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Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
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Pamir (ship)
German sailing ship
Pamir was a four-masted barque built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz. One of their famous Flying P-Liners, she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Barque
Type of sailing vessel
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are rigged square, and only the aftmost mast is rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, bearing a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Azores
Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic
The Azores, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores, is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal. It is an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hurricane Carrie
Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 1957
Hurricane Carrie was a deadly and long-lived Category 4 major hurricane which was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1957 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the longest-lasting tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin. The third named storm and second hurricane of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
September 21
Day of the year
September 21 is the 264th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 101 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)