Pamir Square-Rig Freighter, Germany 1905
Model ship on display in Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Length: 316 ft.
Beam: 46 ft.
Speed: 12 knots
Cargo capacity: 3020 ton
Crew: 32
Scale of Model: 1 to 48
Display remark: “One of the finest of the 20th Century long-distance square rigged sailing freighters, this all-steel bark-rigged ship
with powered sail-handling gear was built for the Laeisz “Flying P” Line’s Chilean nitrate run. Later used in the Australian “grain races”,
it was on a cargo-cadet training voyage when lost in Hurricane Carrie, September 22, 1957”