Kruzenshtern

built at the shipyard of J.C. Tecklenborg at Geestemünde as the last four-masted cargo bark in 1926, launched on 24 June 1926 under the name "Padua", she was the last of the famous fleet of "Flying P-liners" of the Hamburg shipping company of F. Laeisz.

sailed a total of eight voyages round the Horn to Chile between August 1926 and February 1932 loaded a cargo of nitrate in most cases.

was laid up then until the end of 1933, put back in service with a government subsidy and sailed in October 1933 for Wallaroo, South Australia, to load grain consigned to Avonmouth, England. after another voyage to South Australia she sailed 4 voyages once more to Chile, last voyage as a cargo ship from Bremerhaven in October 1938 to Chile and Australia ending in Glasgow in July 1939.

laid up in Flensburg during the war, towed from Hamburg to Swinemünde in January 1946 to be handed over to the Soviet Union as a war prize, renamed the "Kruzenshtern".

remained in harbour until 1959, refit in 1959-61, she was fitted with her first auxiliary engines.

1961-65 she conducted hydrographic and oceanographic surveys in the Atlantic, West Indies and Mediterranean while training naval cadets.

transferred to the USSR Ministry of Fisheries and homeported at Riga in 1965. sailtraining ship for seamen and officers for the fishing fleet.

1968-72 fitted with new engines and her poop was extended to merge with the midship Liverpool house.

1974 the "Kruzenshtern" and the "Tovarishch" were the first Soviet ships that entered an international Tall Ships Race, took part in the American Bicentennial transatlantic race in 1976 and since then she is a regular participant in other Tall Ships Races and tall ship events in the West, including the 1992 Columbus Regatta and Tall Ships 2000.

1980 change of the registered port to Tallinn, Estonia, 1991 change of the registered port to Kaliningrad, Russia, operated by the Kaliningrad Marine College, Russian Ministry of Fishery since 1992

the ship sailed around the world in 1995-96 in the steps of Johann Adam von Krusenstern who gave his name to the ship. The voyage under Captain Oleg Sedov covered 34,242 nautical miles and took 238 days including the journeys around Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, Route: Kaliningrad - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Rio de Janeiro - Kap Horn - Tahiti - Moorea - Hawaii - Tokyo - Wladiwostok - Singapur - Kap der Guten Hoffnung - Kapstadt - Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Kaliningrad

Johann Adam von Krusenstern (1770-1846), a Russian-Baltic seaman and traveller, captained the first Russian sailing expedition around the world.