This true and gripping narrative takes you to sea aboard one of the last of the tall ships...and the great bark Peking, now preserved at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City. It's a voyage you'll never forget, from the winter North Sea gales that nearly drove the ship ashore, to the Cape Horn snorters that punished the Peking so severely that a whole section of her strong steel side was driven in. "That taught me to learn forward forward into life," said Irving Johnson later, and in this edition of a sea classic, he looks back on the voyage from the perspective of a long and adventurous career at sea, adding depth and new meaning to a voyage that was the experience of a lifetime. The brave men and able ships that fought their way round Cape Horn, the dread headland at the tip of South America known to generations of sailormen as "Cape Stiff," come vividly to life in this classic confrontation.

Peking Battles Cape Horn

Johnson, Irving

History

Sea History Press

The Peking battles Cape Horn: A true account of a voyage around Cape Horn in the bark Peking in 1929-30

Americas

International Register of Historic Ships

BROUWER, Norman J.

Military

<p>In January 1946, Cdr. McGowan set about refitting the former German sail training vessel for her return to America as a war prize. With the help of her German crew and US Coast Guardsmen new to sail, he fitted her for sea, then sailed her across the Atlantic to Bermuda, and home to New York. On this last leg they met a hurricane which severely tested the ship and her mixed crew. They learned to pull together to sail and, ultimately, to save the ship.</p>

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