real time video vers.4K 2160p exposure time 1/6000sec bitrate 100Mbps In 1909 the shipping company Laeisz ordered the Peking, together with the later Passat, The four-masted barque was launched on February 25, 1911 at the Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss. The construction costs amounted to 680,000 gold marks. The Peking was designed as a cargo ship for the transport of Chile nitrate. Her maiden voyage began on June 22, 1911 under Captain J. H. Hinrich Nissen. He had already commanded the five-mast full-rigged ship Preussen. The destination of her trip was Valparaíso (Chile), where she arrived on September 14th. Since the Peking had no auxiliary engines, it had to rely on tug assistance when entering and leaving Hamburg, as well as during storms in the English Channel. With full sails she was faster than steamships of that time. She was back in Hamburg on January 28, 1912. Captain Nissen received an acquittal in the maritime office proceedings for an accident resulting in the death of a sailor and then led the Peking three times on the Hamburg-Antwerp-Chile route from November 30th until she arrived in Valparaíso in August 1914 with the beginning of the First World War like eight other cargo sailors von Laeisz and 40 other German ships were interned. After the end of the war, Caleta Coloso (Chile) was returned to London under the command of Captain H. Oellrich (October 6, 1919 - January 21, 1920). On May 10, 1921, the ship went to Italy as reparation, but where it was not used for the four-masted barque. Since the sailing ships for the transfer voyage were allowed to be loaded with the saltpeter urgently needed in Europe and the saltpetre freights brought high profits, most of the sailing ships could be bought back. It was organized by the German Sailing Office. F. Laeisz succeeded in buying the Peking on January 11, 1923 for 8,500 pounds, which, adjusted for inflation, would be 486,000 pounds today. On January 25th it arrived in Cuxhaven from London under Captain Albrecht, probably with the help of the sea tug Fairplay XIV. She ran out on April 23, 1923 [13] under Captain Oellrich [14] to Valparaiso. In the years that followed, Beijing operated the Hamburg – Talcahuano route. After two trips under Captain Oellrich (1925) and then Captain Hermann Pienin. (1926) the Peking was converted into a combined cargo and training ship. In 1928 and 1929, the four-masted barque made two trips to Talcahuano under the command of Captain Jürgen Jürs. Her last voyage under the flag of F. Laeisz took the Peking in 1931/1932 under Captain Hans Rohwer to Valparaíso and then from Taltal (Chile) to Santander (Spain). After 20 trips to South America, F. Laeisz sold the ship to Shaftesbury Homes and Arethuse Training Ship, London, in 1932 as a result of the Great Depression. She was converted into a stationary training ship, renamed Arethusa (after the predecessor of the same name from the 19th century) and soon afterwards moved to Upnor near Rochester, Kent, and anchored on the Medway. [16] The yards were removed except for three at the foremast, the ship was provided with a porting strap. In 1940 the barque was drafted by the Royal Navy as accommodation, renamed Beijing again and laid up in Chatham Dockyard, Kent. After the Second World War it came to the previous owner and was given the name Arethusa back. In 1964, Arethusa was the filming location for the Miss Marple crime thriller Killer ahoy! and can be seen in it under the name HMS Battledore. On October 31, 1974, the four-masted barque was auctioned off to the J. Aron Charitable Foundation. From July 5 to July 22, 1975, the hull of the Peking was towed from Blackwall, London, to New York by the Dutch sea tug Utrecht. There it was re-rigged true to the original. With the inscription "Beijing" and home port "Hamburg" it was on the pier of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York. In October 2012 it became known that there was no longer any space in the New York harbor for the now completely ailing Beijing. The museum agreed to give the ship away, but a floating transfer of the Peking to another port was not possible without extensive repairs. On November 12, 2015, the budget committee of the German Bundestag decided to have the Beijing fetched back and restored for the Hamburg Harbor Museum, which is currently under construction, for which the Bundestag provided 26 million euros. The Peking was bought for 100 dollars. According to other sources, two Hamburg members of the Bundestag budget committee succeeded in obtaining the allocation of 120 million euros for the Hanseatic city's cultural budget in 2015. Of this, 20 million euros were calculated for the renovation of the Beijing. For political reasons, the ship was owned by the Hamburg Maritime Foundation. In May 2016 she received the order for the retrieval and professional restoration. As a result, the Peking was in September 2016 at the Caddell shipyard on Staten source Wiki Google translate

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