Priwall (barque)

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title: "Priwall (barque)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1917-ships", "ships-built-in-hamburg", "barques", "merchant-ships-of-germany", "world-war-ii-merchant-ships-of-germany", "world-war-ii-naval-ships-of-chile", "maritime-incidents-in-february-1945", "tall-ships-of-chile", "ship-fires", "windjammers"] topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priwall_(barque)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Priwall (ship, 1917).jpg
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	*Priwall (1917-41)
owner	*F. Laeisz, Hamburg (1920-41)
operator	F. Laeisz, Hamburg (1920-41)
registry	*Weimar Republic Hamburg (1920-33)
builder	Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
launched	23 June 1917
completed	March 1920
in_service	6 March 1920
out_of_service	28 February 1945
identification	*Code Letters RWLN (1920-33)
fate	Burnt out, 1945
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
tonnage	*
*<ref name	Priwall30
*4,800 DWT<ref name	Priwall
length	323 ft
beam	47 ft
depth	26 ft
sail_plan	Barque
speed	Recorded average of 16 kn over 24 hours
notes	Recorded fastest ever westward rounding of Cape Horn
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• Lautaro (1941-45) | namesake = | owner =*F. Laeisz, Hamburg (1920-41)
• Chilean Government (1941-45) | operator = F. Laeisz, Hamburg (1920-41) | registry =*Weimar Republic Hamburg (1920-33)
• Germany Hamburg (1933-41)
• Chile Chilean Navy (1941-45) | route = | ordered = | builder = Blohm & Voss, Hamburg | original_cost = | yard_number = | way_number = | laid_down = | launched = 23 June 1917 | completed = March 1920 | christened = | acquired = | maiden_voyage = | in_service = 6 March 1920 | out_of_service = 28 February 1945 | identification =*Code Letters RWLN (1920-33)
• Code Letters DIRQ (1933-41)

| fate = Burnt out, 1945 | notes =

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• 4,800 DWT | displacement = | length = 323 ft | beam = 47 ft | height = | draught = | draft = | depth = 26 ft | decks = | deck_clearance = | ramps = | ice_class = | sail_plan = Barque | power = | propulsion = | speed = Recorded average of 16 kn over 24 hours | capacity = | crew = | notes = Recorded fastest ever westward rounding of Cape Horn Priwall was a four-masted steel-hulled barque with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails. Priwall was used on the nitrate trade route to the west coast of South America; she also made several voyages from South Australia's Spencer Gulf grain ports to Europe.

History and performance

While still at the builders, Priwall (with other German merchant vessels) was identified in 1919 for confiscation by the Allies as World War I reparations. However, due to the incomplete state of the ship, delivery to the Allies was not enforced and thus allowed the Laeisz company to finish construction – and, after outfitting, to operate the ship as intended, carrying general cargo outbound and nitrate or grain to Europe.

Priwall was one of the Flying P-Liners that enhanced the reputation of her owners. As with all Laeisz ships, Priwall was well maintained, and the company's captains were known as fine steersmen and bold sailors. During a 1932 voyage on Christmas Day, the ship covered 384 nmi in 24 hours (an average speed of 16 kn). by a commercial sailing ship in five days and fourteen hours under Captain Adolf Hauth.

Her final voyage under Laeisz ownership commenced on 23 May 1939 at Hamburg, bound for Valparaiso. During the voyage, on a rare mid-ocean meeting in the South Atlantic, Priwall passed by the Finnish barque Lawhill en route from South Australia to Europe with a cargo of grain; Priwall also sighted the liner . The ship rounded Cape Horn on 21 July in the gale-force winds of the southern winter as the last commercial windjammer completing this east-to-west passage, and reached the sheltered anchorage of Corral, Chile. There the crew maneuvered the mizzen upper top yard to the foremast to replace its broken upper top yard. Continuing on to Talcahuano to off-load freight, she finally arrived at Valparaiso on 3 September 1939. Priwall was then interned at Valparaiso at the onset of the Second World War. In 1941, to avoid potential seizure by the Allies, the ship was deeded as a gift to the Republic of Chile in a ceremony attended by the Governor of Valparaíso, Mr. Alfredo Rodríguez Mac-Iver. Renamed Lautaro, she was used as a cargo carrying training ship by the Chilean Navy. On 28 February 1945, while loading nitrate, she caught fire off the Peruvian coast and was destroyed. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Lautaro_ex_Priwall_-_StateLibQld_70_149964.jpg" caption="''Lautaro'' ex ''Priwall'', loaded with nitrate, burning north of [[Iquique]] on February 28th 1945"] ::

On 8 March 1945 the SV Lautaro sank while being towed by the SS Ucayali who tried to tow it to Callao, Peru (north of Iquique).

Captains

F. Laeisz Shipping Company:

• Jürgen Jürs (1920–21)
• Carl Brockhöft (1921–24)
• Jürgen Jürs (1925–28)
• K. Schubert (1928–29)
• H. Töpper (1930–31)
• Robert Clauß (1932–35)
• Jürgen Jürs (1935–36)
• Adolf Hauth (1937–1939)

Voyages

Voyages made by Priwall under Laeisz ownership:

::data[format=table] | From | To | Time (days) | Year | |---|---|---|---| | Cuxhaven, Germany | San Antonio, Chile | 76 | 1923 | | Pisagua, Chile | Cuxhaven | 128 | 1923-24 | | Hamburg | Talcahuano, Chile | 99 | 1928 | | Hamburg | Talcahuano | 94 | 1928-29 | | Iquique, Chile | Dunkirk, France | | 1929 | | Hamburg | Talcahuano | 89 | 1930 | | Mejillones, Chile | Brügge, Belgium | 99 | 1930 | | Hamburg | Valparaiso, Chile | 87 | 1930 | | Taltal, Chile | Brügge, Belgium | 81 | 1930 | | Hamburg | Port Lincoln, Australia | 138 | 1932 | | Port Victoria, Australia | Barry, Wales | 106 | 1933 | | Hamburg | Wallaroo, Australia | 66 | 1932-33 | | Hamburg | Port Victoria | 65 | 1933-34 | | Port Victoria | Queenstown, Ireland | 108 | 1934 | | Hamburg | Port Victoria | 83 | 1934-35 | | Port Victoria | Queenstown | 91 | 1935 | | Hamburg | Valparaiso | 71 | 1938 | | Hamburg | Valparaiso | 109 | 1939 | ::

Stamps

Priwall was depicted on a postage stamp issued by the Falkland Islands.

Bibliography

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References

1. "LLOYD'S REGISTER, SAILING VESSELS". Plimsoll Ship Data.
2. "Priwall". Fredrik Sandström.
3. "Priwall". Lars Bruzelius.
4. {{harvnb. Carter. 2004
5. Randier, Jean. ''Men and Ships around Cape Horn 1616-1939''. New York: David McKay Company, Inc. 1969, p. 341
6. In 1935, she 'won' the [[Grain race. Great Grain Race]] by sailing from [[Port Victoria, South Australia. Port Victoria]] to [[Cobh. Queenstown]] in 91 days. In 1938, ''Priwall'' recorded the fastest ever ''westward'' rounding of [[Cape Horn]]"Rounding the Horn" is traditionally understood to involve sailing the roughly one thousand miles from [[50th parallel south. 50 degrees south]] on one coast of South America to 50 degrees south on the other coast, the two benchmark latitudes of a Horn run
7. Stark, Willam F. ''The Last Time Around Cape Horn. The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer [[Pamir (ship). Pamir]]''. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. 2003; p. 147 {{ISBN. 0-7867-1233-3
8. {{harvnb. Drumm. 2001
9. "Cape Horn". Bjoern Moritz.
10. {{harvnb. Parrott. 2004

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