[Fai Mao]

Don’t you the Cape of Good Hope not Cape Horn?

Horn is South America Good Hope is Africa. Going to Asia it would be faster to go around Africa than cross the whole Pacific.

[exnavy]

Actually you are correct, Africa is “hope” America is the “horn”. Very rough waters there.

[cva66snipe]

You can go either way and avoid The Horn :>} The Nimitz I think has made that transit. I remember seeing a documentary on it. I'm not certain how many times it's been used by the Navy but The Straits of Magellan cut off the rough part but IIRC it's almost a two day passage almost while waiting on tides so the ship can exit.

But yeah your right it would be Good Hope and the quickest. I was looking at some of my ships history her first Nam deployment she went via Hope but stopped off in RIO first I guess that's what had me assuming it was The Horn.

I was in the South Atlantic one time in 1977 for a three month South Atlantic deployment to Salvador, Brazil, {Salvador the city} and down to Rio.