Passat

A four-masted steel barque built in 1911 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. Her dimensions are 96,60x14,30x7,93 meters [322'8x47'2x26'5] and with a tonnage of 3091 GRT, 2882 NRT and 4700 DWT. Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.

Sister ship to the same owner's Peking built in the same year.

1911 September 20: Launched at the shipyard of Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, for F. Laeisz, Hamburg.
1916-1919: Laid up in Iquique during the war.
1921: Transferred to the French Government as compensation for war damages.
1921 December: Bought back by F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 13.000.
1931: Captain Jürgen Jürs.
1932: Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn, Finland.
1939-1945: Laid up in Mariehamn during the war.
1946: Viking and Passat loaded deals for East London and Table Bay. Both ships carried passengers. Passat arrived at Tabel Bay after 82 days.
1947 May - October 6: Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth f.o. in 143 days.
1949: Sailed from Port Victoria to Queenstown f.o. in 109 days.
1950 December: Sold together with Pamir to van der Loo, Antwerpen, to be scrapped.
1951
1951: Sold to H. Schliewen, Lübeck, to be used as a sail-training ship.
1954 April: Sold at auction to Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesbank.
1956: Sold to Stiftung Pamir und Passat, Lübeck.
1957: Had to seek refuge in Lissabon when the cargo of grain shifted in a hurricane. Laid up in Hamburg after the loss of the Pamir.
1960: Stationary school ship in Travemünde.

Presently preserved as a museum ship in Travemünde.

References

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
Northmore, Betty: Passenger in the Passat.
Sea Breezes Vol. 7, Liverpool, 1949. pp 144-170, ill.
Reed, J.G.: My Visit to the Passat.
Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), pp 72-73, ill.

Updated 1998-02-03 by Lars Bruzelius.

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