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...
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"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.
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"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.
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