GHOSTS OF THE PAST
WIND J AMMERS SAIL AGAIN. CAPETOWN, Sept. 7. Stately windjammers, whose days seemed done when the ocean became the property of faster steam-powered boats, again are plying the seven seas, sharing the burden of other submarine-threatened Allied shipping. During recent months many of these graceful ghosts of the past have entered Capetown's harbour, loaded hatch-high with valuable cargoes. At least two of the vessels — sixmasted ships carrying a huge spread of canvas — had sailed more than 10,000 miles from the United States around the treacherous Cape Horn. Both windjammers had spent years off the American coasts as floating night clubs. Repeal of prohibition and tighter control of gambling sent them into oblivion until war found a new use for them. \7
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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125GHOSTS OF THE PAST Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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