Is this the world’s most dangerous sea route? - BBC

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Is this the world’s most dangerous sea route? BBC

  • By James Clark

29 April 2019

When I was a child, my grandfather Alfred Downes often spoke about the 128-day journey that he took in 1949 aboard the Pamir. The famous four-masted barque, a German Flying P-Liner ship, was sailing from Port Elizabeth in Adelaide, Australia, to the town of Falmouth in Cornwall, England, filled with 60,000 sacks of Australian grain. It was the barque’s final journey through the stormy seas of the Drake Passage, and it would be the last time a commercial sailing ship ever rounded Cape Horn in southern Chile.

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Here’s Pamir rounding Cape Horn in 1929 with the young Irving Johnson and his movie camera.

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