HUGO SCHUBERT
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HUGO SCHUBERT
Hugo Schubert was born in Norrköping in 1863 and died in 1954 at age of 91. At the age of 25 Schubert is graduated at Chalmers Institute of Goteborg. The following year, in 1889, Schubert worked as a naval architect in the shipyard Southampton Stockholm. In 1898 he was appointed director of the shipyard in Stockholm Malar, holding a position of great prestige. In 1906 he founded the Saltsjöbadens Shipyard, on the plot of Black Creek in Saltsjöbaden, near Stockholm. Right here in his shipyard Schubert designs and manufactures most of the most beautiful boats, including a series of 10 steel cruisers. The construction of these yachts with a steel hull began in 1912 with the creation of Alba. Currently there are only 6 of these legendary boats, which were called 'Schubertkryssare', translated 'Schubert’s cruiser'. In 1924, Schubert closes his Shipyard to follow and direct another important site in Stockholm. Hugo Schubert had, therefore, a life of great success. In 1911, in fact, received a Medal of Merit for his work as a yacht designer, helmsman and board member of the KSSS, namely the Royal Swedish Yacht Club. Bo Bergstrom, a journalist of the magazine of the MYS, Motor Yacht Society, in an article wrote: "... Hugo Schubert left us a great treasure of boats with a magnificent design.His motor cruisers are among the most beautiful boats ever constructed in Sweden. "
THE TEN STEEL CRUISERS OF SCHUBERT:
- 1- 1912, Tosca- 1913: Wijk, 1915: America ; today: ALBA II (SCHUBERT)
- 2- 1914, Inge- today: BELLMAN
- 3- 1914, Tartan, today: Capella
- 4- 1914, MIGNON disappeared as Inge III
- 5- 1916, Atala
- 6- 1916, Marion, disappeared
- 7- 1918, Sessan, today: Butterfly
- 8- 1918, Anitra, disappeared
- 9- 1919, Flora, Geisha- today: SEAHOME
- 10- 1919, Signe Elisabeth, destroyed in a fire in 1930
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File:1910 Maroguna.jpg 300 × 191
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File:1912 ALBA II.jpeg 300 × 203
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File:1914 BELLMAN-9-1.jpg 909 × 682
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File:1919 SEAHOME BERTH.jpg 510 × 300
