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  2. Pamir (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Pamir was a four-masted barque built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz. One of their famous Flying P-Liners, she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium's inability to finance much-needed repairs or ...

  3. Passat (ship) - Wikipedia

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    The Kruzenshtern meeting the Passat on the occasion of her one hundredth anniversary (2011). Passat's true sister ship is the Peking. The Pamir has often been, and is still discussed as Passat's sister ship because both ships were owned and operated by the same consortium of German shipowners in the 1950s.

  4. Flying P-Liner - Wikipedia

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    Potosi, (barque) built 1895, sold 1923, caught fire and sunk off Argentina in 1925; Preussen II, (full-rigged ship) built 1902, beached in 1910 after being rammed by a steamer; and the four-masted barques Pamir, built 1905, capsized and sunk in 1957, 80 died, 6 rescued. Pisagua, built 1892, stranded 1912 South Shetlands

  5. Notable ship visits to Wellington - Wikipedia

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    Pamir was a steel-hulled four-masted barque built in 1905 for a German company. In 1931 she was sold to a Finnish company. Pamir arrived in Wellington on 29 July 1941 with a cargo of guano from the Seychelles and a crew of 14 Finns, one Swede, seven New Zealanders and one Englishman. [14]

  6. Peking (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Peking is a steel-hulled four-masted barque. A so-called Flying P-Liner of the German company F. Laeisz , it was one of the last generation of cargo-carrying iron-hulled sailing ships used in the nitrate trade and wheat trade around Cape Horn .

  7. Moshulu - Wikipedia

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    The four-masted barque Moshulu. Moshulu was made famous by the books of Eric Newby.At the age of 18 he was apprenticed aboard the Moshulu, joining the ship in Belfast in 1938 and sailing to Port Lincoln in Australia with a load of ballast stone in 82 days, a good passage for a windjammer.

  8. Take a look inside a huge Peru navy ship in Miami. There are ...

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    The B.A.P. Unión, a colossal four-masted flagship of the Peruvian Navy, enters through the Government Cut early Wednesday morning on its way to dock at the Maurice Ferré Park in Miami for a ...

  9. Category:Four-masted ships - Wikipedia

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