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''Pamir'' was one of the Flying P-Liner s, the famous sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. HISTORY The four-masted Barque had a Steel hull and was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg , where she was launched on July 29 , 1905 . She had an overall length of 114.5 m (375 ft), a beam of about 14 m (46 ft) and a draught of 7.25 m (23.5 ft). Her three masts stood 51.2 m (168 ft) above deck and the main yard was some 28 m (92 ft) wide. She had a Tonnage of 3,020 GRT (2,777 net). She carried a total of some 3,800 m² (40,900 ft²) of sails and could reach a top speed of 16 Knots (30 km/h). Her regular cruise speed was around 13 knots. ''Pamir'' was the third of eight sister ships. She was commissioned on October 18 , 1905 and used by the Laeisz company in the South America n Nitrate trade. Until 1914 she made 8 cruises to Chile , taking between 64 and about 70 days for a one-way trip from Hamburg to Valparaíso or Iquique , the foremost Chilean nitrate ports of the time. During World War I , she stayed in port in the Canary Islands , and was handed over to Italy as War Reparation in 1920 . In 1924 , the F. Laeisz company bought her back for a price of £ 7,000 and put her into service in the nitrate trade again. In 1931 , Laeisz sold her to the Finnish shipping company of Gustav Erikson which used her in the Australia n Wheat trade. In World War II , ''Pamir'' was seized as a war prize by New Zealand on August 3 , 1941 , while the ship was in port in Wellington . Subsequently, she made 10 commercial trips between New Zealand and San Francisco and embarked 1947 - 1948 on a trip around the world. In 1948 , she was returned to Erikson and made one last voyage to Australia. On her journey to Finland, she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn in 1949 . In 1950 , the ship was about to be scrapped, but was saved from that fate by a German shipowner who bought her and the '' Passat '' (often erroneously believed to be a sister of ''Pamir''). She was modernized, retrofitted with an auxiliary engine and used as a cargo and sail-training ship on the route to Argentina . In 1954 , the ships were bought by a German consortium. They made five more voyages, but since they were no longer profitable, they were to be decommissioned after their last voyage in 1957 . THE LAST VOYAGE On . The search for survivors lasted nine days and was organized by the U.S. Coast Guard cutter ''Absecon''. However, only 4 crewmen and two cadets were rescued alive. The shipwreck was perceived as a tragedy around the world and received extensive press coverage. CAPTAINS OF THE PAMIR
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REFERENCES Parrott, Daniel. (2003). ''Tall Ships Down - the last voyages of the Pamir, Albatross, Marques, Pride of Baltimore and the Maria Asumpta''. McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-139092-8. |