in Hamburg

The classic motor yacht Schaarhörn moored in her home port of Hamburg, Germany. 