Built as a sailing cargo vessel under yard S 408 by J.C. Tecklenborg at Wesermünde (now Bremerhaven) for the famous Flying P Line of Reederei F. Laeiz at Hamburg.
24 June 1925 keel laid down.
24 June 1926 launched under the name PADUA, christened by Mrs Christine Laeisz.
Tonnage 3.141 gross, 1.162 net, 1.976 dwt., dim. 114.5 x 14.05 x 8,50m., draught 6.80m.
Rigged as a ship by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.
Sail area 3.472 square meter. Barque rigged.
She had also accommodation for 40 trainees.
August 1927 in service.
30 August 1926 sailed for her maiden voyage under command Capt. Carl Schuberg from Hamburg bound for Quiriquina, Chile, then she loaded a full cargo of nitrate in Taltal for Delfzijl, Netherlands where she arrived on 11 November 1926.
16 June 1927 sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano under command of Capt. Hermann Piening, where she arrived on 04 September, a passage of 70 days from the English Channel.
18 October 1927 sailed from Iquique to Hamburg loaded with nitrate, arrived Hamburg 12 January 1928.
05 April 1928 sailed from Hamburg bound for Talcahuano, still under command of Piening arrived Talcahuano 20 June.
01 August 1928 sailed from Mijillones arrived off the Lizard on 10 October, loaded with nitrate.
25November 1928 sailed from Hamburg bound for Chile.
13 February 1929 sailed from Taltal loaded with nitrate bound for Hamburg where she arrived in June.
26July 1929 sailed from Hamburg bound for Taltal, arrived there 05 October.
13 February 1929 sailed from Tocopilla with nitrate bound for Brugge, Belgium, where she arrived 13 February 1930.
28 February 1930 sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano, where she arrived 16 May.
08 July 1930 sailed from Iquique loaded with nitrate bound for Delfzijl, where she arrived on 10 October.
23 December sailed from Hamburg via San Antonio, Valparaiso and Taltal to Talcahuano under command of Capt Robert Claus in 70 days, arrived Talcahuano 03 March 1931.
13 April 1931 sailed from Taltal to La Pallice, France loaded with nitrate, where she arrived on 10 July.
29 July sailed from La Pallice bound for Taltal where she arrived on 13 October.
21 October sailed from Taltal for Santander, Spain loaded with nitrate, she arrived there 07 January 1932.
28 January sailed from Santander bound for Hamburg where she arrived on 28 February.
1933 Command taken over by Capt. Jürgen Jürs.
31 October 1933 sailed from Hamburg for Wallaroo, Australia, left the River Elbe 02 November together with the PRIWALL, three days later both vessels passed Cape Lizard, and 19 days later the line. Three weeks later both vessels passed the meridian of Cape of Good Hope.
The PADUA kept an average speed of 11.9 miles, only the latest days she was running in a heavy storm with bad visibility, and Capt. Jürs decided to hove to, while the PRIWALL sailed through.
One day later (07 January 1934) than the PRIWALL she arrived in Wallaroo, still a record passage of 63 days from the English Channel. 10 December 1933 she made a 24 hour run of 346 miles, and on 28 December 351 miles.
16 February sailed from Wallaroo with a cargo of grain bound for Avonmouth where she arrived 06 June.
13 October 1934 sailed from Hamburg bound for Port Victoria, Australia, arrived there 06 January 1935.
17 February sailed from Port Victoria loaded with grain bound for Queenstown, Ireland, where she arrived 27 May.
23 January 1936 sailed from Hamburg bound for Talcahuano under command of Capt. Robert Claus, arrived in Chile on 18 April.
06 June sailed from Taltal loaded with nitrate bound for Hamburg where she arrived 01 September.
30 October 1936 sailed from Hamburg to Corral, Chile where she arrived 31 December.
16 February 1937 sailed from Iquique to Hamburg loaded with nitrate, arrived there 08 May. She made the passage in 80 days.
27 May sailed from Hamburg bound for Valparaiso where she arrived on 12 September.
04 October sailed from Iquique with a cargo of nitrate, bound for Hamburg where she arrived 04 January 1938.
10 February sailed from Hamburg for Valparaiso where she arrived on 26 May after a passage of 104 days.
24 June sailed from Iquique with a cargo of nitrate bound for Bremen, where she arrived on 20 September.
14 October 1938 sailed from Bremen for Corral, under command of Capt. Richard Wendt where she arrived 20 December.
Loaded nitrate at Valparaiso sailed from there on 14 January 1939 bound for Port Lincoln, Australia where she arrived 08 March.
03 April 1939 sailed from Port Lincoln bound for Glasgow with a cargo of wheat, and after a passage of 93 days she arrived in the River Clyde on 08 July.
She made her last voyage under German flag and which still is a world record for square riggers in 8 months and 23 days.
On two of her voyages she was used for a film, the first in 1935 when the French film Mutiny on the ELSINORE after the book by Jack London, was shot on board the PADUA, she sailed from Hamburg and via Brest, Lisbon, Madera, Casablanca she returned to Hamburg.
Then she was used for the German film Grose Freiheit Nr 7 (Great Freedom), which could be seen in the German cinema’s after the war in the 50s.
After arrival in Germany and outbreak of World War II she made not more long voyages Under German flag.
1943 She got a gun on board, mistakenly identify an airplane as an enemy plane, they opened fire with the gun, and shot down one of their own plains.
Also she rammed in this time one of there own U-boats.
31 December 1945 she left under tow of the tugs BRUNSHAUSEN and FAIR PLAY VII Hamburg and was towed via Kiel and Lübeck to Swinemünde where she arrived on 11 January 1946.
12 January 1946 turned over to the Russian Government as reparation payment.
When she was handed over that day Capt. Jürgen Jürs died, he passed as Captain on board the PADUA four times, Cape Horn.
The PADUA was then towed to Kronstadt where she was laid up.
1955 Transferred to the Russian Navy and refitted in a naval training ship from 1959 till 1961, renamed in KRUZENHTERN named after the famous Russian seaman and explorer Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern (19 Nov. 1770 – 24 August 1846).
At this time she got also auxiliary engines.
Port of registry Riga.
1961 She made her first long Atlantic voyage under command of Capt. P.V. Vlassov
The next five years she carried out research and training voyages, in that time she visited Bermuda, Jamaica, Gibraltar, Marseille, Casablanca, Halifax and other ports.
Under command of Capt. N.T.Shulga she made a voyage from the Baltic to the Black Sea and return.
1966 Transferred to the Fishery Ministry and between 1968 and 1971 she was transformed in a modern sail training vessel.
Since 1974 she takes part in world sailing events of Operation Sail, in which she received several prestigious awards.
1981 till 1984 underwent again a modernisation and repair period..
January 1981 transferred to the Estonian Fishery Industry, with homeport Tallinn.
1991 Became the sail training ship of the State Baltic Academy of the Fisheries Fleet of Kaliningrad.
1992 Took part in the transatlantic race in the 500th Columbus anniversary of the discovery of America.
She wins first place in this race from Boston to Liverpool, she reached a record speed of 17.4 knots in a fresh breeze.
Autumn 1993 majors repairs on a yard in Wismar, Germany.
In 2006 Russia issued a single stamp of 4k.00 showing the KRUZENSHTERN, sailing over the starboard bow. The Russian Post gives the following information on this issue:
The KRUZENSHTERN (bark) has been and will be the visiting card of the native fleet; the sailing ship has left from St Petersburg in June 2005, following the route of Kruzenshtern after which she was named.
The crew will visited dozens of world cities during the 14 months of the voyage, nearly 170 students will go through training on board the sailing ship. This circumnavigation is not the first but it is a jubilee in the history of the KRUZENSHTERN.
It is dedicated to 2 dates at once: To the 60th Anniversary of WORLD WAR II victory and the 200th anniversary of the first Russian round the world expedition under command of the famous Russian researcher Ivan Feodorovich Kruzenshtern .
She is expected back in her homeport Kaliningrad early August 2006.
As PADUA on Falkland Islands 1989 1p sg 567 and Germany 1937 8pf + 4pf sg643.
As KRUZENSHTERN on Azerbaijan 1996 300m sg 351 and 1997 300m sg 392. Belgium 1995 16f sg 3275, Bermuda 1976 40c sg 365. Portugal 1998 100e sg 2663. Russia 1981 20k sg 5171. Yemen People's Democratic Republic 1983 40f sg MS 307
Source: http://www.kruzenshtern.ru/english/shiplist.php http://werften.fishtown.de/archi/krusenstern1.html
De Laatste Grote Zeilschepen by Otmar Schäuffelen.