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Museumsschiffe - Geschichte, Technik, Schiffe (Typenkompass)

For this Typenkompass, Hans Karr visited countless museum ships, regardless of class, mainly in Germany. There are a lot of them: icebreakers, riverboats, trawlers, research ships, windjammers, sea rescue cruisers - a real treasure trove for ship enthusiasts.
It is precisely this wealth of different types that makes this Typenkompass so appealing. All images and descriptive texts are supplemented by clear tables and technical data.

Product details

Author:	Hans Karr
Details:	128 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm / 8.1 x 5.5 in, paperback
Illustrations:	108 colour photos
Publisher:	Pietsch Verlag (D, 2012)
Series:	Typenkompass
ISBN:	9783613506886

Peking - Schicksal und Wiedergeburt eines legendären Hamburger Segelschiffes

The four-masted barque Peking, built by Blohm & Voss in 1911, is one of the last of the fast cargo sailing ships that were admiringly called the Flying-PLiner. After her fate seemed sealed, she was saved and secured for Hamburg.
How this came about is explained by Matthias Gretzschel in this book, in which he vividly traces the dramatic fate of the ship against the background of the city's, economic and maritime history: from the founding of the F. Laeisz shipping company to the great era of saltpeter shipping, the turmoil of the First World War, the sale of the Peking to England and its time as a museum ship in New York.

Separate chapters report on the threatened scrapping and the fortunate rescue, which was only made possible by the financial support of the German Bundestag. Finally, the return to Germany in a special ship, the restoration at the Peters Werft in Wewelsfleth and the role of the Peking as a landmark of the future German Port Museum in Hamburg are described in detail.
The exciting text is accompanied by historical image documents and current color photos.

Product details

Author:	Matthias Gretzschel
Details:	176 pages, 28 x 24 cm / 11 x 9 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Koehler in Maximilian Verlag (D, 2020)
ISBN:	9783782213844

Cap San Diego - Museumsschiff für Hamburg

Like no other landmark, the Cap San Diego embodies the port city of Hamburg with its elegant lines. Since 1986, it has been a dignified reminder of the great era of general cargo shipping. In recent years, the museum ship has delighted countless visitors. Not only the engine room and the cargo holds invite you to visit, but also on the command bridge and in the radio room you can get a vivid impression of how the fast general cargo and refrigerated ship, which was put into service in 1962, crossed the South Atlantic.

As a "born Hamburg ship" - designed, built and equipped in Hamburg, sailed by the Hamburg Süd shipping company - she found her retirement home in her home port. As the last ship of her kind, the Cap San Diego is an eloquent testimony to German engineering in shipbuilding. It is the largest seaworthy museum cargo ship in the world. Trips on the "white swan of the South Atlantic", built in 1961, are a very special experience and offer guests exciting insights into ship technology from yesterday and today.

Author Kurt Flechsenhar and Ann-Kathrin Cornelius, managing director of the Cap San Diego operating company, have brought the museum-like and seaworthiness of the Cap San Diego to the fore in their book, as the Cap San Diego is the largest seaworthy museum cargo ship in the world. They document the special knowledge of the former crew members in order to secure it for future generations.

Product details

Author:	Kurt Flechsenhar, Ann-Kathrin Cornelius
Details:	240 pages, 28 x 24 cm / 11 x 9 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous b&w and colour photos
Publisher:	Koehler in Maximilian Verlag (D, 2019)
ISBN:	9783782213585