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September 21, 1957
On September 21, 1957, pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie. Mukesh Ambani, Hervé Le Tellier, Herbert Wetterauer would arrive in the same year.
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Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
Pamir was a four-masted barque built for the German shipping company F. Laeisz. One of their famous Flying P-Liners, named after the Pamir Mountains, she was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949.
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1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade.
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On September 21, 1957
- 1957 — Pamir, a four-masted barque, was shipwrecked and sank off the Azores during Hurricane Carrie.
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