When the 1885 sailing ship Wavertree returns to South Street Seaport Museum in September after an $11 million restoration, she will occupy the berth that has been home to the four-masted barque Peking for the last 41 years. Peking will trade places with Wavertree in Staten Island, where the massive square-rigger will undergo preparations for a transAtlantic voyage, presumably her last, onboard a heavy-lift ship back to Hamburg, Germany, where she was originally built. There, she will be restored to begin a new life as the centerpiece of a new maritime museum being built by the German government.
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