Pommern (ship)
Pommern at Mariehamn, Finland in 2005.
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| Builder: | J Reid & Co |
| Launched: | 1903 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
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| Class and type: | Windjammer |
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| Length: | 95 m (312 ft) |
| Beam: | 13 m (43 ft) |
| Draught: | 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion: | Sails, 3,420 m2 (36,800 sq ft) |
| Sail plan: | Barque |
| Complement: | 26 |
The Pommern, formerly the Mneme (1903–1908), is a windjammer. She is a four-masted barque that was built in 1903 in Glasgow, Scotland at the J. Reid & Co shipyard.
The Pommern (German for Pomerania) is one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Later she was acquired by Gustaf Erikson of Mariehamn in the Finnish Åland archipelago, who used her to carry grain from the Spencer Gulf area in Australia to harbours in England or Ireland until the start of World War II.
On 25 November 1928, Pommern was completely dismasted in the English Channel. Her 79 crew were taken off by the German tug Heros. The British ocean liner Lancastria offered assistance but Pommern refused it.Pommern was towed into Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, where she arrived on 30 November 1928. She was repaired and returned to service.
On 2 March 1925, Pommern ran aground at Port Germein, South Australia, but she was refloated and returned to service.
After World War II, Pommern was donated to the town of Mariehamn as a museum ship. She is now a museum ship belonging to the Åland Maritime Museum and is anchored in western Mariehamn, Åland. A collection of photographs taken by Ordinary Seaman Peter Karney in 1933 showing dramatic pictures of life on a sailing ship rounding Cape Horn can be found in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich.
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