Animation of the German ship Preussen (1902) the only five-masted merchant sailing ship ever built

Preussen was a marvel of a ship. One of the largest and most sophisticated sailing ships in history. A steel-hulled, five-masted, ship-rigged sailing ship built in 1902 and named after the German kingdom of Prussia.
Until the launch of Royal Clipper, a sail cruise liner in 2000, she was the only five-masted full-rigged ship ever built and carried six square sails on each mast.
Not only did she have a fascinating career at a time when the sun was setting on the great clipper ships, she also had a fascinating, and abrupt end in 1910, and ended up wrecked in the English Channel near Dover. Parts of her hull can still be seen today.
This animation is designed to go alongside an episode of the Mariner's Mirror Podcast in which Dr Sam Willis speaks with Frank Scott, a retired naval aviator and qualified square rig ship-master, who commanded various square riggers ranging from 80 to 800 gross tonnes. In his long sail training career he served in fourteen square riggers, under seven different national flags.
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