Final weekend to visit the historic Peking

The Peking, a steel-hulled four-masted barqueis, will soon be leaving the South Street Seaport in New York City after 40 years.  This will be the final weekend you can visit the maritime museum which was purchased by the Seaport Museum in 1974.

On September 6th she'll leave Pier 16 for Caddell Drydock where she'll spend the winter in preparation before a spring transfer to Germany in a dockship.

Peking will be traveling to Stiftung Hamburg Maritim, the maritime museum of Hamburg, and receive a 30 million euros restoration.

Captain Jonathan Boulware, Seaport Museum Executive Director, wrote the following message on southstreetseaportmuseum.org:

"Although it will sadden many of us for her to leave New York, we have given Peking an outstanding new home in the city of her birth, which has ample funding available for her restoration."