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Shanti Devi is a schooner, later rigged as a ketch.

From about 1974, it was owned by famous Norwegian author Axel Jensen and his Indian wife Pratibha who lived on board for many years until 1990.

The couple bought it in Waxholm.

The ship was built in 1905 at Sjötorps shipyard near lake Vänern in Sweden, and originally named Zeus, but later registered in Gibraltar as S / Y Shanti Devi under the Jensen's ownership.

It was sold when Jensen became seriously ill ( with ALS ), and is now sailing privately under the Norwegian flag.