Google translation : The Passat was commissioned by the shipping company F. Laeisz built in Hamburg shipyard Blohm und Voss and ran in 1911 by the stack. At that time included the four-masted steel barque to the legendary Flying P -Liner . They had excellent sailing characteristics and reached under 4,100 m² sail area a speed of up to 18 knots . As Frachsegler she commuted between South America , Australia and Europe and transported for their various owners primarily wheat. The notorious for its bad weather conditions to sail around Cape Horn , the Passat total of 39 times. In the first World War II was the four-master for several years in the port of Iquique in Chile and returned in 1921 to Marseille back because it was ceded to France as war reparations . The Laeisz bought it back for 13,000 pounds Brit tables and put them in a Nitric transport . 1932 sold the Laeisz the trade to the Finnish shipowner Gustaf Erikson . Until the Second World War, the ship was put on seven trips to Australia . 1934 1937 and 1938 won the Passat the Grain race , a prestigious race of the cargo-carrying tall ship from Europe to Australia . After the shipowner Gustaf Erikson died in 1947 his Windjammer were sold. The Passat and your sister ship Pamir were chartered from 1947 to 1951 to the British government as a warehouse and then sold to a Abfrackfirma . A community of interest around captain Helmut Grubbe and Lübeck shipowner Heinz Schliewen rescued the two ships and led her to Kiel . Add to Kiel Howaldtswerken sailing ships were converted to cargo-carrying sail training ships, also received the Passat now an auxiliary motor with 1000 hp tractor to save costs. On the rides professional mariners were now additionally formed seamanship . Due to declining profitability was adjusted 1957, the ship out of service. In 1959, the city of Lübeck bought the ship for 315,000 DM and uses the Passat since 1966 as a stationary museum ship , and later as a youth hostel and venue information. The ship offers 106 beds in 35 cabins and 3 classrooms . Your mooring in Travemünde in the sailing ship harbor at the mouth of River Trave . Since 1978, the Passat is an example German naval history historical monument and is now considered the symbol of Travemünde. In the years 1997-98, the Hanseatic city of Lübeck was the Passat for 7.2 million DM to restore the Flender Werft .
