PASSAT is a German four-masted steel barque and one of the four Flying P-Liners from the trade shipping company F.Laeisz. The name "Passat" means trade wind in German. She is one of the last surviving windjammers.
After being launched in 1911 at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, she was shipping general cargo for decades, especially wheat between Australia and Europe. In the 1950's she was used as a sail training ship between Europe and the eastern coast of South-America. She rounded Cape Horn 39 times. In 1957, after her sister ship PAMIR sunk due to a storm, PASSAT has been decomissioned and since then, she is moored in Travemünde [DE], where she is now a youth hostel, event location and a museum ship.
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After being launched in 1911 at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, she was shipping general cargo for decades, especially wheat between Australia and Europe. In the 1950's she was used as a sail training ship between Europe and the eastern coast of South-America. She rounded Cape Horn 39 times. In 1957, after her sister ship PAMIR sunk due to a storm, PASSAT has been decomissioned and since then, she is moored in Travemünde [DE], where she is now a youth hostel, event location and a museum ship.
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- Callsign: DH6101 // MMSI: 211369440
- Length: 115m // Beam: 14.4m // Height: 54m (waterline to masthead)
- Draft: 7.3 m
- Installed power: originally no auxiliary propulsion; Since 1951: built-in sub diesel (~900 HP)
- 34 sails (18 square sails, 9 staysails, 4 foresails, 3 Spanier sails) // 4,000m²
- Speed: 18 knots under sail (6.4 kn with engine)
- Crew: 26-35
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