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Pamir was a four-masted barque built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz. One of their famous Flying P-Liners , she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn , in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit.
Peking, at South Street Seaport, New York Mozart (left) and Penang (right), formerly Albert Rickmers, photo by Alan Villiers. Four of the Flying P-Liners still exist today: Pommern is a museum ship in Mariehamn, Finland. Peking is a museum ship in Hamburg, Germany. Passat is a museum ship in Lübeck's sea resort Travemünde, Germany.
The Kruzenshtern meeting the Passat on the occasion of her one hundredth anniversary (2011). Passat's true sister ship is the Peking. The Pamir has often been, and is still discussed as Passat's sister ship because both ships were owned and operated by the same consortium of German shipowners in the 1950s.
Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz , it was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn .
Another huge four-masted barque of the fleet of Arthur Sewell & Co. of Bath, Maine, with double top-sails, single topgallant sails, royal and sky sails of a total length of 360 ft (110 m) and 3,406.78 GRT. [21] It was rammed by the steamer Powhattan near Fire Island, Long Island, New York in 1915. 91.1 m (299 ft) 23.7 m (78 ft) [note 2] Eureka ...
The five-masted Preussen was the largest ship-rigged sailing ship ever built, measuring 5,081 GRT.. Iron-hulled sailing ships were mainly built from the 1870s to 1900, when steamships began to outpace them economically, due to their ability to keep a schedule regardless of the wind.
Pamir (1931–1941 and 1948–1950, four-masted steel barque, 4 500 t, built 1905 in Hamburg. Seized in New Zealand 7.8.1941 as war prize, given back 1948, last grain journey in 1949, sold to be scrapped 1950, bought by Germans, capsized in the Atlantic Ocean 1957, 80 crew lost, 6 saved)
Moshulu is a four-masted steel barque, built as Kurt by William Hamilton and Company at Port Glasgow in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original windjammer , she is currently a floating restaurant docked in Penn's Landing , Philadelphia .