Peking Prow

by James Aiken

Title

Peking Prow

Artist

James Aiken

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

The prow of the historical ship Peking still cuts through the water in its berth at the South Street Seaport of New York City. Rendered in luminous black and white.

Built in Hamburg, Germany in 1911, the mighty four-masted barque Peking is one of the famous �Flying P Liners� of F. Laeisz Lines. Employed in the nitrate trade, Peking made voyages from Europe to the west coast of South America with general cargo and returned filled with guano for use in the making of fertilizer and explosives. Peking was made famous by the Irving Johnson film Around Cape Horn which documented her 1929 passage around the southern tip of South America in hurricane conditions. (Information obtained from southstreetseaport.org)

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February 19th, 2015

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