Navigational Track Chart for the German Nitrate Ship <i>Pampa</i>, 1907
date: label: date made
content: 1907
notes: label: Description
content: By the mid-1870s, the Pacific guano trade had mined all the available bird guano from the South American and remote Pacific Ocean islands. Fortunately for international agricultural interests, nitrate and phosphate mines had recently been discovered inland in Peru and Chile to fill the gap, and big sailing ships from Europe and the United States exchanged the avian excrement for chemicals that could be mined and blended for fertilizers and other products.
label: Description
content: This track chart measured daily progress for the German steel-hulled full-rigged ship <i>Pampa</i> from Hamburg, Germany to "The West Coast" (South America) on a 1907 voyage. Built at Rostock for the Flying P line of nitrate clippers, <i>Pampa</i> measured 295 ft. 5 in. long and 1777 tons (gross); the long-lived ship was an extremely fast sailer and set several records in its day. <i>Pampa</i> was dismasted in 1922 in a storm, sold by F. Laeisz (owners of the Flying P Line) and sent to British ship breakers.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Transportation
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Capt. J. Ferrell Colton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3004.03
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3004.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chart
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/4 in x 14 3/8 in; 31.115 cm x 36.5125 cm