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.
Peking
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