Re: barques, ships, steel & iron ships


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Posted by John Wilson on May 22, 2007 at 01:23:53 from 202.154.141.206 user hugo.

In Reply to: Re: The Cutty Sark posted by Owen Roberts on May 21, 2007 at 22:04:16:

The Pommern (1903) is a “4-masted
steel barque (baldheaded barque)” in a book I have by Peter Monks on the Flying ‘P’ ships by Peter Monks. Not an iron barque, the Plus (1885) was the last iron ship for the Laeisz line. Can some expert explain “baldheaded barque” please?

The Cutty Sark and City of Adelaide are full-rigged ships. Clippers refers to speedy ships, and I doubt if the ex-emigrant ship City of Adelaide was speedy?

Windjammer is just a term for a sailing ship, perhaps a large one with an iron or steel hull.

Other surviving sailing ships are barque-rigged, eg the the surviving Laeisz or “Flying P” ships Passat, Peking, Pommern & Kruzenshtern (ex-Pasdua). And the Star of India (ex-Euterpe, a Shaw Savill emigrant ship to New Zealand) at San Diego which was converted to bark-rig in 1901-02 to be used in the Alaskan fish trade: “the Euterpe now was a bark, rather than a ship”. But are large 5-masted barques of 4000 tons plus like the France or Potosi not ships?




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