PILOT AND REPORTER'S EXPERIENCE ON PAMIR
CHRISTCHURCH, last night. Through a misunderstanding over the engagement of a launch, the pilot who took the bax*que Pamir out from Lyttelton to-day, Captain A. R. Champion, and a newspaper reporter were, for sO'me time doubtful if they would be taken off when the barque was a nxile or two outside the heads carrying most of her sail. The Pamir had made a quick passage down the harbour, and when she was ready to drop the pilot and reporter the launch was not there. There were other launches near, hut they were passenger launches and fully laden. It "was considered to'o risky in .a strong wind and choppy sea for them to go alongside. Wrth the amount of -sail being carx*ied • in a strong westerly wind, the Pamir was hard to hold. There did not seem much chance of the xnen getting off, and the next stop was Sydney. HoWever, a lax^ge cruising launch arrived, and the -two nxen were taken off. The Pamir made a signal for a txxg* which had; returned to pox*t to 'be •sent' out, the nxen making a second ti*ansfer about an hour later.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5284, 21 December 1946, Page 5
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195PILOT AND REPORTER'S EXPERIENCE ON PAMIR Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5284, 21 December 1946, Page 5
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