[4] The new owners traced the history of the ship back to Carl Andersen and a shipyard in Faaborg which no longer existed.

After comparing historic documents and photographs from the era, it was determined that Orianda was originally Ragna IV.

It was seized by the Nazi forces during Operation Weserübung and later found abandoned on the shores of Denmark by Baron Johan Otto Raben-Levetzau in 1944.

[5] The day after the purchase, the vessel caught fire and damaged most of the boat while anchored in Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

After restoring the boat, Phillips continued to sail it until he sold it to a real estate developer by the name of Benlloch in 1991.