The Holy Spirit was bound for the Amsterdam Maritime Museum for a commemoration of Tsar Peter the Great's visit to the Netherlands, where he learnt shipbuilding.
The ship's five crew took to a lifeboat Wednesday after foul weather wrecked its steering gear, leaving it adrift off the Dutch coast. A German crew member later died.
A Dutch salvage tug attached a line to the mast of the Holy Spirit, a replica of a frigate built in 1702, and began towing it to port. But the mast was torn free by high waves Thursday night and the vessel went down.
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