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| Ship image=[[File:Baltic trader Lene Marie.jpg|300px|Lene Marie off the coast of Antigua, 1992]]
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| Ship name= ''Lene Marie''
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| Ship operator= Captain Douglas Meier 1992 to 1996 
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| Ship builder=Otto Hansen, [[Stubbekøbing]], Denmark
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| Ship fate=Sank, November 1996 
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| Ship type=Motor Ketch 
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'''''Lene Marie''''' was a [[ketch]]-rigged [[tall ship]], of {{convert|106|ft|m}} overall and 200 tons [[displacement (fluid)|displacement]].  She was built in [[Denmark]] in 1910 as a [[Baltic trader]] just before [[World War I]].  During the [[Second World War]] the ''Lene Marie'' sank in the [[Baltic Sea]] during a storm.  She was raised by the Americans as part of their efforts to rebuild Denmark after the war.

When it was no longer economical to continue using the ''Lene Marie'' as a commercial [[Ship|vessel]] she was converted into a private [[yacht]].  Her [[Hold (ship)|hold]] was turned into a [[yacht|saloon]] and [[cabin (ship)|cabins]] were added.  The [[fo'c'sle]], containing the [[crew]] quarters, remained almost unchanged during the conversion. Several crew members reported encountering a [[ghost]] in the fo'c'sle at night.  According to legend this was the ghost of a [[sailor]] who drowned in his [[bunk bed|bunk]] when the ship sank in World War II.

In November 1996 ''Lene Marie'' was lost en route from [[New York City]] to [[Bermuda]].  Three days into the voyage she ran into a storm.  After two days the ship was taking on water and had lost three sails.  A crew member was injured attempting to rig a replacement sail.  The bearings in the main engine started to fail which would have left the ship without propulsion or its main pumps.  As a result of the engine problems it was decided to abandon the ship and a radio distress call was made.  The crew were all successfully transferred to the freighter MV ''Arctic'' which had responded to the distress call.

== References==
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*[http://www.schoonerman.com/lm.htm First-hand description of the sinking, from a member of the crew]
*Conversations with crew members, 1993.

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[[Category:1910 ships]]
[[Category:Tall ships of Denmark]]
[[Category:Tall ships of the United States]]
[[Category:Individual sailing vessels]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1996]]