Kruzenshtern — Four-Masted Barque Model, Large Painted | Fully Assembled

One of the last of the Flying P-Liners still sailing, and the second-largest traditional sailing vessel in operation anywhere.

Built plank on frame in hardwood and hand-painted in her white-banded black livery. Four masts of square rig means an enormous amount of hand-knotted line — this is one of the largest rigging jobs the workshop takes on.

Construction

• Large plank-on-frame hull, hand-painted with white gun-port-style banding
• Four masts, barque-rigged, with complete hand-knotted standing and running rigging
• Hand-stitched linen sails on every yard
• Deck detail: boats, davits, deckhouses, winches, wheel and rails
• Metal anchors and wooden rudder
• Solid wood base and engraved brass nameplate
• Fully assembled

History

She was launched at Geestemünde in 1926 as Padua, the last of the Laeisz Flying P-Line windjammers built for the Chilean nitrate and Australian grain trades — the final generation of commercial sailing ships built to compete with steam. Handed to the Soviet Union as war reparations in 1946, she was renamed for the admiral Adam Johann von Krusenstern, who led Russia's first circumnavigation. She still sails, now as a Russian training ship.