Pamir

A four-masted steel barque built in 1905 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, as Yard No. 180. Her dimensions were: 96,34×14,04×7,99 meters [316'0×46'0×26'2] and tonnage: 3020 GRT and 2777 NRT.

Equipped with an donkey engine and Jarvis' patent brace whinches. Rigged with royals over double topgallant and top-sails.

1905 July 29: Launched at the shipyard of Blohm & Voss, Hamburg.
1905 October 18: Delivered to F. Laeisz, Hamburg. [Boberg has July 29]. Assigned the official German signal RNVFI [?]. Captain M. Prützmann became her first master.
1905 November 12: Sailed from Lizard Point to Valparaiso in 70 days.
1906: Sailed from Lizard Point to Valparaiso in 64 days.
1906: Sailed from Iquique to Scilly Islands in 75 days.
1907: Sailed from Lizard Point to Valparaiso in 65 days.
1911 May - 1912 March: In command of Captain R. Miete.
1914: In command of Captain Jürgen Jürs.
1914 October 1 - 1920 March: Laid up in a bay near Palma, Canary Islands, during the First World War.
1920 March 17: Turned over to the Italian government as war damage compensation.
1924 February: Bought back by F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 7000. Assigned the official German signal RDWC.
1924 May - 1926 December: In command of Captain Hinrich Nissen.
1925: Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 75 days or 71 days from Ushant.
1926 December: In command of Captain Oellrich.
1926 December - 1929 April: In command of Captain Brockhöft.
1927: Sailed from Lizard Point to Valparaiso in 68 days.
1928 January 20 - May 2: Sailed from Taltal to Delfzijl in 102 days.
1928 June 28: Left Hamburg for Chile.
1928: Sailed from Talcahuano to Ipswich in 83 days.
1928/29: Sailed from Iquique to Prawle Point in 86 days.
1929 April 23 - July 7: Sailed from Hamburg to Talcahuano in 75 days.
1929 April - 1930 November: In command of Captain Robert Clauss.
1930 November - 1931: In command of Captain W. Schaer.
1930: Sailed from Rotterdam to Talcahuano in 90 days.
1930: Sailed from Iquique to Ghent in 85 days.
1930/31: Sailed from Hamburg to Corral, Spain, in 79 days.
1931: Sailed from Iquique to Bordeaux in 108 days.
1931: Sailed from Bordeaux to Hamburg in 39 days.
1931 November 6: Sold to Gustav Erikson, Mariehamn, Åland, for DEM 42.000 [£ 2700]. Assigned the official Åland signal TPSR.
1931 November - 1933 August: In command of Captain Karl Gerhard Sjögren.
1931/32: Sailed from Hamburg to Port Lincoln in 87 days.
1932: Sailed from Helsingør to Port Lincoln in 77 days.
1933: Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth in 92 days.
1933 August - 1936 July: In command of Captain J. Mauritz Mattsson.
1936 September - 1937 February: In command of Captain Uno Mörn.
1937 February - 1937 June: In command of Captain Linus Lindvall.
1937 July - 1941 August: In command of Captain Verner Björkfelt.
1938 February 15 - 26: Sailed from Auckland to Nouméa in 11 days.
1938 April 15 - July 30: Sailed from Nouméa to Nordenham in 106 days.
1938 August 16 - 98-28: Sailed from Nordenham to Göteborg.
1938 September 25 - December-23: Sailed from Göteborg to Port Victoria in 89 days.
1939 March 8 - June 2: Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth f.o. in 96 days.
1939 June 27: Arrived to Southampton.
1939 July 22 - 25: Sailed from Southampton to Göteborg.
1939 July - 1940 Feb: Laid up in Gothenburg.
1940 March 13 - May 14: Sailed from Göteborg to Montevideo f.o. in 61 days.
1940 May 22: Arrived to Bahia Blanca.
1940 August 3 - September 14: Sailed from Bahia Blanca to Assumption Island, Seychelles, in 42 days.
1940 October 17 - December 16: Sailed from Assumption Island, Seychelles, to New Plymouth, NZ, in 60 days.
1941 February 20 - April 28: Sailed from New Plymouth, NZ, to Assumption Island, Seychelles, in 67 days.
1941 June 18 - July 30: Sailed from Assumption Island, Seychelles, to Wellington, NZ, in 42 days.
1941 August 3: Seized as prize of war by the New Zealand government and put on the New Zealand - United States trade for the Union Steamship Company.
1947: Sailed from Wellington to Lizard for orders in 78 days with a cargo of wool and tallow.
1947 December 22: Arrived in the London River under tow of Watkin's tugs Cérvia and Zealandia. She was taken to Victoria Dock where the cargo was discharged.
1948: Sailed from Antwerpen to Wellington, NZ, in 109 days.
1948 November 12: Restored to the owners.
1948 December - 1949 October: In command of Captain Verner Björkfelt.
1949 May 28 - October 2: Sailed from Port Victoria to Falmouth f.o. in 127 days with a cargo of 4233 tons of barley in sacks.
1950 December: Sold together with Passat to van der Loo, Antwerpen, to be scrapped.
1951 June 1: Sold to H. Schliewen, Lübeck, to be used as a sail-training ship. Assigned the official German signal DKEF.
1954 April: Sold at auction to Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesbank for DEM 310.000.
1956: Sold to Stiftung Pamir und Passat, Lübeck.
1957 August 10: Sailed from Buenos Ayres with a cargo of 3780 tons of grain in bulk.
1957 September 21: Foundered in the hurricane Carrie off the Azores in position 35°57'N, 40°W. Out of the crew of 86 only six men survived.

References

Four- and five masted ships, general references.
anon.: Överlevande från Pamir.
Longitude 28, Stockholm, 1992. pp 86-87.
Almgren, Thorsten: Två resor med Pamir.
Longitude 16, Stockholm, 1980. pp 59-62, ill.
Boberg, Lennart: Berättelsen om Pamir.
Longitude Nr 33, Stockholm, 1997. pp 2-16, ill.
Boberg, Lennart: Pamir. Fyrmastbarken Pamir 1905-1957.
Wiken, HöganÄs, 1990. 8vo, 200 pp, ill.
Boberg, Lennart: Ett dystert 40-årsminne.
Ålands Sjöfart, Mariehamn, 1997. pp 122-124, ill.
Brenneke, Jochen & Dummer, Karl-Otto: Viermastbark Pamir - ihr Schicksal im Zentrum der Hurrikans "Carrie".
Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford, 1986.
Burmester, Heinz: Mit der Pamir um Kap Horn.
Gerhard Stalling AG, Hamburg, 1974.
Burmester, Heinz: Die Viermastbark Pamir, ein Frachtsegler des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Deutscher Seefahrtsarchiv 2, Bremerhaven, 1978. pp 61-84, ill.
Churchouse, Jack: The Pamir - under the New Zealand Ensign.
Millwood Press Ltd., Wellington, 1978. 4to, 284 pp.
Grönstrand, Lars: Åländska skeppsporträtt i ord och bild.
Ålands Tidnings-tryckeri, Mariehamn, 1978. 8vo, xxvii, 291 pp, ill
Hauser, Heinrich: Fair Winds and Foul.
Liveright Inc., New York 1932.
Hurst & Blackett, London, 1934. 8vo, 254 pp.
Hauser, Heinrich: Die letzten Segelschiffe. Einhundertundsehn Tage auf der Pamir.
Koehlers, Herford, 1976. 8vo, 152 pp.
Henderson, Murray J.: Sista gången runt hornet.
Sjöhistorisk Årsskrift för Åland 1988-89, Mariehamn, 1990. pp 67-91, ill. Pamirs resa Wellington - Port Victoria - Falmouth 1949.
Morris, Roger: Sail Change. Tall Ships in New Zealand Waters.
David Bateman, Aukland, NZ, 1981. Obl4to, 48 pp, ill.
Der Untergang des Segelschulschiffes Pamir.
Horst Hamecher, Kassel, 1973. 8vo, 327 pp. The findings of Seeamt Lübeck.
Pitcher, N. Sotheby & MacLeod, T.S. & Froud, P. & Evison, N. & Brooking, J.H.C.: Other Impressions of the Pamir.
Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), pp 159-160.
Robertshaw, Geoff: Impressions of the Pamir.
Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), p 117.
Thesleff, Holger: Tankar kring den sista veteseglingen - ett fyrtioårsminne.
Sjöhistorisk Årsskrift för Åland 1988-89, Mariehamn, 1990. pp 40-49, ill.
Tunstall-Behrens, Hilary: Pamir. Voyage to Rio in a four-masted barque.
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1956. 8vo, 212 pp, ill.
Wallert, Evert: Pamir-natt i Ålands hav - Ett 25-årsminne.
Rospiggen Nr 20, Elmsta, 1959. pp 7-10,ill.
Waters, Sydney D.: Pamir - the story of a sailingship.
A.H. & W. Reed, Wellington, 1949.
Williams, C.H.: Points from the Pamir's Past.
Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), pp 156-158, ill.
Williams, C.H.: A Rare Sight in London River.
Sea Breezes Vol. 5 (1948), pp 151-155, ill.
Wells, Richard E.: The Vancouver Voyages of the Barque Pamir.
Sono Nis Press, Victoria, BC, 1992. Sq8vo, 137 pp, ill.
Willner, Horst: Pamir - ihr Untergang und die Irrtürmer des Seeamtes.
E.S. Mittler & Sohn, Hereford & Bonn, 1991.

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