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The 'Pamir' [B 26743] • Photograph

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Summary

The 4 masted barque 'Pamir' at Wallaroo, which was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyards in Hamburg in 1905. On 21 September 1957 the ship was caught in Hurricane Carrie and capsized off the Azores and was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. This photograph was taken between 1931-1951 when owned by the Finnish shipping company of Gustaf Erikson and used in the Australian wheat trade. Its home port was Mariehamn.

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Physical description

Photograph; 21 cm x 13 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1931

Collection

Part of Ship Collection

Subject

Pamir (Ship)

Catalogue record

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Digitisation information

Date

30/08/2007

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,720 x 3,924 pixels (10.7 MP)

Size

32.05 MB

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