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PASSAT

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Built as a four-mast barque under yard No. 206 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg for F.Laeiz, Hamburg.
02 March 1911 keel laid down.
20 September 1911 launched under the name PASSAT (Trade Wind), one sister the PEKING.
Tonnage 3.091 gross, 2.882 net, 4.700 dwt., dim. 96.90 x 14.30 x 7.92m
25 November 1911 completed, building cost 680.000 Mark.

She was built for the nitrate trade from Chile to Europe, a fast ship before World War I she made 4 voyages with an average of 79 days out to Chile, and 90 days back.

During World War I laid up at Iquique, Chile.


After the war she sailed back to Europe on 27 May 1921 with on board 45.000 bags nitrate for Marseille and there transferred to the French Government as war damage compensation.
The French did not have any loading for the vessel, and she was laid up at Oostende, Belgium.
December 1921 bought back by Laeiz for £13.000.
03 January 1922 the German crew arrived and she sailed back to Hamburg for repairs.
Then again used in the nitrate trade from Chile.
25 August 1928 She rammed and sank the French steamer DAPHINE without loss of live when sailing in the English Channel, the PASSAT sailed to Rotterdam for repairs.
20 June 1929 she sailed from Hamburg and had a collision with the BRITISH GOVERNOR near the lightship ROYAL SOVEREIGN, during the collision the PASSAT got severe damage, and sailed to Rotterdam for repairs.
18 July 1929 she sailed after her repairs from Rotterdam.
1932 Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariahamn, Finland for £6.500.
That year she made a voyage from Middlesbrough to Mauritius in 83 days, then to Mahe in 45 days and from there to Auckland in 76 days.
Under Finnish flag she was used in the trade from Australia to Europe, till the outbreak of World War II when she was laid up at Mariehamn till 1944.
06 July 1944 towed to Stockholm, and used as floating grain warehouse.
After the war she loaded deals in Kotka, Finland for South Africa, the PASSAT arrived Table Bay after a passage of 82 days.
After her discharge in Capetown and East London she sailed to Port Victoria, Australia.
May 1947 She sailed from that port loaded with 56.000 bags of wheat bound for Falmouth for orders, where she arrived 06 October 1947.
After her arrival in the UK she was used for a time as floating warehouse chartered by the British Ministry of Food in Barry, then laid up at Penarth near Cardiff.
1949 Used again in the grain trade from Australia, made that year her last voyage to Europe in this trade, arrived after a passage of 109 days at Queenstown.

December 1950 sold to the Belgium shipbreaker van der Loo in Antwerp for scrap.
Thanks to the German Captain Grubbe and the shipowner Heinz Schliewen from Lübeck she was spared the blowtorch.
20 June 1951 she arrived at Travemünde, owner given as Schliewen, with homeport Lübeck.
After a lengthy repair on the Howaldt-Werken at Kiel, the bill was 2.7 million mark she was converted in a sailtraining ship.
An auxiliary 6-cyl Krupp dieselengine 900 hp. fitted in, and accommodation for 80 till 90 man.
12 February 1952 she sailed out, loaded with cement for Brazil and Argentina, and returned with grain end July.
July 1952 sailed out for her second voyage to South America, after her return laid up at Travemünde.
April 1954 after the company got bankrupt she was bought by the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesbank, most probably the mortgage holder of the vessel.
After a group of around 40 German shipowers founded “Stifting Pamir und Passat” the PAMIR and PASSAT were bought by this society in 1956.
Both ships were managed by Zerssen & Co.
The PASSAT made 5 voyages under command of Capt. Grubbe to South America.
Her last long voyage was when she sailed on 18 July 1957 from Germany for South America, on her return passage her cargo of grain shifted during a storm, she got a dangerous list and her deeptanks which were filled with grain were filled up with water. She had to make a call at Lisbon were the cargo was discharged, afterwards the dry grain cargo was again loaded and she sailed to Hamburg were she on 08 December arrived. The same year the PAMIR was lost in a hurricane with great loss of live, and the PASSAT did not sail out again.
After two years laid up at Hamburg she was sold by “Stifting Pamir and Passat” to the town Lübeck.
05 January 1960 towed to Travemünde, there used as stationary schoolship.
1965 Drydocked by the Lübecker Flender Werke thereafter in use as a museum ship.
2005 Still in use as a museum ship at Travemünde.

The Aland stamp shows her in the background of the stamp and according the designer of the stamp Mr Robert Carter is the stamp made after the two ships when loading grain in Port Victoria, Australia, the PAMIR is under full sail while the PASSAT sailed two days later.

Aland Island 1999 3m40 sg 151
Falkland Islands 19893p sg 614.
Germany 2005 0.55 + 0.25 Euro sg?
Nicaragua 1996 15cor Sg MS?., scott 2151.
Paraguay 1984 2g sg?, scott 2122d


Source: Sail Training and Cadets Ships by Harold A Underhill. Square Riggers the Final Epoch by Alex A Hurst. Many web-sites.

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Re: PASSAT

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Nicaragua 1996 15cor
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Re: PASSAT

Post by Arturo » Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:33 pm

Passat

Paraguay, 1984, S.G.?, Scott, 2122d.
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Re: PASSAT

Post by D. v. Nieuwenhuijzen » Wed Apr 19, 2017 6:45 pm

North Korea 2009, 760 ch. StG.?
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