Liverpool docks in 1862

[Soreofhing]

Hello there
It's me again.
I left off my book for a few months then had a lot of work but now, what with the disastrous economic situation, my work has dried up...so I'm writing again.
It's November 1862 and my heroes are leaving Buenos Aires for Vaparaiso via the Falkland Islands on a sailing ship. It must be a sailing vessel for a secret reason.
I've searched and searched the web looking for the name of a suitable vessel which made that run but can't find a one. Seems the Pacific Steamship Company covered this route but my vessel must be a sailing ship.
Doesn't have to be British ship.
Any suggestions.
Best regards

[ChrisGeorge]

Hello there
It's me again.
I left off my book for a few months then had a lot of work but now, what with the disastrous economic situation, my work has dried up...so I'm writing again.
It's November 1862 and my heroes are leaving Buenos Aires for Vaparaiso via the Falkland Islands on a sailing ship. It must be a sailing vessel for a secret reason.
I've searched and searched the web looking for the name of a suitable vessel which made that run but can't find a one. Seems the Pacific Steamship Company covered this route but my vessel must be a sailing ship.
Doesn't have to be British ship.
Any suggestions.
Best regards

Hi Soreofhing

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.

Here's another example of a sailing vessel as late the 1890's on the South American run:

The Potosi was a five-masted steel barque built in 1895 by the German sailing ship company F. Laeisz as a trading vessel. As its shipping route was between Germany and Chile, it was designed to be capable of withstanding the rough weather encountered around Cape Horn.

Chris

[dazza]

Hi Soreofhing

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.