Sailing ship Passat The sleek ship once belonged to the fleet of the famous Flying P-Liner. It was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for the grain and at a cost of 680 000 Salpetertransport Goldmark On Christmas Eve of 1911 was the "Passat", for the Laeisz the first trip from Hamburg to Cape Horn to Chile. With a favorable wind, they sailed up quickly to 18 knots and defied then the emerging competition of steamships. In 1951, the "Passat" in a freight-carrying training ship rebuilt and received a 1000-hp engine. In 1957 she fell on the way home from Montevideo in a heavy storm and had to enter with whipped side in Lisbon. As the sister ship "Pamir" had recently perished under similar circumstances, was the "Passat" decommissioned. Oil on canvas