Pechili

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The Pechili in the English Channel

The Petschili was a four-masted steel barque owned by the shipping company F. Laeisz from Hamburg . She was launched in 1903 and was destroyed by a storm at the anchorage in Valparaíso in 1919 .

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The Petschili , named after the bay and province of the same name in China (until 1928, Petschili, Chinese北 直隸 (Běizhílì) = North Zhili ) was a typical Laeisz four-masted barque , a well-made ship, strongly built and fast against storms of the South Atlantic for the voyages around Cape Horn . Made of steel as a three-island ship according to tried-and-tested plans (see Placilla ) as the first four-masted barque manufactured by Blohm & Voss , she was used in the saltpetre voyage since 1903 . Like the Pangani, which was built at Tecklenborg that same year, she had no direct sister ship. Under Captain Carl Martin Prützmann, she made three so-called round trips to Chile and back to Europe, always under 87 days the outward and return journey. In 1905, the ship under Captain Prützmann had her fastest journey from the English Channel to Talcahuano in Chile in 59 days . The Petschili took another nine round trips to the saltpeter coast under Captain A. Teschner. Their 13th trip (from Hamburg May 1, 1914) ended in July 1914 in Valparaíso, as the First World War had meanwhile broken out. The tall ship was interned and anchored in the port of Valparaíso for the next five years. On July 12, 1919 one of the dreaded heavy northern storms (Norder, span. El nortazo - Chilean northern storm) broke over the region , which was fatal for some sailors like steamers, in some cases with loss of life. After both anchor chains were broken, the large four-masted barque, incapable of maneuvering without sails, was thrown onto the beach between Fort Pudeto and the Valparaiso suburb of El Baron and was totally lost. Except for the mizzen mast stump below the mizzen pardunas , the large barque was completely de-masted and suffered irreparable damage to the underwater hull (keel break) as a result of the hard stranding on rocky ground. The remaining crew could be saved without loss of life. The Petschili was one of the few total losses of the four- and five-masted ships of the shipping company Laeisz (next to the Prussia (1910), Pitlochry (1913) and Pangani (1913, 30 dead), all of which were lost in the sea area of ​​the English Channel ).

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literature

  • Hans-Jörg Furrer: The four- and five-masted square sailors in the world . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1984, ISBN 3-7822-0341-0 , p. 164.
  • Peter Klingbeil: Flying P-Liner - The sailing ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz . Verlag "Die Hanse" GmbH, Hamburg 2000; ISBN 3-434-52562-9 , pp. 32 f, 142, 144.

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