On the NZ Shipping Company's Ruahine (see earlier posts). It's not clear if this postcard was intended to excite people or warn them about what they could experience...
"Shipping it green" my late seafaring grandfather used to call it and he'd been seven times around Cape Horn in sail ('afore the mast) so I guess he knew! Exciting? Warn-worthy? Plain damn scary as far as I can see... Thank God for aeroplanes!! Grant.
"Shipping it green" my late seafaring grandfather used to call it and he'd been seven times around Cape Horn in sail ('afore the mast) so I guess he knew! Exciting? Warn-worthy? Plain damn scary as far as I can see... Thank God for aeroplanes!!
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