WINDJAMMER’S FUTURE
VIEWS OF CAPTAIN’S WIFE. CAPETOWN, February 11. The day of the sailing vessel is not yet over, according to Mrs. Sven Eriksson, wife of the skipper of the Herzogin Cecile, which went ashore near Salcombe, Devon, in 1936. Mrs. Eriksson, who was well known in South Africa as a journalist before her marriage, is on a visit to the Cape, She admits that, in recent, years the windjammers have suffered “acts of God”’ which have diminished their number, but only one great . sailing ship has been sold to the shipbreakers recently. A certain Swedish shipowner still has more than a dozen square-rigged vessels which round the Capo of Good Hope to collect grain cargoes from the Australian Spencer Gulf and lie up during the European Summer months in the Aaland Islands. “So long as the wheat freight doesn t fall below £1 a ton,” says Mrs. Eriksson, “most of the windjammers have at least another twenty years’ life ahead of them.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1939, Page 11
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