The Atlantic is a huge place, and this vessel is currently northbound in that expanse. And where would that put them?
Off Namibia.
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?
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!
The “blue wall” is Colossos . . . although I’ve no idea what it’s doing down in Cape Town.
All fotos thanks to Colin Syndercombe.
Does anyone have fotos of Sørlandet in the sixth boro in the 1980s?
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September 2, 2013 at 7:45 pm
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