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¾ port bow view of 4-masted barque PASSAT, sails furled, discharging 56,000 bags of wheat at Barry before joining the PAMIR at Penarth in October 1949. that year. Tugs and sand dredger also in image.

The 3,091 gross ton barque Passat was built in Hamburg in 1911 for F. Laeisz's 'Flying "P" Line' of nitrate traders. Together with her elder sister Pamir she was sold to Gustav Erikson in 1932, and in 1949 they were the last sailing ships to carry grain from Australia, the Passat discharging 56,000 bags of wheat at Barry before joining Pamir at Penarth in October that year. They lay there until 1951. The Pamir was lost at sea in 1957 whilst in service as a German sail-training vessel, but the Passat survives at Travemunde in Germany. (Source: Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection 1920-1975 by David Jenkins, 1993).