Originally Posted by
ChrisGeorge
Hi Soreofhing
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You don't need to apologize for making the ship in your story a sailing vessel. I would be prepared to bet that in the 1860's there were still many more sailing ships than steamers or hybrid steamer/sailing ships on the high seas. I have been interested in a Jack the Ripper suspect named John Anderson who was a sailor on a bark named the Annie Speer sailing to South America when he died in 1895 before making a deathbed confession. He was supposedly buried in the necropolis in Iqueque, Chile.
As late as 1929, they were still sailing on great 'square riggers'....there used to be a fantastic bit of footage on YouTube [taken off since due to copyright issues] in which Irving Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Johnson filmed the barque
Peking rounding the horn. Even includes a funeral service at sea of one of the young sailor's who fell from the yards.
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