Priwall
A four-masted steel barque built in 1917 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, as Yard No.
234.
Dimensions 98,45×14,37×7,99 meters [323'0"×47'2"×26'3"] and
tonnage 3105 GRT and 2849 NRT.
Rigged with royal sails over double top and top-gallant sails.
A sister ship to the same owner's Pola of
1916.
- 1917 June 23
- Launched at the shipyard of Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.
The completion of the ship was delayed due to the war.
- 1920 March 6
- Delivered to
F. Laeisz, Hamburg.
- 1920-1921
- In command of Captain
Jürgen Jürs.
- 1922-1924
- In command of Captain C. Brockhöft.
- 1923
- Sailed from Cuxhaven to San Antonio in 76 days.
- 1923/24
- Sailed from Pisagua to Cuxhaven in 128 days.
- 1925-1928
- In command of Captain
Jürgen Jürs.
- 1928
- Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 99 days.
- 1928-1929
- In command of Captain K. Schubert.
- 1928/29
- Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 94 days.
- 1929
- Sailed from Iquique to Dunkerque in __ days.
- 1930-1931
- In command of Captain H. Töpper.
- 1930
- Sailed from Hamburg to San Antonio in 102 days.
- 1930
- Sailed from Mejillones to Zeebrügge in 99 days.
- 1930
- Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 89 days.
- 1931
- Sailed from Hamburg to Valparaiso in 87 days.
- 1931
- Sailed from Taltal to Brügge in 81 days.
- 1932-1935
- In command of Captain Robert Clauß.
- 1932
- Sailed from Hamburg to Port Lincoln in 138 days.
- 1933
- Sailed from Port Victoria to Barry in 106 days.
- 1933 November 4 - January 9
- Sailed from the English Channel to Wallaroo in 62 days 6 hours or 66 days from Hamburg.
- 1933 December 25
- Sailed 384 miles in 24 hours.
- 1934
- Sailed from Port Victoria to Queenstown in 108 days.
- 1934/35
- Sailed from Hamburg to Port Victoria in 83 days.
- 1935
- Sailed from Port Victoria to Queenstown in 91 days.
- 1935-1936
- In command of Captain
Jürgen Jürs.
- 1939
- Interned in Valparaiso at the outbreak of the war.
- 1941
- Presented by Germany to the Chilean Government. Renamed Lautaro and used as a cargo carrying sail training ship in the local nitrate trade.
- 1945 February 28
- Caught fire while loading nitrate in sacks and was lost.
Updated 1997-05-10 by Lars Bruzelius.
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