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{{Short description|A barque, converted from a three-masted schooner built in 1921}}
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'''''Carthaginian''''' was a three-masted [[barque]] outfitted as a [[whaler]] that served both as a movie prop and a museum ship in [[Hawaii]].  Laid down and launched in Denmark in 1921 as the three-masted [[schooner]] ''Wandia'', she was converted in 1964–1965 into a typical [[square rig|square-rigged]] 19th-century [[whaler]] for the filming of the 1966 movie [[Hawaii (1966 film)|''Hawaii'']]. Afterward, she was moored in the harbor of the former [[whaling]] port-of-call of [[Lahaina]] on the [[Hawaii]]an island of [[Maui]], explaining the [[Whaling in the United States#History|whaling industry]] in the Hawaiian islands. ''Carthaginian'' was lost in 1972 when she ran aground just outside the harbor on her way to [[drydock]] maintenance on Oahu and was replaced as a whaling museum by ''[[Carthaginian II]]'' in 1980.

== History ==
The vessel that last sailed, and gained fame, as ''Carthaginian'' was built in 1921 in Denmark as the three-masted [[schooner]] ''Wandia''. She  hauled cargo in the [[Baltic Sea]] for owner Captain Petersen for 30 years. After a few more fishing commercially out of [[Iceland]], she was purchased and taken to Central America as a general cargo ship.<ref name=HHR>{{cite journal |url=https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/12095/1/HHR-Vol2No12-1965.pdf |title=The ''Carthaginian'' |author=McConkey, J.R. |date=July 1968 |journal=Hawaii Historical Review |volume=2 |number=12 |pages=460–461 |accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref> Unsuccessful there, she was scheduled to take part in the inaugural [[Operation Sail]] procession in New York Harbor in July 1964, sailing under a Panamanian flag.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6A9j6aZAo8C&pg=PT48|title=Gathering of Great Ships |author=Anable Jr., Anthony |date=March 1964 |magazine=Popular Boating |accessdate=22 October 2017}}</ref> Instead, she was purchased by R. Tucker Thompson in November 1964 after an inspection in [[Acapulco]].<ref name=SFE-660424/> 

She was delivered to San Diego later that year. After advertising her availability, Thompson sold the ship to the [[Mirisch Company]], a Hollywood production company, which was filming ''Hawaii''. Thompson held an option to be the first to repurchase the ship after filming was completed. Under Mirisch it was outfitted in the Southern California port of [[San Pedro, Los Angeles|San Pedro]] as a [[barque]], [[square-rig]]ged on its main and fore masts and [[fore and aft rig]]ged on its mizzen, to resemble a 19th-century [[whaler]] for scenes in the 1966 film ''Hawaii''.<ref name=Tucker>{{cite web |url=http://tucker.co.nz/tuckers-story/ |title=Tucker's Story |author=Thompson, Anita |date=4 April 2016 |website=tucker.co.nz |accessdate=21 October 2017}}</ref> The cost of the refit was US$150,000,<ref name=HA-670212>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/260215061/ |title=Mission, Ship Restored at Lahaina |date=February 12, 1967 |newspaper=Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> performed under the supervision of vintage sailing ship experts [[Alan Villiers]],{{efn|Villiers was better known for sailing ''[[Mayflower II]]'' across the Atlantic in 1957.}} Ken Reynard,{{efn|At the time, Reynard was captain of the San Diego museum ship [[Star of India (ship)|''Star of India'']].}} Karl Kortum,{{efn|Kortum was director of the [[San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park|San Francisco Maritime Museum]].}} and Bill Bartz,{{efn|Bartz was captain of the San Francisco Maritime Museum's ship [[Balclutha (1886)|''Balclutha'']].}} who then sailed the ship to Hawaii with Villiers as captain and Reynard as mate. Upon its arrival, it was renamed ''Carthaginian'' for the ship of that name in the 1959 novel [[Hawaii (novel)|''Hawaii'']] by [[James A. Michener]], on which the 1966 film was based.<ref name=HHR />

After filming was complete in November 1965 Thompson re-purchased ''Carthaginian'' and set off for California, calling at [[Lahaina]] along the way. Following this, Larry Windley, director of the non-profit "Lahaina Restoration Foundation" (LRF), convinced its members to make an offer to purchase the ship as a tourist attraction harking back to Lahaina's time as a whaling port. When the ship next made land in [[Hilo, Hawaii|Hilo]] on the Big Island of Hawaii, LRF representatives met her and approached  Thompson.<ref name=HHR /><ref name=Tucker /> He agreed to a postponed consummation of the deal,<ref>[https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/sinking-of-the-two-carthaginians/ “ Sinking of the Two Carthaginians”], imagesofoldhawaii.com</ref> continuing on first to California, where stops included [[Sausalito, California|Sausalito]],<ref name=SFE-660424>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/462452803/ |title=4-Rigger Movie Starlet in Sausalito |date=April 24, 1966 |author=Belcher, Jerry |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> before embarking on a five month sail to Tahiti. 

After advertising for 20 working crew (who would each pay US$1500 for the privilege),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/31781061/ |title=Ex-Monrovian Seeks Adventurers -- With Money -- to Sail to Tahiti |author=Duncan, Ray |date=July 3, 1966 |newspaper=Independent Star-News |location=Pasadena, California |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> the ship sailed from San Diego on August 4, 1966, and returned to Lahaina in January 1967. There it was converted into a whaling ship museum and tourist attraction, with Thompson serving as captain and curator.<ref name=HHR /><ref name=Tucker /><ref name=HA-670212/><ref name=NYT-700510>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/10/archives/of-banyans-missionaries-and-resorts.html |title=Of Banyans, Missionaries And Resorts |author=Turner, Wallace |date=10 May 1970 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=20 October 2017}}</ref> Thompson left in 1968, and LRF declared it would be maintained as a working vessel, making an annual trip to dry dock on Oahu under a volunteer crew.<ref name=HHR />

''Carthaginian'' was featured in several scenes of the sequel to ''Hawaii'', [[The Hawaiians (film)|''The Hawaiians'']] (1970), captained by Whip Hoxworth, played by [[Charlton Heston]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/460410661/ |title=History Goes Hollywood in Lahaina |author=Sutton, Horace |date=July 5, 1970 |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> 

''Carthaginian'' ran aground on the Lahaina Reef on April 2, 1972, while sailing to dry dock at Oahu.<ref name=HA-720426>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/261307543/ |title=Funds sought for new Carthaginian |date=April 26, 1972 |newspaper=Honolulu Advertiser |access-date=16 February 2021}}</ref> The wreck was stripped in place of its masts, rigging, exhibits, and figurehead, then pieced and barged to a dump in [[Olowalu, Hawaii|Olowalu]].<ref name=HA-720426/>

Another ex-Baltic Sea cargo schooner was acquired to replace it in 1973, later renamed ''[[Carthaginian II]]''.<ref name=HA-051214>{{cite news |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Dec/14/ln/FP512140339.html |title=Lahaina icon sinks into deep sleep |author=Wilson, Christie |date=14 December 2005 |newspaper=Honolulu Advertiser |accessdate=20 October 2017}}</ref><ref name=NPS-73>{{cite report |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/2a63dfe5-a9fb-4784-a6c9-bb27330f7d8a |title=Lahaina (Historic District) |author=Apple, Russell A. |date=21 December 1973 |publisher=National Park Service |accessdate=20 October 2017}}</ref>

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== External links ==
* {{vimeo|id=68180699 |title=Filming the Movie "Hawaii"}}
* {{vimeo|id=68177683 |title=Crossing the Pacific in a Square Rigged Ship}}
* {{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSrrSLLB_BwC&pg=PP160|title=Sea Scouts Sail a Square-Rigger |author=Payne, Lee |date=August 1968 |volume=24 |number=2 |magazine=Boating |pages=44–45 |accessdate=21 October 2017}}
* {{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RCzNHuhU564C&pg=PA157|title=Operation Sail: Loomings and Landfalls |author=Rohr, Frank |date=June 1964 |magazine=Motor Boating |pages=44–45; 155–161 |accessdate=22 October 2017}}

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