Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign by Jack Churchouse.

Publisher: Millwood Press, New Zealand, 1978. FIRST EDITION.

Good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards are rubbed and bumped at edges, small chip near edge of spine. Name to ffep, large gift inscription to reverse of ffep, pages have a little corners creasing and minor marks otherwise very good. Jacket is rubbed and chipped at edges with taped repair, 4cm repaired tear to front cover, some chipping/scratches on front cover. 284 pages, colour and b/w illustrations.

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 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.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK.

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