Captains and crew of the Pamir
The Pamir was a German four-masted steel barque ( sailing ship ) built in 1905 and was one of the famous Flying P liners of the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz, which still exists today . She sank on September 21, 1957 as a training sail training ship in a hurricane in the Atlantic west of the Azores . There were only six survivors.
Captains of the Pamirs
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List of photos, if any
Crew list on the Pamir's last voyage
Of the 86 crew members on the Pamir's last voyage, 45 were between 16 and 18 years old.
When the Pamir sank they died:
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On the return journey from Argentina - the last voyage of the Pamir - the crew should also include the cabin boy Eckart Roch. However, after a fall, he had to stay in the Buenos Aires hospital .
Could be saved:
- Dummer, Karl Otto (cook's mate, 24 years old, from Geesthacht )
- Haselbach, Günter (ordinary seaman, 20 years, from Kiel )
- Fredrichs, Klaus (ordinary seaman, 18 years old, from Bad Kissingen )
- Wirth, Hans-Georg (ordinary seaman, 19 years, from Leer )
- Anders, Folkert (cabin boy, 18 years old, from Bremen )
- Kraaz, Karl-Heinz (cabin boy, 17 years, from Hamburg-Harburg )
Further whereabouts of the survivors
The six survivors continued to sea. All but Karl-Otto Dummer later got their captain's patent . Dummer stayed ashore after two and a half years and later worked in retail.
In 2007 Dummer reported that two of the six rescued had died in the meantime (Folkert Anders and Karl-Heinz Kraaz) and the remaining three did not want to appear in public. Dummer himself died in 2009.
Günter Haselbach died in September 2013.
See also
literature
- Karl-Otto Dummer, Holger Husemann: four-masted barque Pamir. The story of a legendary P-Liner. Portrayed by a survivor of doom . Ed .: German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven. Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-934613-17-9 ( info page on the book ).
- Jens Jensen: The fate of the Pamirs. Biography of a windjammer . Europa Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-203-75104-6 .
- Erich R. Andersen: Pamir and Passat - the last German commercial sailors . Pro Business Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939533-53-5 .
- Johannes K. Soyener: Storm legend - The last journey of the Pamir . Gustav Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-2287-9 .
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- ↑ Jürgen Jürs on the website of the city of Elmshorn; accessed on February 15, 2018
- ↑ List of the "Pamir" captains with photos. Retrieved February 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Pamir website pamir.chez-alice.fr (accessed on November 20, 2006)
- ^ So Karl-Otto Dummer 2006 in the TV show 3 nach 9 from Radio Bremen. This number was also given by the Kölner Stadtanzeiger (September 24, 1977) ( Memento of July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed November 15, 2006). In the article by Annette Riedel (November 1, 2006). "SOS from PAMIR. Captain. ”One survivor reports. Deutschlandradio Kultur, Country Report (accessed on November 15, 2006), however, states that all survivors have become captains; that seems to be a failure.
- ^ Aachener Zeitung (September 23, 1997): Decades after the journey through hell. A trauma has remained ( memento of the original from June 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 18, 2006)
- ↑ Sinking of the Pamir - prisoners of the ghost ship Spiegel online, September 21, 2007
Web links
- Very extensive website about the Pamir: pamir.pagesperso-orange.fr ( German , French , English )
- History project of the Ludgerus School (including letters from Karl Otto Dummer)
- Report by the Aachener Zeitung , September 23, 1997
- The Pamir heading for Australia: fiete.ch/index.php (travel pictures 11.1931-08.1932)
- From the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the PAMIR and from the story of the last rescued G. Haselbach