Flying P-Liner
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The Flying P-Liners were the sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz of Hamburg.
Passat in Travemünde, Germany
Kruzenshtern (ex-Padua) under sail
Peking, at South Street Seaport, New York
Mozart (left) and Penang (right), formerly Albert Rickmers, photo by Alan Villiers
Passat (ship)
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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. She is one of the last surviving windjammers.
Flying P-Liner
…and it became increasingly difficult to achieve a satisfactory utilization on the outbound leg from Europe to Chile. The later ships, such as Peking or Passat, returned to being smaller four-masted barques. During World War I, many of Laeisz' ships were blocked in Chilean ports and had to be handed over as…
Kruzenshtern meeting Passat on the occasion of her one hundredth anniversary in 2011