Preussen (ship)

Preussen under full sail
History
German Empire
Name	Preußen
Namesake	State and Kingdom of Prussia (Preußen)
Owner	F. Laeisz Shipping Company
Route	Hamburg-Chile (12 journeys); 1 journey round the world in charter to Standard Oil Co.
Ordered	November, 1900
Builder	Joh. C. Tecklenborg Shipyard, Geestemünde Naval architect: Dr. h.c. Georg W. Claussen
Cost	M 1,200,000 (About US$300,000 then)
Yard number	179
Laid down	August 1901
Launched	7 May 1902 and christened the same day
Completed	7 July 1902
Commissioned	10 July 1902
Maiden voyage	31 July 1902 to Iquique, Chile in 64 days
Homeport	Hamburg, Germany
Identification	code letters RMPT:
Fate	Wrecked near Dover on 6 November 1910, no loss of men
Badge	None; no figurehead, a volute instead
General characteristics
Class and type	five-masted full-rigged steel ship nitrate carrier, bulk carrier
Tonnage	5,081 GRT 4,788 NRT 8,000 DWT
Displacement	11,150 long tons (11,330 t) (at 8,000 long tons or 8,100 metric tons load)
Length	482 ft (147 m) (overall) 439.6 ft (134.0 m) (hull) 400.3 ft (122.0 m) (btw. perpendiculars)
Beam	53.8 ft (16.4 m)
Height	223.1 ft (68.0 m) (keel to masthead truck) 190.28 ft (58.00 m) (deck to masthead truck)
Draft	27.09 ft (8.26 m)
Depth	33.59 ft (10.24 m) (depth molded)
Depth of hold	32.48 ft (9.90 m)
Decks	2 continuous steel, poop, forecastle, and midship island (bridge) decks
Deck clearance	8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power	no auxiliary propulsion; 2 donkey engines for sail winches, loading gear, pumps, generator
Propulsion	sail
Sail plan	47 sails: 30 square sails; 17 fore-and-aft sails: 12 staysails, 4 foresails, 1 spanker sail area: 6,806 m2 (73,260 sq ft)
Speed	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h)
Boats & landing craft carried	4 lifeboats on the aft main deck
Complement	45, 49 max.
Crew	captain, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd mates, steward, cook, sailmaker, 38 to 42 able seamen and shipboys
Notes	small surgery, Jarvis patent brace winches for each mast

Preussen (Preußen in German and as written on the vessel) (PROY-sin) was a German steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 for the F. Laeisz shipping company and named after the German state and kingdom of Prussia. She was the world's only ship of this class with five masts, carrying six square sails on each mast.

Until the 2000 launch of Royal Clipper, a sail cruise liner, she was the only five-masted full-rigged ship ever built.