In ancient times, when there were no other ships except sailing vessels, there was no special connection between coffee and sail. But in XX century, when most freights were transferring using steamers or diesel ships, sail and coffee stayed firm connected. The point is that so delicate freights as coffee or tea cannot stand the stink of mazut, other fuels, and the neighborhood of working machines at all. That is why tea clippers haven’t die when technical era came. But their level improved.

Hulls of sailing vessels and masts became producing from the steel, shrouds and other riggings started to produce from steel ropes instead of plant. Those ships could have much bigger rig; they were much stronger and could stand strong wind. There, where the storm was really dangerous for tea clippers, captain shoot on sails with the gun, to prevent the crashing down of towers; then the real pursuit for wind-jammers started.

Those great ships, as usual, compared well with steamers in speed, and were leaders among other sailing vessels. Wind-jammers were famous in transatlantic routes – transporting of coffee from South America to Europe, in contrast to tea clippers, which went, basically, from India. So, the fleet of commercial sailing vessels didn’t die in the beginning of the XX century, but even “born in the second time”. New sailing vessels were built in 1930-s even in 1940-s. “Flying P” series were famous at that time. One german organization began the built ship, named “Poodle”. It was successful, profitable, and that organization continued the building of analogical sailing vessels, naming them with names on “P” – “Pamirs”, “Paduya”, etc.

But technique had developed, sailing vessels yielded to diesel ships. Not many from wind-jammers had survived the Second World War. One of them, from the famous “Flying P” series, passed into the ownership of USSR during the division of trophies. Standing few years on the berth of Leningrad, it was reconstructed and named “Kruzenshtern” and become the expedition ship. Sailing vessel sailed all over the world, gained world popularity. Later, “Kruzenshtern” became the training ship, as it has been till this time.

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