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2. Pamir (ship) - Wikipedia

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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. Her shipping consortium's inability to finance much-needed repairs or ...

3. Flying P-Liner - Wikipedia

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   Potosi, (barque) built 1895, sold 1923, caught fire and sunk off Argentina in 1925; Preussen II, (full-rigged ship) built 1902, beached in 1910 after being rammed by a steamer; and the four-masted barques Pamir, built 1905, capsized and sunk in 1957, 80 died, 6 rescued. Pisagua, built 1892, stranded 1912 South Shetlands

4. Passat (ship) - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Category:Four-masted ships - Wikipedia

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6. Viking (barque) - Wikipedia

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   Four-masted "Barque Viking" at Lilla Bommen, Gothenburg, in 2005. There are only ten four-masted barques and one four-masted full-rigged ship (the Falls of Clyde) in existence, and only five of these still sail (Sedov, Kruzenshtern, Sea Cloud I, Nippon Maru II, Kaiwo Maru II).

7. Gustaf Erikson - Wikipedia

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   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)

8. Peking (ship) - Wikipedia

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   44,132 sq ft (4,100.0 m 2) sail area 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 .

9. Preussen (ship) - Wikipedia

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   The basic idea of building such a ship is said to come from famous Laeisz captain Robert Hilgendorf, commander of the five-masted steel barque Potosi. Story has it that Kaiser Wilhelm II, while visiting Potosi on 18 June 1899, asked Carl H. Laeisz when the five-masted full-rigged ship will finally "come". This inspired Laeisz to build the ship.