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Seen at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York on the 4th August 2002
Flag: Germany
Homeport: Hamburg
Built: 1911
Grt: 3100
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However, the Seaport NYC did not see the Peking as part of its long-term operational plans, and was planning to send the Peking to the scrap yard.
A 2012 offer to return the ship to Hamburg where she was originally built, as a gift from the city of New York, was contingent upon raising an endowment in Germany to ensure the preservation of the vessel.
In November 2015 the German government decided to purchase the ship, to be a part of the announced German Port Museum in Hamburg, for which €120 million were allocated.
She was taken to Caddell Dry Dock, Staten Island, on September 7, 2016, to spend the winter.
On July 17, 2017, she was transported by the heavy-lift ship Combi Dock III across the Atlantic until Cuxhaven.
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She was once well known here in the UK when she was moored on the River Medway. See Bob Scotts photo http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1473287
Regards
Bob
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