Flying P-Liner Peking

[Thomas Marocke]

This is how the Peking looked in 2016, when she was still a museum ship in New York.









After her restauration, she now floats in Hamburg's Hansa-Harbour.


















Scupper.




Sail winches.


View towards the bow with the heavy weather gangways.


The upper cargo hold. On the right is a cargo door between the wooden spacers to the steel hull. The hold is so large that the "Gorch Fock" would fit inside.




The cargo hold above the keel and ballast.

 

[Uwek]

Great to see, that they made a very good job with the restauration - many thanks for sharing with us

everybody interested in the restauration take a look here with some videos

Flying P-liner Peking - film "The Peking is sailing home" and others

I found a very actual documentation of the sailing home of the Flying P-liner Peking The film-documentation is 58 minutes long and very interesting. Unfortunately for a lot of members in the wrong language, it is in german, but also if you do not understand the language several sequences are...

shipsofscale.com

and maybe also

Peking - four-masted barque - photo exhibition in the Maritime museum Hamburg

during the modelling days in the Maritime Museum Hamburg I had a chance to see a small but very impressive photo exhibition of the Peking. “The Peking - across the Atlantic on a Dock Ship” These photos were made at the time Peking was transfered from New York to Germany Special exhibition with...

shipsofscale.com

 

[darnold]

Beautiful!
Do you have a picture of the restored cabin and bunk room? They were in bad shape!!

 

[Thomas Marocke]

Hi Dan!

Unfortunately, so far only the original card house on the bridge deck is equipped with furniture and card table again.


On the port side, the captain's saloon, galley and crew quarters will be completed later. The photo shows parts of the original interior, which is still being refurbished.
During the construction site tour, not everything was ready yet. The ship is still missing the lifeboats, the starboard anchor and the loading winch, which is currently in the harbor museum.

Best regards
Thomas

 

[WDO]

In my building models I have lost the realization of just how large the actual ships are. The real life images sure indications how massive these are. Thanks for the images!

 

[darnold]

Hi Dan!

Unfortunately, so far only the original card house on the bridge deck is equipped with furniture and card table again.

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On the port side, the captain's saloon, galley and crew quarters will be completed later. The photo shows parts of the original interior, which is still being refurbished.
During the construction site tour, not everything was ready yet. The ship is still missing the lifeboats, the starboard anchor and the loading winch, which is currently in the harbor museum.

Best regards
Thomas

I'm so very glad to see the money and effort being put into restoring this wonderful ship. I look forward to seeing the finished interiors. Thank you for sharing these images.

 

[danielsje]

I really appreciate the postings of pictures of real ships. These photos illustrate the details that we translate into our models. The biggest issue for me is reminding me of the scales of ship’s parts. For example, we tend to make deck rings on our models too big in scale when we see the actual size of these rings on a real ship. And the anchor chain…on this ship the anchor chain is massive…we would probably model this chain way too small in scale! Great photos…thanks!

 

[Magic Mike]

Thomas, Great photos! I was not aware of this beautiful barque but I will do some research to learn more of her history. What a grand vessel! Magic Mike