The Atlantic is a huge place, and this vessel is currently northbound in that expanse.  And where would that put them?

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Off Namibia.

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here leaving Cape Town last weekend.  Click here for the map, and here for the kapteines-logg, complete with pics.   See the huge blue wall along the portside of Sørlandet?

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It turns out that this 85-year-old ship stopped in the sixth boro in 1981 and 1986.  Click here for a video of the vessel headed for Chicago in 1933!

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The “blue wall” is Colossos . . . although I’ve no idea what it’s doing down in Cape Town.

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All fotos thanks to Colin Syndercombe.

Does anyone have fotos of Sørlandet in the sixth boro in the 1980s?

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