Peking
The Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz, it was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn. After her retirement in 1972, she was exposed at South Street Seaport Museum in New York City at first and came back to Hamburg in 2015. She went under a three-year refurbishment program and it is now docked Hansahafen as part of the German Port Museum | Hamburg - Germany | July 2022 |
