Some of the ship's more colorful owners have been Adolph Dick of the Dick sugar and banking family of New York; Hans-Wilhelm Röhl, co-owner of the Rohl-Connolly Co. (builder of thePort of Los Angelesbreakwaters) and investigated in 1942 for pro-Nazi sympathies; aviation pioneerThomas F. Hamilton;Crane Co. heir Cornelius Crane; renownedHonolulu-based skipper Omer Darr;Stimson Lumber Company scion Harold Miller; Dutch financier (andkundalini yoga teacher) Pieter Schoonheim Samara; andCalisto Tanzi, ex-chairman of theParmalat group. In January 2006 she was sold to Italian fashion magnate Diego Della Valle (Tod's et al.).
She was built with a 200-hp AmericanWinton marinediesel engine, which was replaced by a 400-hp EnglishMirrlees in the 1950s. From the mid-1990s she has had a 700-hp GermanMTU. Launched with a black hull, she has had white and dark blue hulls as well. She has flown the flags of theUnited States,France,Liberia,Panama, TheNetherlands, andItaly (current).
Allegations were made that Army officers involved in construction ofPacific air ferry routes and bases prior to the war mismanaged the effort and had improper associations with Röhl, particularly with respect to the proposed charter of his yachtVega as a survey vessel.[1]
The yacht, then namedVega, was offered by Röhl to theUnited States Coast Guard and accepted on July 9, 1942.[2] Subsequently,Vega was acquired by theUS Navy from H. W. Röhl in 1942, renamedJuniata and designated (IX-77).[3] The vessel was placed in service on August 11.[3]
Juniata was assigned to theWestern Sea Frontier and was based at San Francisco, California. She alternated with other ships on patrol for the great circle route to Hawaii, sailing to and from her station some 500 miles west ofEureka, California.Juniata was placed out of service atTreasure Island, San Francisco, California, on 1 January 1945, returned to theMaritime Commission, and sold to Thomas Hamilton in June 1945.[3]
"Birds Observed on Various Polynesian Islands aboard the Research Ship Te Vega" (Elepaio, No. 27, 1966).
"Aspects of the Physiology of Terrestrial Life in Amphibious Fishes" (Journal of Experimental Biology, No. 50, 1969).
"Nitrogen Uptake by Phytoplankton in the Discontinuity Layer of the Eastern Subtropical Pacific Ocean" (Limnology and Oceanography, September 1970).
"Studies on the fauna associated with the deep scattering layer (DSL) in the equatorial Indian Ocean, conducted on R/V TE VEGA during October and November 1964" [proceedings of an international symposium on biological sound-scattering in the ocean, 1972].
"Te Vega: Teaching School on the Sea" (Saint Petersburg Times, August 24, 1972).
"The Living Ship Still Lives" (Yachting, January 1973).
"Rolf L. Bolin, Marine Biologist, Stanford Professor, Dies" (New York Times, August 24, 1973).
"»Quite normal pupils« ... nur ganz billig ist für sie die schwimmende Schule nicht" (Kieler Chronik, October 4, 1974).
"Jovens americanos gostaram de ver brasileiro sempre sorrindo" (A Província do Pará, April 15, 1975).
"Ecology ofConus on Eastern Indian Ocean Fringing Reefs" (Marine Biology, March 1975).
"Bermuda Gets an Early Taste of Tall Ship Fever" (Royal Gazette, May 27, 1976).
Cover photo (The Bermudian, August 1976).
"Marine Algae of the Te Vega 1965 Expedition in the Western Pacific Ocean" (Atoll Research Bulletin, No. 209, May 1977).
"Eine komplette höhere Schule kam unter Schonersegeln nach Lübeck" (Lübecker Nachrichten, October 28, 1977).
"Te Vega in Leningrad" (The Yacht, June 1986).
"Te Vega in the Mediterranean" (Sea History, Autumn 1986).
"Making Headway AboardTe Vega" (SAIL, November 1986).
"Tweemastschoener TE VEGA onder Nederlandse vlag" (Spiegel der Zeilvaart, issue No. 1, 1988).
"An East-West Sail For the Environment" (New York Times, June 5, 1989).
"US-Soviet Environmental Project Develops Into Cultural Success" (Boston Globe, September 10, 1989).
"Tweemastschoener TE VEGA van klassiek jacht tot schoolschip" (Spiegel der Zeilvaart, issue No. 8, 1990).
"The International Program of Research onLatimeria in the 1960s" (Environmental Biology of Fishes, April 1993).
"Benthic Marine Algae from the Maldives, Indian Ocean, Collected During the R/V Te Vega Expedition" (Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium, Vol. 19, May 1993).
"Refitting del Te Vega" (Nautica – Mensile internazionale di navigazione, November 1996).
"«Te Vega», una nuova stella per il RINA" (Registro Italiano Navale press release, 1998).
"Omer Courtney Darr" (San Francisco Chronicle obituary, October 26, 1999).
"Décès d'Omer Darr, pionnier du tourisme de luxe à la voile" (Tahiti-Pacifique, November 1999).
"Exploring Neptune's gardens: From landlubber to reef biologist" (Atoll Research Bulletin Golden Issue 1951–2001, 2002).
"An Affair to Remember" (SAIL, August 2003).
"La scheda: il Te Vega" (Corriere della Sera, January 28, 2004).
"Tanzi implica a banqueros, políticos y Policía fiscal" (ABC, January 29, 2004).
"Yachtverlust" (Financial Times Deutschland, April 7, 2005).
"Della Valle acquista lo yacht di Tanzi" (Corriere della Sera, January 21, 2006).
"A Diego Della Valle il 'Te Vega' di Tanzi" (Città della Spezia, January 23, 2006).
"In cantiere a Genova il «Te Vega» e altri 5 scafi d'epoca" (ANSA, February 2, 2006).
"Большая мировая вода" (Novaya Gazeta monthly color supplement, May 2006).
"Ban bèk – Barku di bella" (Èxtra Boneiru [Bonaire, Neth. Antilles], August 8, 2006).
"Capri, aperitivo e tuffo per il Ministro" (Capri Press, August 14, 2007).
"Top 200 – Die größten Segelyachten" (Boote supplement, Sept./Oct. 2007).
"Historia de la investigación marina de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica" (Revista de Biología Tropical, August 2008).
"Vigilance at Sea" (California Yacht Club'sBreeze newsletter, October 2008).
Joint Committee On The Investigation Of The Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States (1946).Hearings Before The Joint Committee On The Investigation Of The Pearl Harbor Attack; Part 29, Proceedings Of Army Pearl Harbor Board. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office.
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