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Nine decks of a converted brick warehouse hold one of the largest private collections of maritime history in the world at the International Maritime Museum, which opened in 2008 in the oldest surviving warehouse of Hamburg's Speicherstadt. The vast nineteenth-century Kaispeicher B, dating from 1879, was restored to house the lifetime collection of the journalist and historian Peter Tamm, who from boyhood amassed an extraordinary trove of ship models, paintings, uniforms, instruments, plans and a...