Hell Around the Horn
A Adventure, Thriller, Fiction book. In the early 1900s part owner and merchant captain James Barker contracts...
Hell Around the Horn is a nautical thriller set in the last days of the great age of sail. In 1905, a young ship’s captain and his family set sail on the windjammer, Lady Rebecca, from Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of coal bound for Chile, by way of Cape Horn. Before they reach the Southern Ocean, the cargo catches fire, the mate threatens mutiny and one of the crew may be going mad, yet the greatest challenge will prove to be surviving the vicious westerly winds and mountainous seas of the worst Cape Horn winter in memory. Based on an actual voyage, Hell Around the Horn is a...
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I now know in intimate detail how to sail a windjammer in a gale. I also know I don't want to ever do that. an exciting story based on a true hellacious voyage in 1905 Richard Spilman's Hell Around the Horn is set at the turn of the twentieth century in one of the last windjammers to make the perilous passage about Cape Horn. It follows the progress of the Lady Rebecca as she takes on cargo and crew at Tiger Bay, before setting out for her eventual destination in far away Chile. The subsequent story... In the early 1900s part owner and merchant captain James Barker contracts to sail a load of coal from Cardiff, Wales to Pisagua, Chile. Aboard the Lady Rebecca, a windjammer vessel that was the pinnacle of sailing technology for speed and seaworthiness, Captain Barker embarks with nineteen seamen, his wife and their young children,...
