Passat (ship)
Passat in Travemünde
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| Name: | Passat |
| Namesake: | Tradewind |
| Owner: | F. Laeisz Shipping Company |
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| Route: | Hamburg-Chile; 1 journey round the world |
| Ordered: | 1908 |
| Builder: | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Cost: | German gold mark 680,000.00 |
| Yard number: | 206 |
| Laid down: | 2 March 1911 |
| Launched: | 20 September 1911 |
| Decommissioned: | 1957 |
| Maiden voyage: | 24 December 1911 to Valparaiso (arr. 14 March 1912) |
| Status: | Youth hostel |
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| Displacement: | 6.180 ts |
| Tons burthen: | 4.700 ts |
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| Beam: | 47.3 ft (14.4 m) |
| Height: | 178 ft (54 m) (waterline to masthead truck) |
| Draft: | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Depth: | 28 ft (8.5 m) (depth moulded) |
| Depth of hold: | 26.5 ft (8.1 m) |
| Decks: | 5: 2 continuous steel decks, poop, forecastle, and midship decks |
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| Propulsion: | sail |
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| Speed: | 18 knots (33.34 km/h) under sail (6.4 kn with engine) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
4 lifeboats |
| Complement: | 26-35 |
| Crew: | captain, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd mates, steward, 21 to 30 able seamen and shipboys |
Passat is a German four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. The name "Passat" means trade wind in German. She is one of the last surviving windjammers.
Passat was launched in 1911 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, Hamburg. She began her maiden voyage on Christmas Eve 1911 toward Cape Horn and the nitrate ports of Chile. She was used for decades to ship general cargo outbound and nitrate home. Passat was interned at Iquique for the duration of World War I and sailed in 1921 to Marseille and was turned over to France as war reparation. The French government put her up for sale, and the Laeisz Company was able to buy back the ship for £13,000. Again she was used as a nitrate carrier until 1932 when Passat was sold to the Gustaf Erikson Line of Finland. The ship was then used in the grain trade from Spencer Gulf in South Australia to Europe. At the onset of World War II, Passat was at her home port Mariehamn in the Åland Islands of Finland. She was towed in 1944 to Stockholm to serve as a storage ship.
In 1948 the Erikson Line reentered the grain trade, and together with Pamir she participated in the last Great Grain Race in 1949 from Port Victoria around Cape Horn to Europe. Among her crew was Niels Jannasch who later became the director of Canada's Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. All told, Passat rounded Cape Horn 39 times.
Edgar Erikson (son of Gustaf Erikson, who died in 1947) found he could no longer operate either Passat or Pamir at a profit, primarily due to changing regulations and union contracts governing employment aboard ships; the traditional 2-watch system on sailing ships was replaced by the 3-watch system in use on motor-ships, requiring more crew. In March 1951, Belgian shipbreakers paid £40,000 for both Passat and Pamir.
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