THE PAMIR

AUTHOR - Jack Churchouse

PUBLICATION - Millwood Press Wellington 1978

CONDITION - Signed by the author with a dedication to Joe Henry, co-founder of the New Zealand Ship and Marine Society. Very good condition. Inside is clean and tidy, little or no foxing even on page edges. Binding is tight. Superb. Dustwrapper very good, almost no bumping, and no tears.

PRICE - $160

DESCRIPTION - The Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign. The Pamir, a four-masted barque flying the Finnish flag, sailed into New Zealand waters at a time, during the Second World War, when her country was entering enemy status. Taken in prize, she became a puzzle and a challenge to a country at war whose lifelines stretched across vast oceans; shipping space was urgently needed but a windjammer? Sail was an anachronism. This is the story of how the New Zealand Government, in partnership with one of its historic shipping lines, the Union Steam Ship Company, commissioned and sailed the sturdy vessel between Wellington and North American ports until after the war. Voyages are reconstructed in detail, often using extracts from diaries, letters and masters' reports of the time.

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