Passat (ship)
Passat in Travemünde | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Germany | |
| Name | Passat |
| Namesake | Tradewind |
| Owner | F. Laeisz Shipping Company |
| Port of registry | |
| Route | Hamburg-Chile; 1 journey round the world |
| Ordered | 1908 |
| Builder | Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
| Cost | German gold mark 680,000.00 |
| Yard number | 206 |
| Laid down | 2 March 1911 |
| Launched | 20 September 1911 |
| Decommissioned | 1957 |
| Maiden voyage | 24 December 1911 to Valparaiso (arr. 14 March 1912) |
| Identification |
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| Status | Youth hostel |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type |
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| Displacement | 6.180 ts |
| Tons burthen | 4.700 ts |
| Length |
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| Beam | 47.3 ft (14.4 m) |
| Height | 178 ft (54 m) (waterline to masthead truck) |
| Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
| Depth | 28 ft (8.5 m) (depth moulded) |
| Depth of hold | 26.5 ft (8.1 m) |
| Decks | 5: 2 continuous steel decks, poop, forecastle, and midship decks |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion | sail |
| Sail plan |
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| Speed | 18 knots (33.34 km/h) under sail (6.4 kn with engine) |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 4 lifeboats |
| Complement | 26-35 |
| Crew | captain, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd mates, steward, 21 to 30 able seamen and shipboys |
Passat is a German four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She is one of the last surviving windjammers. (The name "Passat" is German for trade wind.)