Peking Rigging
by James Aiken
Title
Peking Rigging
Artist
James Aiken
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Ropes, lines, and pulleys criss-cross in abstract lines and forms on a shipped named Peking at the South Street Seaport in New York City.
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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