The Kapitan Borchardt is a 1918 three-masted gaff schooner. It was built in the Netherlands as a freighter and was then named Nora. In 1934, the ship lost her clipper bow after a collision on the Thames. During World War II, the Kapitan Borchardt sailed as a training ship for the Kriegsmarine. In 1989, it was restored in Stockholm, after which it was used as a passenger charter. During these years, the ship went by various names. Finally, in 2011, the ship came into Polish hands and was given the name it knows today, Kapitan Borchardt.