Download or read book The Pamir Under the New Zealand Ensign written by Jack Churchouse and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 challend to a country at war whose life lines stretched across vast oceans ; shipping space was urgently needed byt a windjammeer? Sail was an anachronism. This is the story of how the New Zelanad Government, in partnership with one of its historic shipping lines, the Union Steamship Company, commissioned and sailed the sturdy vessel between Wellington and North American ports until after the war ... The Pamir's fortunes are followed through her famous postwar voyage to London and back to Auckland, her return to Finnish owners, and her tragic end as a cargo carrying training ship in German ownership when she was overwhelmed by an Atlantic storm ..."--Inside front cover.
Download or read book The Last Time Around Cape Horn written by William F. Stark and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1949, a young Dartmouth student named William Stark left his study-abroad program in Zurich for a berth as an Ordinary Seaman on a Finnish windjammer that would carry 60,000 sacks of barley 12,000 miles in 128 days from Australia to Europe, around Cape Horn. This is Stark's engrossing memoir of the end of a long tradition of young men going to sea in the Great Age of Sail, and the final rounding by a commercial sailing ship of fearsome Cape Horn -- the veritable Mount Everest of sailing. Stark vividly chronicles the Pamir's journey through the world's stormiest seas as he worked brutal four-hour watches on decks awash with the huge swells of the Southern Ocean, and scrambled up ice-coated rigging to manhandle sails on masts that were up to twenty stories high. Stark experienced the shipboard life of the seventeenth century in 1949 on a vessel longer than a football field. Contrasting the romance and realities of life on the sea, and poignantly evoking the passionate love affair he left behind, Stark wrote a thrilling narrative that brings closure to the era of Cape Horn merchant sailors that began more than three centuries before. Pages of memorable photographs are included.
Download or read book The New Zealand ensign By W A Glue With plates written by New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Historical Branch and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Glamour and the Sea written by Elizabeth Knox and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1947 Ray Knox is 20, a merchant seaman and a man with a past. Sam Thrift is an ex US serviceman who has returned to New Zealand in search of a child he thinks must exist. But Sam is having memory problems. He needs a junior detective, someone to take notes. Ray, who wants to be a writer, recognises Sam's search as a mystery -- but has no idea just how and dangerous it will turn out to be.
Download or read book Ghosts of Makara written by Bernard Diederich and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghosts of Makara: Growing up Down-Under in a lost world of yesteryears, is the moving memoir of a son of an Irish-German immigrant family growing up during the 1920s and the Depression-wracked '30s in a wind-blasted, yet picturesque, Pacific corner of colonial New Zealand. Makara Beach could have been Middle-Earth of the Lord of the Rings, the Academy Award-winning movie which 70 years later used Makara as one of its filming locations. In this sepia-tinted, nostalgic, first-person family album, the author evokes a lost era Down Under, one without television, the Internet, or (early on) even radio, when he and his younger brothers and sisters acted out their own stories and dreamed their own dreams. It was truly a different world, where barefoot Bobbits grew up with a deep love of nature and respect for family--a world we can learn much from today.
Download or read book The Last of the Cape Horners written by Spencer Apollonio and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a full range of exciting, dangerous, and everyday shipboard experiences
Download or read book The New Zealand Official Year book written by New Zealand. Department of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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