Preussen

I was trying to erase the whole entry, as it hadn't kindled any interest, but all that happenned was that the image disappeared, and the text remained, but as you see, I have put it back again.
Bob
 
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It is good, that we have several of these beautiful ships still sailing or existing, means four masted "Voll-Schiffe" / windjammers / clippers

Let us see: Still existing four masted are

Pommern - a museum ship belonging to the Åland Maritime Museum and is anchored in western Mariehamn in Finnland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommern_(ship)
800px-Pommern2009.JPG

Peking - was a museum ship in NewYork and is now back in Germany and is getting a complete restoration, afterwards she will be in Hamburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peking_(ship)
1280px-Peking2018.jpg under restoration

Passat - is now a youth hostel, venue, museum ship, and landmark moored at Travemünde, a borough of Lübeck in the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passat_(ship)
375px-Flying_P-Liner_Passat_ship_in_Travemünde.jpg

Padua -
She was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation and renamed Kruzenshtern or Krusenstern after the early 19th century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann Krusenstern (1770–1846). She is now a Russian sail training ship. Her home ports in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) and Murmansk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruzenshtern_(ship)
1024px-Крузенштерн_Radich.JPG

Sedov - formerly Magdalene Vinnen II (1921–1936) and Kommodore Johnsen (–1948), is a four-masted steel barque that for almost 80 years was the largest traditional sailing ship in operation. Originally built as a German cargo ship, Sedov is today a sail training vessel, training cadets from the universities of Murmansk, Saint Petersburg and Arkhangelsk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS_Sedov
Sedov_(ship,_1921),_Sète,_Hérault_07.jpg

Moshulu - (ex Kurt) is a four-masted steel barque built by William Hamilton and Company on the River Clyde in Scotland in 1904. The largest remaining original windjammer, she is currently a floating restaurant docked in Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, adjacent to the museum ships USS Olympia and USS Becuna.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshulu
Moshulu.jpg

Falls of Clyde - is the last surviving iron-hulled, four-masted full-rigged ship, and the only remaining sail-driven oil tanker. Designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989, she is now a museum ship in Honolulu, but her condition has deteriorated. She is currently not open to the public. In September 2008, ownership was transferred to a new nonprofit organization, the Friends of Falls of Clyde, which intends to restore her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_Clyde_(ship)
FallsofClyde_Sailing_Ship.jpg

Did I forget a four-masted ship ? - There are still seven of these ships existing
 
Until recently I lived in Dover and was a volunteer crewmember on the RNLI lifeboat there. The Preussen is still visible on spring lows. She can be quite a nuisance when searching the bottom of the cliffs.
 
Until recently I lived in Dover and was a volunteer crewmember on the RNLI lifeboat there. The Preussen is still visible on spring lows. She can be quite a nuisance when searching the bottom of the cliffs.
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