#flying p

[ltwilliammowett]

Behind our 10th door, things are moving fast—very fast—and even Cape Horn holds no fear for the Peking.

The Peking in Hamburg

More about her:

The “Peking” is one of only a few remaining so-called “Flying P-Liners” belonging to the German Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz.

The ship was built in Hamburg in 1911 and served as a cargo sailing ship for transporting saltpetre from Chile, rounding Cape Horn 34 times. After decades as a stationary training ship and later as a museum ship in New York, the “Peking” returned to Hamburg in 2020, where it is undergoing extensive restoration. However, it can still be visited during this time

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Embraer Praetor 600 with the Praeterra design rendering

[oledavyjones]

The famous Flying P ship  of the German shipping company F. Laeisz “Pamir” moored up somewhere, perhaps Vancouver.

The ship was a 4-masted steel barque, built  by Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg, launched on 29 July 1905 ... she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn (1949). 

On 21 September 1957, she was caught in Hurricane Carrieand sank off the Azores, with only six survivors rescued after an extensive search.

[ltwilliammowett]

Flying P- liner, by Johannes Holst (Hamburg-Altenwerder 1880 - Hamburg-Altenwerder 1965)

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Ship's bell and compass from the Pangani, before 1913

This bell comes from the wreck of the Flying P ship Pangani (1902). It sank in January 1913 on its way from Antwerp to Chile after a collision with the French steamer Phryné north of Cape La Hague in the English Channel. Only four of the crew survived. The wreck itself was found in 2007 and could be identified by the bell and compass lying beside it.

Photo by me - IMM Hamburg

[ltwilliammowett]

The four mast barque Passat in thick fog

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Remains of a Lifeboat of the Pamir, 1950s

The Pamir launched 1905, one of the so called Flying P’s, was the last Windjammer sailing around Cape Horn without an engine. In the 1950s, the four- mast barque served as a training ship for the merchant navy. In September 1957, the ship ran into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.

She was on her way back from Buenos Aires to Hamburg with a cargo of grain. The ship capsized and sank. 60 ships from 13 countries took part in the large-scale rescue operation for the crew. But of the 86 mostly very young men on board, only six could be rescued.

Only little could be found, including two heavily damaged lifeboats. One (the one on the photo) is in the Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, the other serves as a memorial for all sailors who remained at sea in the Jacobi Church in Lübeck.