Da yake magana game da jiragen ruwa masu ban sha'awa, da balaguron balaguro sun ba ni labarin labarin Sea Cloud, jirgin ruwan alatu wanda ya halarci Yaƙin Duniya na II kuma aka sayar da shi ga Sojojin Ruwa na Amurka akan farashin alama na dala ɗaya, amma kafin wannan ya faru ya riga ya yi tafiya mai ban sha'awa na rayuwa.
Marjorie Merriweather Post, sunan da bazai yi muku kama da komai ba, wanda aka ba da izini a cikin 1931 "mafi kyawun jirgin ruwa a duniya" tare da Carrara marmara, siliki na Indiya, Sevres porcelain, fakitin zinare, ƙwai na Faberge ... don ba ku ra'ayin wacece wannan matar, zan gaya muku wata alama, Babban Abinci. Amma abin da ke burge ni shine in gaya muku labarin jirgin.
Jirgin ruwan Teku na Tekun yana da tsayin mita 109,5, yana da jiragen ruwa 30, masta hudu, babba mai girman mita 54 kuma ma'aikatansa sun kunshi mutane 72. Daga farkon, an ƙaddamar da shi a cikin 1931, yana da telegraph da layin tarho, da ƙaramin asibiti da ɗakin daskarewa.
Don dalilai na sirri (karanta sakin aure da sabon miji) jirgin ya ƙare a Leningrad, inda ake amfani da shi azaman hedkwatar ofishin jakadancin Amurka na yau da kullun, kuma a cikinta ana ba da manyan ƙungiyoyi don sarautar Turai da sauran haruffa.
Kamar yadda nake cewa biyo bayan harin da aka kai kan Pearl Harbor, ana siyar da Tekun Bahar Maliya kan dala daya ga Jami'an tsaron gabar tekun Amurka kuma an sake masa suna IX-99. Kamanninsa ya canza da yawa, an yi masa launin toka, ya ɓace maɗaurinsa, farantansa da kayan alatu.
Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, mai shi, Marjorie Merriweather, ya dawo da kyawawan abubuwan da suka gabata, amma kaɗan kaɗan. A cikin 1955 ya sayar da shi ga mai mulkin kama -karya na Jamhuriyar Dominica Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, wanda ya yi masa baftisma Angelita, don girmama ɗayan ɗiyarsa.
Daga nan akwai abubuwan ban mamaki da duhu a kusa da wannan jirgin.
A wannan lokacin jirgin na Herman Eble ne, shugaban kamfanin jigilar kayayyaki Hansa Treunhand Group, wanda ya saya a 1993. An gyara shi gaba ɗaya, yana ɗaya daga cikin kwale -kwalen masu zaman kansu, tare da mafi fara'a da ingantacciyar kyakkyawa ... ko don haka suka ce, saboda ba su gayyace ni cikin jirgin ba.