Schooners and galeases stuck in the ice (1871)

 The winter of 1871 was cold in Denmark. These seven Danish schooners and galeases were stuck in the ice off Aarhus in January that winter. My colorization of an image in the M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark archive. The museum gives the names of four of the ships: The galeas Sophie, the 2-masted schooner Thales, the galeas Elisabeth and the 2-masted schooner Kirstine, all from Aarhus.

You can see crew members standing in front of some of the ships.

"A galeas is a type of small trade vessel that was common in the Baltic Sea and North Sea from the 17th to the early 20th centuries"

(Wikipedia).

Danish schooner Dannebrog (ab. 1920)

Danish schooner Dannebrog af Thurø, built by J.Ph. Jørgensen, Thurø, in 1916. My colorization of the original photo by an unknown photographer in the MS Maritime Museum of Denmark archive.

German topsail schooner Thor Heyerdahl in Öresund

The sight of a sailing tall ship - in this case the German sail training

 schooner Thor Heyerdahl - is always something special ... :-)

The schooner has an interesting history:

Thor Heyerdahl (named after Thor Heyerdahl), originally named Tinka, later Marga Henning, Silke, and Minnow, was built as a freight carrying motor ship with auxiliary sails at the shipyard Smit & Zoon in Westerbroek, Netherlands, in 1930. Her original homeport being Hamburg, Germany, she was used for the next 50 years as a freighter. Eventually sailing unter the flag of Panama as Minnow and then awaiting further use in Germany, she was bought in 1979 by two sailing enthusiasts, who turned the now run-down ship into a topsail schooner to use it for sail training, especially for teenagers and young adults. One of the two original owners was Detlef Soitzek, who had sailed with the Norwegian anthropologist, zoologist, ethnologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl on his Tigris expedition in 1977/1978, and suggested to name the ship after the famous researcher and adventurer. The ownership of the ship was subsequently turned over to an association. (Wiki)

Early morning traffic in Öresund

Early morning traffic in the Sound:

An unknown schooner and Polish bulk carrier Gdynia at about 4.30 AM.

The classic small cruise ship Saga Pearl II in the early morning hours.