Kruzenshtern (ship)

Kruzenshtern sails astern of Statsraad Lehmkuhl
History
Germany
NamePadua
NamesakePadua
OwnerF. Laeisz, Hamburg (1926–46)
OperatorF. Laeisz, Hamburg (1926–46)
Port of registry
  • Weimar Republic Hamburg (1920–1933)
  • Hamburg (1933–1945)
  • Hamburg (1945–1946)
Routeas Padua: between Hamburg & Chile
BuilderJoh. C. Tecklenborg, Bremerhaven
Yard number408
Launched11 June 1926
FateSurrendered to the USSR as reparations 1946
Soviet Union
NameKrusenstern
NamesakeAdmiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн), born Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern
OwnerSoviet Navy (1946–91)
Port of registry
  • Soviet Union Riga (1946–1981)
  • Soviet Union Tallinn (1981–1991)
Russia
NameKrusenstern
NamesakeAdmiral Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Крузенште́рн), born Adam Johann Ritter von Krusenstern
OwnerBaltic State Academy Kaliningrad (from 1991)
Port of registryRussia Kaliningrad (from 1991)
Acquired1991
Identification
Statusin service
General characteristics
Type
  • cargo ship (1926–46)
  • survey ship & training ship (1961–65)
  • training ship 1965–present
Tonnage3,064 GRT (as Padua)[1]
Length114.4 m (375 ft)
Beam14.02 m (46.0 ft)
Height51.3 m (168 ft)
Draught6.8 m (22 ft)
Installed power2 × 1,000 bhp 8-cylinder diesel engines
Propulsionsail & screw
Speed17.3 knots (32.0 km/h; 19.9 mph)
Crew257[citation needed]
NotesHolds record for sailing between Hamburg and Australia via Chile: 8 months and 23 days

Kruzenshtern or Krusenstern (Russian: Крузенштерн) is a four-masted barque (Russian: барк) that was built in 1926 at Geestemünde in Bremerhaven, Germany as Padua (named after the Italian city). She was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation and renamed after the early 19th-century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann von Krusenstern (1770–1846). She is now a Russian sail training ship.

Of the four remaining Flying P-Liners, the former Padua is the only one still in use, mainly for training purposes, with her home ports in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg).

  1. ^ Harnack, Edwin P (1938) [1903]. All About Ships & Shipping (7th ed.). London: Faber and Faber. p. 17.