[2] Initially operating under the name Mathilde,[citation needed] the ship was intended for trade voyages to and from Greenland.

[1] By the time she resumed operations in 1977, Our Svanen had received new masts and spars, and was re-rigged as a short-rigged barquentine.

[1] She spent the next six years operating out of Victoria, British Columbia as a training ship for the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets.

[1] During 1986, the Alpha engine was replaced by a 350-horsepower (260 kW) Caterpillar 3406 diesel, which could propel the ship at 6 knots (11 km/h; 6.9 mph).

[2] After the re-enactment, Our Svanen remained based in Sydney, with charters and cruises along the eastern Australian coast.