Padua
A four-masted steel barque built in 1926 by Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Wesermünde. Her dimensions are: 97,65×14,04×7,72 meters
[320'5"×46'1"×25'4"] and tonnage: 3064 GRT and 2678 NRT.
Rigged with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.
- 1926 June 24 [Gerdau has 23]
- Launched at the shipyard of Joh. C.
Tecklenborg, Wesermünde, for
F. Laeisz, Hamburg.
- 1926 August 30 — November 24
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Quiriquina. Captain Carl Schuberg.
- 1927 January 4 — April 11
- Sailed from Taltal to
Delfzyl with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1927 June 16 — September 4
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Talcahuano.
- 1927 October 18 — January 12
- Sailed from Iquique to
Hamburg with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1928 April 5 — June 20
- Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano.
Captain Hermann Piening.
- 1928 August 1 — October 10
- Sailed from Mijillones to
Lizard with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1928 November 25
- Sailed from Hamburg for Chile.
- 1929 February 13 — June
- Sailed from Taltal to Hamburg with
a cargo of nitrate.
- 1929 July 26 — October 5
- Sailed from Hamburg to Taltal.
- 1929 November 13 — February 13
- Sailed from Tocopilla to
Brügge with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1930 February 28 — May 16
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Talcahuano.
- 1930 July 8 — October 10
- Sailed from Iquique to Delzyl with
a cargo of nitrate.
- 1930 December 23 — March 3
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Talcahuano via San Antonio, Valparaiso, and Taltal in 70 days.
Captain Robert Clauß.
- 1931 April 13 — July 10
- Sailed from Taltal to La Pallice
with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1931 July 29 — October 13
- Sailed from La Pallice to
Taltal.
- 1931 October 21 — January 7
- Sailed from Taltal to
Santander with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1932 January 28 — February 28
- Sailed from Santander to
Hamburg.
- 1933 — 1935
- Captain
Jürgen Jürs.
- 1933 October 31 — January 7
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Wallaroo in 68 days.
- 1933 December 10
- Sailed 346 nautical miles in 24 hours.
- 1933 December 28
- Sailed 351 nautical miles in 24 hours.
- 1934 February 16 — June 6
- Sailed from Wallaroo to
Avonmouth with a cargo of grain.
- 1934 October 13 — January 6
- Sailed from Hamburg to Port
Victoria.
- 1935 Febrary 17 — May 27
- Sailed from Port Victoria to
Queenstown with a cargo of grain.
- 1936 January 23 — April 18
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Talcahuano.
Captain Robert Clauß.
- 1936 June 6 — September 1
- Sailed from Taltal to
Hamburg with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1936 October 30 — December 31
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Corral in 66 days.
- 1937 February 16 — May 8
- Sailed from Iquique to Hamburg in
80 days with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1937 May 27 — September 12
- Sailed from Hamburg to
Valparaiso.
Jürgen Jürs.
- 1937 October 14 — January 4
- Sailed from Iquique to
Hamburg with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1938 February 10 — May 28
- Sailed from Hamburg to Valparaiso
in 104 days.
- 1938 June 24 — September 20
- Sailed from Iquique to Bremen
with a cargo of nitrate.
- 1938 October 14 — December 22
- Sailed from Bremen to Corral.
- 1939 January 14 — March 8
- Sailed from Valparaiso to Port
Lincoln with a cargo of nitrate.
Captain Richard Wendt.
- 1939 April 3 — July 8
- Sailed from Port Lincoln to Glasgow
with a cargo of grain.
- 1946 January 11
- Sailed from Hamburg to Swinemünde via
Kiel and Lübeck, where she was delivered to the Russians.
- 1946
- Rebuilt in Leningrad and renamed Krusenstern.
Still in use as a Russian sail training ship based at Kaliningrad..
Select Bibliograhy
- Four- and five masted ships, general references.
- anon.: Abenteuer auf Windjammern. UDSSR verchartert Mir
Druzhba.
Albatros Jg. 34, Bremen, 1989. pp 90-91.
- Burmester, Heinz: Das Rennen Passat contra Padua 1935.
Albatros Jg. 34, Bremen, 1989. pp 1-5, ill.
Translation of Olof Granquists account of this journey published in
De våra i främmande land, December 1944.
- Burmester, Heinz: Den stora kappseglingen Padua versus
Passat.
Longitude 17, Stockholm, 1981. pp 28-39, ill.
- Feddersen, Hans-Peter: Acht Tage auf der Krusenstern /
Padua.
Albatros Jg. 34, Bremen, 1989. pp 26-27.
- Gerdau, Kurt: Viermastbark Padua … ein ruhmreiches
Schiff.
Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1978. 8vo, 99, (5) pp, 12 pl.
- Grönstrand, Lars: Seglande skepps farter.
Longitude 3, Stockholm, 1968. pp 30-37, ill.
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