Laeisz fleet – Flying P-Liners

Deep-laden with saltpetre, the 4-masted barque Padua heads south for Cape Horn.

The 4-masted barque Pamir rounds Cape Horn on 11 July 1949.

The 4-masted barque Pamir commences her last voyage as an engineless ship.

The 4-masted barque Parma becalmed in the Doldrums.

The 4-masted barque Passat in the Trade Winds.

The 4-masted barque Peking puts to sea with 60000 bags of sodium nitrate in her belly.

Penang as she was prior to 1933, returning to Europe by way of Cape Horn.

Pommern heads north from the Great Australian Bight into Spencer Gulf.

Preussen, the pride of the Laeisz fleet was, the only 5-masted full-rigged ship ever built.

Priwall achieves the fastest ever east to west rounding of Cape Horn by a commercial sailing ship (1938).