Passat (ship)
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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. She is one of the last surviving windjammers. (The name "Passat" is German for trade wind.)
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Passat in Travemünde | |
History | |
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Germany | |
Name | Passat |
Namesake | Tradewind |
Owner | F. Laeisz Shipping Company |
Port of registry | |
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) |
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Status | Youth hostel |
General characteristics | |
Class and type |
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Displacement | 6.180 ts |
Tons burthen | 4.700 ts |
Length |
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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 |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | sail |
Sail plan |
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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 |
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