The Shenandoah is a three-masted schooner with a steel hull, built in New York in 1902 as a private yacht for the American financier Gibson Fahnestock.

[citation needed] Shenandoah was designed by Theodore E. Ferris for the American financier Gibson Fahnestock.

The schooner has a strong resemblance to German Emperor Wilhelm II's Meteor III which was built in the same shipyard.

Jarl refitted the ship with large amounts of modern equipment, including diesel engines and electricity.

[3] During the Second World War Atlantide was hidden in a Danish shipyard in Troense, where one engine and all masts were removed, to make the ship not seaworthy and thus useless for the German occupying forces.

The expedition produced a wealth of new knowledge about the oceanography and marine life in a part of the ocean that had previously been very poorly studied.

In 1986 she was sold to Swiss businessman Phillip Bommer, who performed a complete restoration at the McMullen & Wing shipyard in Auckland.

[5] Most of the original riveted hull was replaced and in 1997 the Shenandoah was awarded "Best Classic Yacht Restoration".