Pommern (museum ship)

Pommern (German: Pomerania ), one of the “Flying P-liners”, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. The Kruzenshtern bark belongs to the same category of ships, during the construction it was called “Padua” (“ Padua ”).

He later moved to Gustav Erickson from Mariehamn , Åland . Used to transport grain from Australia to England and Ireland until the outbreak of World War II. After the war, parked in Mariehamn as a museum ship.

This museum ship is owned by the Åland Maritime Museum and is anchored in the western harbor of Mariehamn . Part of the exhibition is a collection of photographs of the ordinary sailor Peter Carney, taken in 1933 and reflecting the dramatic life of the crew of a sailing vessel enveloping Cape Horn.

Pommern had a reputation as a "lucky ship." He survived two world wars, losing only a few members of the team. Twice, in 1930 and 1937, he won the Big Grain Race. Now it is one of the main attractions of the Åland Islands .

• Case Material: Steel
• Type: four -masted bark
• Length: 95 m
• Width: 13 m
• Gross register tons: 2376
• Net Registered Tons: 2114
• Payload : 4050 t
• Main mast height: 50 m
• Total sail area: 3420 m²
• Straight sail area: 2450 m²
• Team: 26 people

• Kåhre, Georg. (1978). The Last Tall Ships: Gustav Erikson and the Åland Sailing Fleets 1872-1947 . Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-134-3

•   Wikimedia Commons has Pommern related media files
• Homepage of the museum ship Pommern

1. ↑ Vinjammer (neopr.) . Date of treatment January 17, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.