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Saw this some time ago, it is good. Hard to imagine such a life. If it was as miserable as they say I can’t imagine why some did it for so long.
“Captain’s Courageous”, 1937, Spencer Tracy and a fair gang of notables was close enough in time to get close to what life at sea was like in one part of the business I suppose. The movie is based on an 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling of course. What a magnificent writer and thinker.
Irving Johnson captured unique, high-angle movie footage from the mast of the four-masted barque Peking during huge storm during its 1929 voyage around Cape Horn. These black-and-white clips were later compiled into the classic documentary film “Around Cape Horn,” which Johnson personally narrated in 1980. It is available via the Mystic Seaport Museum.
It’s awesome video.
Mark 4 later
LOL...Modesty forbids my detailing the horrors of my Cape Horn passages. But suffice it to say the first transit was smooth as glass...Whilst the second was the stuff of nightmares; my dinner soup actually spilled onto my service dress blue coat...Our 95,000 ton carrier was tossed around like a cork.