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> the German Flying P-Liners

Amazing beauties, shame there's only a few of them left.

> He said that once they failed to pass Cape Horn for 100 consecutive days.

IIRC those Flying P-Liners were used a lot on the Chilean guano trade. So they had to go round Cape Horn against the prevailing winds on the way out. And with a square rigged ship not being the best for beating against the wind, it sounds believable.




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