I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING
. | To Young Listeners, HE sailing ship now in Wellington is the Finnish barque Pamir, and because there’s a war on we have seized her as a prize. So there amongst the usual collection of harbour craft "one of the dwindling number of proud square-riggers left, slim and tall the wonder of her spars above them all." She is a four-masted barque-square rigged on her first three masts, and she carries three suits of sails each suit costing over £3,000. Expensive luggage! The Wellington people were full of excitement when they saw the ship, her stately canvas mounting tier upon tier sailing into their harbour-an unusual sight in these days of steamships. "For the steam came up and the sail went down And them tall ships of high renown Was scrapped or wrecked or sold away." So there she waits-disconsolate-like some lovely captive bird, the poor Pamir. All coiled down an’ not allowed to go, Every sail furled in a neat harbour stow. A long rest for her-and what for her crewPoor old sailormen . . . Good luck to youl
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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182I SAW A SHIP A-SAILING New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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