So my first message ...

What to choose from your collection so that it would not be a shame to start my blog? What to show, what would everyone say - "Wow !!!"?

I'll start with this -

Model of the four-masted barge "Magdalene Winnen" (II) in 1/48 scale.

The model was built to order for "Sadnai Maritime Heritage Center"

Construction with drawings and descriptions of the ship from the book by G.Underhill.

Magdalene Vinnen II
The "Sedov", originally named the "Magdalene Vinnen", was launched in Kiel in 1921 at the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft at Kiel, Germany, for the shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co. of Bremen, one of the largest German shipping companies at the beginning of the 20th century. The shipping company initially objected to have an engine installed in the ship, but the ship yard (with backing from a Government committee) successfully argued for an engine, making the ship the first sailing ship with auxiliary engine designed to modern principles.
The "Magdalene Vinnen" was at the time the world’s largest auxiliary barque and exclusively used as a cargo ship with a crew that was partially made up of cadets. She sailed on her maiden voyage on September 1, 1921. Her voyage took her from Bremen via Cardiff, where she took on coal, to Buenos Aires. Despite bad weather, the journey from England to Argentina with holds full of coal took just 30 days. The "Magdale Vinnen" carried all sorts of cargo: apart from coal, she took timber from Finland, wheat from Australia, pyrite from Italy and unit load from Belgium. The four-masted barque made two voyages around Cape Horn to Chile. Until her last voyage under the Vinnen flag in 1936, the ship sailed to Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Reunion and the Seychelles.