Iron-hulled sailing ship
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Iron-hulled sailing ships represented the final evolution of sailing ships at the end of the Age of Sail. They were built to carry bulk cargo for long distances in the nineteenth and early twentieth c
Four-masted, iron-hulled barque Herzogin Cecilie
Diagram of rigging and sails on a full-rigged ship, ca. 1905
Crew of the ship Garthsnaid at sea, ca. 1920, securing a section of the foresail.
The largest sailing ship to survive, the four-masted barque Moshulu at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Preussen (ship)
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Preussen was a German steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 for the F. Laeisz shipping company and named after the German state and kingdom of Prussia. She was the world's
Iron-hulled sailing ship
…the competitiveness of sail against steam in the later part of the 19th century. The largest example of such ships was the five-masted full-rigged ship Preussen, which had a load capacity of 7,800 tons. She was also one of the fastest, regularly logging 16 knots (30 km/h) average speed on transatlantic voyages…
Preussen under full sail
Preussen, stranded in Crab Bay
Preussen with tugs, Crab Bay, England, 1910
Preussen soon after the 1910 collision