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She was a Flying P Liner. There is a film from 1929 documenting a trip around the horn on another of those ships called the Peking, great watch with some amazing footage. Around Cape Horn (1929)
I’m utterly oblivious about nautical life but all those sales must’ve been a bitch to manage
Nah, they had very few customers while at sea.
they're going through the roof, sir
You don't think the sales are a bitch to manage on the land?? Why do you think we have all those people on the field??
It took until your comment for me to notice the typo. Now I have to leave it.
A great book on this subject is The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby, an autobiographical account of the author's trip around the world as a crewman on Moshulu just before WWII broke out. Interestingly, Moshulu went on to star in The Godfather Part II (as the ship that brings young Vito Corleone to the US) and is now a floating restaurant in Philadelphia.
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