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Posted on Wednesday 24 February 2021
Built to carry bulk cargo across oceans, windjammers were able to weather all but the most ferocious of storms. The enormous iron and steel shi...
Posted on Wednesday 17 February 2021
On Sunday 23 February 1936 Harry Andrewartha wrote in his diary “The weather today is fine and we have the gramophone out on the deck and we are all...
Posted on Wednesday 10 February 2021
The Cape Horn passage, at the southern tip of South America is renowned for frigid weather and monstrous seas. Unimpeded by large landmasses, w...
Posted on Tuesday 10 November 2020
Windjammers is the newest addition to the SA Maritime Museums permanent exhibitions. It explores the lives of the young crew who sailed enormous four-...