101 years ago the steel-hulled four-masted barque Peking, one of the last windjammers ever built, was launched at Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. She worked mostly in the nitrate and wheat trades around South America’s treacherous Cape Horn, but also saw service against her home nation during World War II while serving in the Royal Navy as HMS Pekin.

101 years ago the steel-hulled four-masted barque Peking, one of the last windjammers ever built, was launched at Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. She worked mostly in the nitrate and wheat trades around South America’s treacherous Cape Horn, but also saw service against her home nation during World War II while serving in the Royal Navy as HMS Pekin.