Everything about Passat Ship totally explained
Passat is a German four masted steel
barque and one of the
Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the
German shipping company
F. Laeisz. The name "Passat" means a
trade wind in
German language.
History
Launched in 1911 by
Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg, the ship was used for decades as a cargo ship until well into the age of steamships. She participated in "The Last Grain Races", famous races around Cape Horn by the last working sailing ships. Among her crew was the bosun
Niels Jannasch who later became the director of Canada's
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. In the 1950s,
Passat and
Pamir (which wasn't an exact sister ship of the
Passat) became school ships of the German
merchant marine. In 1957, a few weeks after the tragic loss of
Pamir and shortly after having been severely hit by a storm,
Passat was decommissioned. She had experienced almost the same fate as the
Pamir when her loose barley cargo shifted.
The ship is now a youth hostel, venue and
museum ship anchored in
Travemünde, a borough of
Lübeck,
Germany.
Sister ship
Her true
sister ship is the
Peking, which has also survived as a museum ship. She is an attraction at the
South Street Seaport museum, harbour of
New York in the
United States. The
Pamir has often been and is still discussed as
Passat's sister ship because both ships sometimes showed up pairwise in the 1950s. The last eight four-masted barques ordered by Laeisz have been not correctly called "The Eight Sisters" because of their similarity including
Pangani,
Petschili,
Pamir,
Passat,
Peking,
Priwall,
Pola (which never sailed under the Laeisz flag) and
Padua which now sails the seas under the Russian flag as the sail training ship
Kruzenshtern. Of these eight ships
Pangani,
Petschili,
Pamir and
Padua had no true sister ships.
Footage of the Passat on the internet
- Original footage of the ship from 1957 is included in the documentary by Heinrich Klemme, Die Pamir
("The Pamir", 1959). » A clip of the German documentary is available at www.schiele-schoen.de, with the last 29 seconds featuring Passat (not under sails) shortly after she was hit by a severe storm in 1957.
Image gallery
Image:060715 Passat.jpg|Passat in Travemünde
Image:Viermastbark_passat_bei_nacht.jpg|Passat after sundown in front of the yacht harbour
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