Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Passat & Pamir at Penarth Dock - A Photo Album - 1948 - 1951

In Port Victoria the ship took aboard a cargo of wheat and left for England on May 17. She took four passengers from Australia, two women and two men.

Half her crew were original members who shipped in her in Finland. Amongst those are four English apprentices, the rest Finns and one Swedish. The other half of the crew Australians and South Africans. The Passat had good weather around the Horn, but it was icy and cold, and the ship was covered with snow.

Unfavourable Winds - The voyage took 143 days, for the wind was mostly against her and she had three minor storms. There were four pigs and a white kitten aboard. the crew never liked the white kitten and thought it was unlucky, but when it disappeared the wind was still unfavourable!

The Passat was covered with barnacles underneath, which decreased her speed considerably. There had been no time for dry-docking in Australia'. Western Daily Press [022] 12th October 1948.

	In this photograph 'Pamir' has just arrived at Penarth Dock druing October 1949 and is moored with sister 'Passat' berthed astern of her.
	Back at the Avonmouth Docks a year earlier for more photos from my album of the 'Passat'.