Pamir

Built in 1904/05 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard for the Hamburg shipping company Laeisz and used to carry nitrate from Chile to Germany.

At the outbreak of the First World War she was at Santa Cruz de la Palma in the Canaries and was given to Italy as reparations in 1920. Laeisz bought her back in 1924 and used her again to carry nitrate from South America.

In 1931 the Finnish shipowner Erikson bought her, her new home port became Mariehamn and she sailed several grain races to and from Australia. New Zealand confiscated her in 1941 and she sailed several times to North America with grain, wool and coal.

In 1949 she was laid up together with Passat and returned to Erikson; she carried grain under the Finnish flag, was then used as a grain depot at Penarth and finally taken to Antwerp to be dismantled.

In 1950 an initiative led by Mr Schliewen and Mr Grubbe bought her back to Germany together with Passat, intending to use both ships as sailing cargo vessels combined with the training of seamen; she was given a general restoration at Kiel in 1950/51 and fitted with a diesel engine.

She made several voyages between Hamburg and Rio de Janeiro and was out of service from 1952 to 1954 for lack of money.

In 1954 a group of forty shipping companies bought her to serve as a training vessel for young seamen; by 1957 she had made five voyages to South America as a sailing cargo and training ship.

On 21 September 1957 she was lost about 600 nautical miles west-southwest of the Azores in hurricane Carrie; only six of her crew of eighty-six were saved.