Pommern (ship)
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This article is about Finnish sailing ship, for German battleship, see SMS Pommern

Sailing ship Pommern in Mariehamn, 2005.

The Pommern, anchored in the western of Mariehamn's two harbours, Västerhamn.

The Pommern (the name means Pomerania; earlier name Mneme) is a windjammer. She is a four-masted barque that was built 1903 in Glasgow at J. Reid & Co shipyard.

She is one of the Flying P-Liners, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Later she belonged to Gustaf Erikson (Åland) who used her to carry grain from Spencer Gulf area in Australia to harbours in England or Ireland until the start of World War II.

She is now a museum ship anchored in Mariehamn, Åland. A magnificant collection of photographs taken by Ordinary Seaman Peter Karney in 1933 showing dramatic pictures of life on a sailing ship rounding Cape Horn can be found in the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich

Four other Clyde-built tall ships are still afloat:

• Balclutha (San Francisco)
• Falls of Clyde (Hawaii)
• Glenlee (Glasgow)
• Moshulu (Philadelphia)

Technical details

• Structure: Built of steel and rigged as a 4 masted barque.
• Length: 95 m
• Width: 13 m
• Depth: 7.5 m
• Grossreg. ton: 2376 tons
• Netreg. ton: 2114 tons
• Cargo: 4050 tons
• Length of main mast: 50 m
• Total area of sails: 3240 m²
• Area of square sails: 2450 m²
• Crew: 26

See also

• af Chapman
• Kruzenshtern (ship)
• Passat (ship)
• Pamir (ship)
• Peking (ship)

External links

• Homepage of museum ship "Pommern"

Coordinates: 60°06′10″N, 19°55′15″E