PASSAT

Namesake: Tradewind
Owner: F. Laeisz Shipping Company
Port of registry: Hamburg (1911-19)
Hamburg (1919-21)
Marseille (1921)
Hamburg (1922-32)
Mariehamn (1932-51)
Hamburg (1951-58), Lübeck (since 1958)
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)
Status: Youth hostel
General characteristics
Class & type: four-masted steel barque
nitrate carrier
Displacement: 6.180 ts
Tons burthen: 4.700 ts
Length: 377 ft (115 m) (length overall)
319 ft (97 m) (length on deck)
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, forcastle, and midship decks
Installed power: originally no auxiliary propulsion;
Since 1951: built-in sub diesel (~900 HP)
Propulsion: sail
Sail plan: 34 sails: 18 square sails, 9 staysails, 4 foresails, 3 spanker sails
sail area: 49,514 sq ft (4,600 m²)
later on: 43,056 sq ft (4,000 m²)
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

Photo Credits: The Alewxander Turnbull Library NZ

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Gordy