Two lovely views of the bow and bowsprit of 'Pamir' dating from 1950. The lower enlargement has been colourised. I haven't been able to identify the ships moored at the southern side of the dock. [001]

William Stark in his account of sailing the 'Pamir' in 1949 [336] describes a watch:-

'On watch I was given the eleven o'clock lookout. I had to stand on the fo'c'sle head and peer out into the sub-Antarctic night looking for the white hulks of icebergs or - though we were supposed to be well offshore - the white confusion of spray where waves might break on exposed rocks. As the ship plunged onward, I stood in my spray-drenched oilskins and watched the Pamir's sixty-foot-long bowsprit crash into the foaming sea and throw itself skyward at the cold black heavens. I felt that we had truly sailed to the ends of the earth. I was more than ready to start my journey home.'