*September 29-30: Danmark Trophy @ Coast Guard*
Teams scheduled to attend the Danmark Trophy September 29-30, 2012 hosted by the U.S. Coast Guard Academy are: MAISA: Hobart & William Smith, Old Dominion University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, New York Maritime MCSA: University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin NEISA: Yale University, Roger Williams University, Tufts University, Boston College, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College, University of Rhode Island, NEISA TBD PCCSC: Stanford University SAISA: College of Charleston Report Time: 0930 Boats: 420/FJ Contact: Brian Swingly, 860-444-8325 [email protected] Captain Knud Hansen donated this trophy in appreciation for American friendliness to the officers and crew of the Danish training ship "Danmark" while on U.S. Coast Guard duty, 1942-45. The *Danmark* succeeded the *København*, a five-masted barque which was lost at sea at the end of 1928, as Demark's principal training ship. Launched in 1932 at the Nakskov Shipyard in Lolland and fitted out the following year, she was built to train officers of the Danish merchant marine. In 1939 she visited the United States to participate in the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York City, but at the outbreak of hostilities in World War II she was ordered to remain in US waters to avoid capture by the Germans. She was then based in Jacksonville, Florida and maintained with the help of the Danish American community there. After the attack on Pearl Harbor the captain, Knud Hansen, offered the ship to the U.S. government as a training vessel. This offer was accepted, and the *Danmark* moved to New London, Connecticut to train cadets at the United States Coast Guard Academy there. Approximately five thousand cadets were trained before the ship was returned to Denmark in 1945. -- Danielle M. Richards ICSA Interconference Regatta Coordinator cell: 619.322.7512 office: 619.255.0083 fax: 619.222.0528 email. [email protected] www.collegesailing.org twitter: @collegesailing ________________________________________________ icsa mailing list [email protected] http://www.collegesailing.org/mailman/?listname=icsa Unsubscribe: Send a blank email to [email protected]
