to break through the vessel and will significantly reduce motion induced by wave impact. The two-masted w indsurfer-style sail rig will enable a top speed of around 15 knots. The rig can operate effi ciently with both sails set or just one. Each sail is controlled by a single sheet, and the sails are stowed in a boom-mounted cradle when not in use. (M ayflower Autonomous Ship Ltd. , 4 2 Sisna Park Road, Estover, Plymouth, PL6 7FH , UK; www. mayBowerautoship.com) ... Five German shipyards are competing for the multi-million-dollar contract for the repair and reconstruction of the 377-foot barque Peking, including a bid by Blohm + Voss, her original builder. The 1911 steel-hulled square rigger is being transferred from her long-time home at South Street Seaport M useum in Manhatten to the new Stift ung H amburg Maritim in Germany. The H amburg organization, with help from the German government, will oversee a full restoration of the ship, which was built in that city in 1911 as one of the famo us Flying-P liners. TI1e ship was towed from her berth at South Street las t fall and is n ow at Cad-
Peking at a Staten Island shipyard with her yards on deck, awaiting final p reparations far transport to Germany.
Peking leaving South Street under tow in September 2 01 6. dell Dry Dock and Repair in Staten Island, preparing for her upcoming transAtlantic voyage back to Germany aboard a dock ship from the Bremen shipping company Combilifr, with an anticipated arrival in Germany by the end ofJune. The restoration work will include a large-scale renovation of the outer plating, reconstruction of
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the rigging, and restoration of the interior. (www. stiftung-hamburg-maritim.de; www. southstreetseaportmuseum.org) ... In November, a team of divers set out to take video footage of a half dozen historic World War II shipwrecks off the coast of Indonesia, only to discover that the ships had been plundered by salvors. Several of the shipwreck sites had been damaged and were missing significant sections, while the wreck of an American submarine is gone entirely. The shipwrecks include three Dutch and two British war-
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