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Pommern

F2. Maritime Culture, Heritage, Archaeology, Art and Museums

Definition

Finnish four-masted barque preserved at Mariehamn.

Pommern is a four-masted steel barque built in 1903 by J. Reid & Co. at Glasgow as Mneme, later owned by the Aland shipowner Gustaf Erikson, who used her in the Australian grain trade until 1939. She is preserved at Mariehamn in the Aland Islands, Finland, as a museum ship of the Aland Maritime Museum and is unusual for surviving in her original sailing condition, never converted to a hulk or motor vessel. Pommern is one of the few intact windjammers of the last commercial sailing era.

Source: Aland Maritime Museum, Mariehamn; four-masted barque built 1903 (as Mneme), preserved museum ship.