Unit History: TS Arethusa

TS Arethusa is/was indeed the SS Peking, a four masted steel barque of 3000 tons. She was built by Blohm and Voss in Hamburg in 1911, for the Flying P Line. The mast heights are (feet) 180, 180, 185, 145. Her normal route was Hamburg to Valparaiso on the nitrate trade route, and . She was formerly SS Padua, a sister in the Flying P line.
The Arethusa, which had been the last Royal Navy warship to go into action under sail alone, remained in service until 1932.
In 1975, the second Arethusa, having become hopelessly uneconomical to repair and maintain, was sold to the South Street Seaport Museum of New York to be restored to her 1911 built condition and reverting to her launched name Peking. She was replaced by a new offshore cruising ketch.