The Pekings departure may be imminently on the horizon.

Sailing vessel peking. Peking now a museum ship in New York was one of the last windjammers in the nitrate and wheat trade. Laeisz shipping company and named after the German state and kingdom of PrussiaIt was the worlds only ship of this class with five masts carrying six square sails on each mast. The PEKING is one of the last large cargo sailing ships that at the beginning of the 20th century was able to compete against steam and machine ships due to her speed safety and precision.

Her crew followed the standard sailing vessel routine of. The Peking - a witness to the past. It is 115 metres long and 1440 metres wide.

Named for the Chinese capital of Beijing the Peking was constructed in Hamburg-based shipyard BlohmVoss in 1911. 06 1975 - Sailing ship for New York. Peking was built in 1911 at the Blohm Voss shipyard in Hamburg for the German ship owner F.

Though a product of the 20th century she still sailed in the traditional way with few labor saving devices or safety features. After the Sedov another former German ship she is the largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation. Its a long film but its 30 minutes of astounding black and white footage of the dying days of the age of sail.

PEKING under sail in the atlantic ocean in the 1920ies 19201930 Hamburg Port Museum. The former freight sailing vessel Peking looks back on an eventful past. Sailors cling to wildly.

The four-masted sailing vessel Peking formerly the Shaftesbury Homes training ship Arethusa being towed from the Blackwall Yard of R H Green and Silley Weir yesterday after a refit in preparation for her new across the Atlantic. The 64-year old vessel has been sold to a New York maritime museum. This video has now been removed by.