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The Sinking Of The "Pamir" ...!
On September 21, 1957, the German four-masted barque "Pamir" sinks ...
... during a heavy storm in the Atlantic ...:
80 of the 86 crew members, including many young cadets, are killed ...:
The four-masted barque built in 1905 for the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz belonged to the so-called "Flying P-Liners", all ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz, whose names all began with "P" ("Padua", Pamir "," Passat ", Potosi "etc.)
These ships were unusually fast for sailing ships.
From 1952 the "Pamir" - as well as the "Passat" - then sailed as a training ship for young seafarers ("sea cadets"), initially on behalf of the "Working Committee for Sailing School Ships" of the Federal Ministry of Transport, then for a specially founded consortium of 40 German shipowners.
During her last voyage, the “Pamir” carried a load of barley from Buenos Aires to Hamburg.
She got caught in a severe hurricane. The sails were torn by the storm (or cut off by their own crew), the ship ran across the sea, and the cargo slipped in the 12 to 15 meter high waves. The picture shows the sister ship "Passat" (today a museum ship in Travemünde) in a similar storm ...:
The "Pamir" inexorably lay on its side, as an emergency call from the ship showed: "Here german fourmastbark Pamir at position 35.57 n, 40.20 w, all sails lost, lopside 35 degrees, still gaining, ships in vicinity please communicate, master".
Then the ship quickly got a list of more than 36 degrees and finally capsized around 12 noon on board time. At 12:03 a last, no longer understandable, emergency call was received from land stations: "SOS, SOS, SOS from DKEF rush rush to us, german fourmast broken Pamir danger of sinking, master".
As a result, the most extensive search operation that had ever been carried out to rescue shipwrecked people started with great international media interest.
78 ships from 13 nations searched for the missing persons for seven days. From noon on the second day, after the hurricane had died down sufficiently in the disaster area, eleven aircraft supported the search with a total of 550 flight hours.
On September 23 at 5:38 am, the New York steamship “Saxon” found one of the heavily damaged lifeboats with five survivors.
They were later taken over by the US troop transport "Geiger" and brought to Hamburg via Casablanca by a US military aircraft (arrival on September 29).
On September 24th at 1:41 pm found the USCG "Absecon" ...
... a ship of the US Coast Guard, another survivor, the ordinary seaman Günther Hasselbach (photo above!), on the railing of a lifeboat that was also badly damaged and flooded.
According to his report, more than ten people were still alive in the boat 24 hours earlier.
A seventh member of the crew, the cabin boy Eckart Roch ...
... only survived the catastrophe because on the day of departure in Buenos Aires he was injured in a fall and had to go to the hospital.
The sinking of the "Pamir" was filmed in 2003 under the direction of Kaspar Heidelbach ...:
The "main actress" of the film was the Russian four-masted barque "Sedow" ...
... which was repainted as "Pamir" for the movie ...:
The owner of the "Sedov", the Russian Ministry of Fisheries, was happy about the money for the ship and crew and about the new coat of paint - because the "Sedov" still wears it today ...
The damaged lifeboat in which the sixth survivor was found is today in the tower room of the Sankt Jakobi Church at Lübeck ...:
Flowers are still being laid there ...
On September 21, 1957, the German four-masted barque "Pamir" sinks ...
... during a heavy storm in the Atlantic ...:
80 of the 86 crew members, including many young cadets, are killed ...:
The four-masted barque built in 1905 for the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz belonged to the so-called "Flying P-Liners", all ships of the shipping company F. Laeisz, whose names all began with "P" ("Padua", Pamir "," Passat ", Potosi "etc.)
These ships were unusually fast for sailing ships.
From 1952 the "Pamir" - as well as the "Passat" - then sailed as a training ship for young seafarers ("sea cadets"), initially on behalf of the "Working Committee for Sailing School Ships" of the Federal Ministry of Transport, then for a specially founded consortium of 40 German shipowners.
During her last voyage, the “Pamir” carried a load of barley from Buenos Aires to Hamburg.
She got caught in a severe hurricane. The sails were torn by the storm (or cut off by their own crew), the ship ran across the sea, and the cargo slipped in the 12 to 15 meter high waves. The picture shows the sister ship "Passat" (today a museum ship in Travemünde) in a similar storm ...:
The "Pamir" inexorably lay on its side, as an emergency call from the ship showed: "Here german fourmastbark Pamir at position 35.57 n, 40.20 w, all sails lost, lopside 35 degrees, still gaining, ships in vicinity please communicate, master".
Then the ship quickly got a list of more than 36 degrees and finally capsized around 12 noon on board time. At 12:03 a last, no longer understandable, emergency call was received from land stations: "SOS, SOS, SOS from DKEF rush rush to us, german fourmast broken Pamir danger of sinking, master".
As a result, the most extensive search operation that had ever been carried out to rescue shipwrecked people started with great international media interest.
78 ships from 13 nations searched for the missing persons for seven days. From noon on the second day, after the hurricane had died down sufficiently in the disaster area, eleven aircraft supported the search with a total of 550 flight hours.
On September 23 at 5:38 am, the New York steamship “Saxon” found one of the heavily damaged lifeboats with five survivors.
They were later taken over by the US troop transport "Geiger" and brought to Hamburg via Casablanca by a US military aircraft (arrival on September 29).
On September 24th at 1:41 pm found the USCG "Absecon" ...
... a ship of the US Coast Guard, another survivor, the ordinary seaman Günther Hasselbach (photo above!), on the railing of a lifeboat that was also badly damaged and flooded.
According to his report, more than ten people were still alive in the boat 24 hours earlier.
A seventh member of the crew, the cabin boy Eckart Roch ...
... only survived the catastrophe because on the day of departure in Buenos Aires he was injured in a fall and had to go to the hospital.
The sinking of the "Pamir" was filmed in 2003 under the direction of Kaspar Heidelbach ...:
The "main actress" of the film was the Russian four-masted barque "Sedow" ...
... which was repainted as "Pamir" for the movie ...:
The owner of the "Sedov", the Russian Ministry of Fisheries, was happy about the money for the ship and crew and about the new coat of paint - because the "Sedov" still wears it today ...
The damaged lifeboat in which the sixth survivor was found is today in the tower room of the Sankt Jakobi Church at Lübeck ...:
Flowers are still being laid there ...
