Postage Stamp "barque Padua" Editorial Photo

"Kruzenshtern" is a four-masted bark, a Russian training sailing vessel. It was built in 1925-1926 at the shipyard. Tecklenborg in Geestemuende near Bremerhaven (Germany), the descent is named Padua, in 1946, moved on reparations in the property of the USSR and renamed in honor of the famous Russian Explorer Admiral Ivan Fedorovich Krusenstern. The home port of the ship is Kaliningrad. The vessel made numerous transatlantic and round-the-world expeditionsThe barque Padua was founded on 24 June 1925 at the shipyard `Johann, it was` in Geestemunde now Bremerhaven under the serial number S. 408, the snap-in is installed at the shipyard Blohm. "Padua" belonged to the famous series of sailing ships, which had a common name "flying P-Liner" (Flying-P-Liner), the names of all ships in this series began with "P": "Paniani" (Pangani), "Pechili" (Petschili), "Pamir" (Pamir), "Passat" (Passat), "Pomerania" (Pommern), "Beijing" (Peking), "Potosi" (Potosi), "Prussia" (pommern) preußen). This series of ships was built by the Hamburg steamship company "F. Laeisz" (F. Laeisz). All these ships wore a blue pennant with the initials of the firm FL.