Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign by Jack Churchouse. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign by Jack Churchouse.

VERY SCARCE SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

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

Very good hardback with jacket. Blue cloth boards are a little rubbed at edges. Minor foxing to top closed page edges. Name to ffep. Pages very good. Jacket is a little rubbed at edges with a small closed tear to bottom of front flap, slight fading to spine. 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.