- Pommern (ship)
:"This article is about Finnish sailing ship, for German battleship, see
SMS Pommern "The "Pommern" (the name means
Pomerania ; earlier name "Mneme") is awindjammer . She is a four-mastedbarque that was built 1903 inGlasgow at J. Reid & Co shipyard.She is one of the
Flying P-Liner s, the famoussailing ship s of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Later she belonged toGustaf Erikson (Åland ) who used her to carry grain fromSpencer Gulf area inAustralia to harbours inEngland orIreland until the start ofWorld War II .She is now a
museum ship anchored inMariehamn , Åland. A magnificant collection of photographs taken by Ordinary SeamanPeter Karney in 1933 showing dramatic pictures of life on a sailing ship roundingCape Horn can be found in theNational Maritime Museum atGreenwich Four other Clyde-built
tall ship s are still afloat:
* "Balclutha" (San Francisco)
* "Falls of Clyde " (Hawaii)
* "Glenlee" (Glasgow)
* "Moshulu " (Philadelphia)Technical details
*Structure: Built of steel and rigged as a 4 masted barque.
*Length: 95 m
*Width: 13 m
*Depth: 7.5 m
*Grossreg. ton: 2376 tons
*Netreg. ton: 2114 tons
*Cargo: 4050 tons
*Length of main mast: 50 m
*Total area of sails: 3240 m²
*Area of square sails: 2450 m²
*Crew: 26See also
*
af Chapman
*Kruzenshtern (ship)
*Passat (ship)
*Pamir (ship)
*Peking (ship) External links
* [http://www.pommern.ax/welcome.htm Homepage of museum ship "Pommern"]
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