The Passat in Travemünde
Career (Germany)
Name:	Passat
Namesake:	Tradewind
Owner:	F. Laeisz Shipping Company
Route:	Hamburg-Chile; 1 journey round the world
Ordered:	1908
Builder:	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Cost:	German gold mark 680,000.00
Yard number:	206
Laid down:	2 March 1911
Launched:	20 September 1911
Decommissioned:	1957
Maiden voyage:	24 December 1911 to Valparaiso (arr. 14 March 1912)
Homeport:	Travemünde, Germany
Status:	Youth hostel
General characteristics
Class and type:	four-masted steel barque nitrate carrier
Displacement:	6.180 ts
Tons burthen:	4.700 ts
Length:	377 ft (115 m) (length overall) 319 ft (97 m) (length on deck)
Beam:	47.3 ft (14.4 m)
Height:	178 ft (54 m) (waterline to masthead truck)
Draft:	24 ft (7.3 m)
Depth:	28 ft (8.5 m) (depth moulded)
Depth of hold:	26.5 ft (8.1 m)
Decks:	5: 2 continuous steel decks, poop, forcastle, and midship decks
Installed power:	originally no auxiliary propulsion; Since 1951: built-in sub diesel (~900 HP)
Propulsion:	sail
Sail plan:	34 sails: 18 square sails, 9 staysails, 4 foresails, 3 spanker sails sail area: 49,514 sq ft (4,600 m²) later on: 43,056 sq ft (4,000 m²)
Speed:	18 knots (33.34 km/h) under sail (6.4 kn with engine)
Boats and landing craft carried:	4 lifeboats
Complement:	26-35
Crew:	captain, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd mates, steward, 21 to 30 able seamen and shipboys

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 trade wind in German. She is one of the last surviving windjammers.

Contents 1 History 2 Sister ship 3 Footage of the Passat on the internet 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History

Launched in 1911 by Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg, the ship was used for decades as a cargo ship (nitrate carrier) until well into the age of steamships. In 1932 she was sold to Gustaf Erikson of Finland. 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 1951, Passat and Pamir (which was not an exact sister ship of the Passat) became auxiliary sailing 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, museum ship, and landmark anchored in Travemünde, a borough of Lübeck, Germany.

[edit] 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 incorrectly 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

• Flying P-Liner
• Pamir (ship)

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Passat

• Official website

Coordinates: 53°57′29″N 10°52′53″E / 53.95806°N 10.88139°E / 53.95806; 10.88139