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From the sailing fleet of the last century, two ships of the German firm LAEISZ- Line P- have survived, transforming themselves in floating museums. These are the PEKING and the PASSAT. If we add another ship called RICKMER RICKMERS, a museum ship of Hamburg, there are three great vessels that remember the glorious time of the German vessels that navigated through the Cape Horn. In 1616 the merchant vessel from Holland EENDRACHT discovered for the first time the Cape Horn. The frigate from Hamburg called HAMMONIA crosses in 1799 this famous Cape. In 1905 the frigate SUSANNA takes 99 days in the navigation from latitude 50° in the Atlantic to latitude 50° in the Pacific, considered the longest time in history that a vessel has ever taken to cross the most southern part of America.
Valparaíso, July 2001 |
