Cap San Diego
Retired freight liner turned ready-to-sail museum ship, rescued from scrapping and rebuilt by hand.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cap San Diego in Hamburg follows a 1986 rescue: days from the scrapyard in Hong Kong, the freighter was towed home and patched together by volunteers in a single week. The real rebuild came from an unusual crew, laid-off dockers from the neighboring shipyard, put back to work through a program called Okotech starting in 1989. They gutted crew cabins into a restaurant and cut new passages through the old cargo holds, on a ship that once carried coffee, cotton, cocoa and beef from South America.
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