If you think you are a sailor ....

[Halo]

Watch this

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...23364495DFAC1B61946223364495DFAC1B6&FORM=VIRE

then tell us what you think !

 

[Old Harry]

Thanks for that, will watch it later, have seen it b4

 

[doug748]

Thanks for that one. Brilliant film.

 

[Kukri]

Irving Johnson’s narration is pretty good, too.

Edited to add - he must have given that narrative quite a few times, when showing it as a black and white silent film. He remarks on having shown it to the Honourable Company of Master Mariners in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Johnson

 

[Stemar]

After watching that, no, I'm not a sailor, I'm a wimp. I don't even want to do it in a modern RTW yacht.

My kind of sailing involves a quiet anchorage and a nice rosé or single malt at the end of the day.

 

[Elessar]

Watch this then tell us what you think !

Wow. Thanks for that.

 

[dom]

Here’s another, the children are quite simply amazing!

https://youtu.be/NjadS07KnTU

 

[[70521]]

I watched it years ago. Times have changed some say for the better others dissagree. We are of our time and life expectancy is a bit longer.

 

[Old Harry]

Thank you again, i have just watched it, they were "Real" sailors indeed, RESPECT

 

[Halo]

After the film I suggest listening to Ralph McTells song “around the wild Cape Horn” on you tube. He has put the film into an amazing song which will touch most sailors

 

[V1701]

Here’s another, the children are quite simply amazing!

https://youtu.be/NjadS07KnTU

Wonderful!

 

[Tomahawk]

I think this is the same Peking

[video]https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peking+hamburg+horn+video+you+tube&&view=detail&mid=5610E61C88C353C2D17E5610E61C88C353C2D17E&rvsmid=4CCEA4730D49E0830BDD4CCEA4730D49E0830BDD&FORM=VDRVRV[/video]

 

[colind3782]

My grandfather went around the Horn on a sailing ship in the early 1900s. He was 13 at the time.

 

[Kukri]

I think this is the same Peking

[video]https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=peking+hamburg+horn+video+you+tube&&view=detail&mid=5610E61C88C353C2D17E5610E61C88C353C2D17E&rvsmid=4CCEA4730D49E0830BDD4CCEA4730D49E0830BDD&FORM=VDRVRV[/video]

Yes.
Built 1911, by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, for F. Laeitz, Hamburg.
Seized as war reparations by Italy in 1920.
Bought back by F.Laeitz in 1923.
Irving Johnson was one of her crew in 1929.
Sold to the Shaftesbury Homes in 1932; renamed ARETHUSA and berthed on the Medway as a boy’s home.
Sold to South Street Seaport, New York, as a museum ship in I think 1975; Captain Johnson sometimes gave lectures aboard her.
Sold to Stiftung Hamburg Maritim, Hamburg, as museum ship in 2017.
Currently still in dry dock as she is being completely rebuilt and restored. Reputedly going well over budget.

One of the four survivors of the Flying P Line. Pommern is in Mariehamm; Passat is in Travemunde and the last one built, the Padua of 1926 was seized by Russia as reparations in 1946 and is still in use as the training ship Kruzenshtern

 

[Babylon]

Here’s another, the children are quite simply amazing!

https://youtu.be/NjadS07KnTU

Fantastic!

 

[Babylon]

video of arriving having been piggy-backed from New York

 

[Topcat47]

I spent a week on Arathusa in the Medway twice, when I lived in London. It was an amazing experience and I envied the boys who lived on her. I never did find out where they went, when we were there....

 

[Seajet]

Halo,

thanks for putting that up.