Posted by John Wilson on March 21, 2007 at 14:53:48 from 202.154.139.9 user hugo.
In Reply to: Eric Newby (was Pommern exists) posted by Jock on March 21, 2007 at 09:27:17:
The Pommern was one of the sailing ships of the Flying ‘P’ Line of Laeisz, Hamburg, used in the grain, timber & Chilean nitrate trades. Many were built by Blohm & Voss of Hamburg. The largest were the 5-masted barque Potosi (built to rival the 5-masted ‘France’) and the 5-masted Preussen, the only 5-masted square-rigged ship built (?).
Laeisz sold most of his ships in the 1930s, with the drop in the Chilean nitrate trade, keeping only the Priwall (launched 1917) & Padua (launched 1926). The Parma was sold to Allan Villiers & Reuben de Cloux of Mariehamn in 1931. Allan Villiers wrote ‘Voyage of the Parma’ (1933).
Erikson of Mariehamn, Finland purchased several in the 1930s, the Pestalozzi, the Passat, and the Pamir (which spent the war years under the New Zealand flag). Erickson had purchased the Penang & Pommern in the 1920s.
The Peking (was TS Arethusa), Pommern and Passat are now museum ships (New York; Mariehamn, Finland; & Travemünde, Germany) Only the Padua is still sailing, as the Russian training ship Kruzenshtern.