The Last Cape Horners

The Last Cape Horners - The End of the Great Sailing Ship Era
Gustaf Erikson of Finland owned the last great fleet of sailing ships the world would ever see. He employed them in the last trade left to the sailing ship, the carriage of grain from Australia to Europe by way of treacherous Cape Horn. Now old men, the last of the true Cape Horners tell of the dreadful conditions in which they lived and worked while sailing the great souther ocean towards the Horn. The film is illustrated with amazing archival footage shot on board three of these vessels in the las days of sail. Running time 72 minutes plus 20 minutes of extra interviews.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• oral
• history
• windjammers
• cape
• horn
• maritime
• port
• victoria
• sailing
• ship
• square
• rigger
• gustaf
• erikson
• grain
• trade

[eldoradoreefgold]

WOODEN VESSELS AND IRON MEN!!

[mistersmith6000]

THe ship at 1:25 is the 'Rothesay Bay?" Villiers first? So the last grain trips from South Australia was 1949. I read the last two years were financial disasters, but I've never known why. Perhaps, the insurance rules changed after the war??

[TorbenGalster]

Mistersmith6000. Thats a very interesting information. To Eldoradoreefaold it is not a wooden ship. It´s a steel ship. The wooden ship never maid voices like this. This was realy a cargo barring ships from 3500 to 5800 ton. Loading up in the Spencer Golf and running Fallmouth for orders. That mean, they have no radio onboard. So they run to Fallmouth to pick up the telegram off which harbour they have to unload the cargo.

[BoudiccaBlanc]

Brave men!

[pillemannabschneider]

a salute of honor and my deepest respect to those men who lived and died on these extraordinary vessels. hooray hooray hooray. you were real sailors and live on in our minds and hearts!

[TorbenGalster]

The Alan Villiers film from 1929 on the fullship Grace Harwar. They said she cost a man on every trip. It cost the life of Alan Villiers cameraman on this, but she was a beauti.