Rembrandt van Rijn is a Vanuatu-flagged three-masted schooner currently employed for Arctic cruises by owner and operator Oceanwide Expeditions.

She was built in 1924 as a fishing lugger and has served as a coaster and schooner under the flags of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Panama.

The ship has been lengthened three times, fitted with four different engines, and has had a change of IMO number during her career on the seas.

Rembrandt van Rijn was built in 1924 as the fishing lugger Jacoba by Gebroeders Boot, Leiderdorp, South Holland, Netherlands, for Gebr.

Jacoba was then renamed Anna Marta, after which the code letters RGPQ were allocated.

In March 1933, Anna Marta was lengthened and rebuilt as a three-masted schooner at Kiel.

In April 1951, she was lengthened at Stade, West Germany, and had a new engine in July.

On 19 May 1952, Anna Marta was sold to M. Karstens and H. Pape, Hamburg, West Germany.

Nielsen, Broager, Denmark, and was renamed Klaus D.[1] Her port of registry was Egersund, but her code letters remained unchanged.

In August 1985, she was sold to Stichting Werkgelegenheid Projecten, Groningen, Netherlands, and was renamed Enno Doedens Star.

She was sold in October 1998 to Balder Nieuwland B.V., Vlissingen, and placed under the management of Oceanwide Nautical Services B.V. Rembrandt van Rijn operated cruises between Panama and the Galapagos Islands from 1998 to 2001.

[2] The engine was built by Deutsche Kromhout Motorfabriek in Brake, Lower Saxony, Germany[1][2] and rated at 61 nhp.

The engine fitted that year was built by Deutz AG and was rated at 200 horsepower (150 kW).

[1] American science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dedicated his 1997 book The Siege to Eternity to his shipmates on Rembrandt van Rijn.