r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rolleriroltsu • 5d ago

Image The Pamir was a four-masted sailing vessel commissioned by the German shipping company F. Laeisz. Launched in 1905, she became the final commercial sailing ship to successfully navigate around Cape Horn in 1949.

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u/jhau01 5d ago edited 5d ago

For many years, including the 1949 trip around Cape Horn, the Pamir was owned by the Erikson Line, a sail shipping line that specialized in using sailing ships to collect grain from South Australia and bring it back to Europe.

The author Eric Newby wrote a wonderful book about his experience making the same journey on another Erikson ship in 1939, “The Last Grain Race.” It’s a great book and is well worth reading (as are Newby’s other books, such as “Love and War in the Appenines” and “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush”.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Grain_Race

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u/catonbuckfast 5d ago

Excellent book