Around Cape Horn (1929)
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- Опубліковано 16 бер 2020
- Capt. Irving Johnson's valiant voyage around cape horn.
Simple in production but brilliant in content, this is our best-selling video to date. Captain Irving Johnson sailed aboard the bark "Peking" in 1929, as the sun set on the day of commercial sail. During his voyage on the big German windjammer, Johnson compiled unequaled footage of the crew's daily activities, and spectacular images of a wild storm as the ship made the dangerous passage around. Johnson's narration of the trip is a delight
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This video was 50 years old when he narrated it. He did this 42 years ago now. It's been nearly 100 years since this video was created. I wonder what 24 year old Irving Johnson would have thought if you told him thousands of people would be watching this in 2022. What if you could have told him about UA-cam? What would that have sounded like to a young man in 1929?
And furthrmore the Peking is fully restored in Hamburg now!
that's awesome!@@metalhad101
Sound like lies
Just a squirrel getting his nut.
It's better muted.
Probably the best narrator I've ever heard in my life.
'Two empty bunks and nothing was said about it'. Jezus.
Awesome video. Thankyou.
He's right up there with Dick Proenneke as a narrator.
I have no doubt I will never experience an amateur movie of this awe inspiring quality again. I can't even think of a piece of filmmaking that can compare. An absolute priceless capture of the history of technology and of daring. I will forever be a humbled sailor.
This was one of the most interesting things I have ever watched on UA-cam.
Incomprehensible, how hard those guys must have been. Almost never clicked on this, so glad I did now.
Yep. Compare that to some of the snowflakes today. We live in a different universe.
So this video is even more interesting to me. I'm from the city called Hoorn. Cape Horn is named after my city, decided by 2 Dutch Captains. In a video that itself is 100 years old, commented by an American.
This is why I love history.
I saw Captain Johnson give this lecture live in the early '80's.
that is wonderful. i saw the video in san francisco
I bought the DVD from the Mystic Seaport Museum in the early 90s. Here to watch it again!
@@darkstarbrett on board the Balclutha? I think that’s where I saw it the first time.
I cant remember the last time I watched an entire video on UA-cam, let alone one that's almost 40 minutes long, but this one had me hooked from start to finish.
The same for me.......Frank
Lol right. I was to tired to finish it last night. Here I am next morning can't stop watching it.
Felt like 5minutes
When I was 6, now I am 68, my family was on lake Ontario and we got stuck in a storm with 14 ft. seas in a 27' Lyman mahogany boat. When Hall called the Coast Guard they said that we can't help you. What I just watched is what it seemed like at the time. Thank God Hall was a Navy helmsman.
"Torture! Torture!" Oh man. What a great video. I have been aboard fishing vessels both in Alaska and the South Pacific for more than 35 years. Never have I seen such bravery and vigor these men had in those days. Greetings from Alaska.
W@
IS just demand as high as they say it is?
Your not kidding pal!
Makes you think, don't it ??
@@colinrunciman5166 Absolutely. Greetings from Alaska.
When I was in the Coast Guard, we didn't advise anyone to go out on deck during a big storm. If you are faced with equipment problems the skipper will have to think long and hard about whether to do anything in the middle of a storm. If you can it's better to wait until the storm is over. We lost 2 men overboard in a big storm. The boatswain's mate decided without bridge approval to go out and repair a small boat that had broken loose. I was at the 1976 Tall Ships meetings in Boston harbor. I got to go on many of these sailing vessels and see how men lived. Their working conditions were horrible.
The conditions that seamen worked under in this era were astonishing, almost indescribably harsh. Thanks for uploading, this is a great account of something from an earlier age.
The Peking has been beautifully restored and is now in the museum harbour in Hamburg.
I am so happy to hear that. Thank you for sharing the information.
I’ll go check it out someday.
I'm so glad let her sit there in calm.
Thanks, that’s wonderful
I was on the TS Arethusa (Peking) from 68/70, when it was moored at Upnor over the Medway from Chatham dockyard. 200 young guys training to be royal naval sailors. I was thirteen and a half when I started. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life but it was a very brutal place particularly from the direction of most of the boy NCOs. We learned everything about the sea and seamanship. Every Sunday we dressed smartly in our No1 uniforms our spit and polished boots gleaming in the English sun, on the deck before the poopdeck.
This ship was for a long time a museums ship in Loower Mahattan. NY. It is now back in its old homeport Hamburg as museums ship.
This is really excellent to bring this story to a new audience on UA-cam
I've seen it many times since the 80s
I can't get enough of it
Irving Johnson is one of the great sailors
Love his narration
He has so many great lines but one I like to use is that "it would be silly to let go"
I also find it hilarious where he says that the dog made a mistake and bit one of the paid sailors 🤭
I think of that line all the time.
If you think about it, it's very true.
Why would you let go ?
What an amazing narrator!; with the images i could almost hear what was going on, half felt i was on the journey . A youtube gem, thx 4 uploading !
What a great film! ❤ And what a strong ship the PEKING was at these times! Built to „fly“ through rough weather and storms. Respect to the men who designed such high quality Tall Ships and respect to the men who sailed these beautys! It’s sad that the KRUZENSHTERN (ex PADUA) is the only active sailing survivor of the flying P-liners. The other ones which are museum ships today (POMMERN, PASSAT, PEKING) will never taste the wind in their sails again … 😢
I remember watching this as a child with my late father who spent 35 years as a merchant seaman and did numerous trips around the horn. Fascinating to watch again. Cheers.
How lucky can you be! This is the best documentary I have ever seen or heard. The narration is incredibly vivid and puts you there. What an adventure!
From the mountains of the Berkshire massachusetts..To the tip of cape horn Africa .legend.
Ahh yeah, except Cape Horn takes you around South America, not Africa...much rougher seas
Imagine all the stories that ship could tell. What a glorious piece of history. May she sail forever.
An amazing chronicle of an amazing time that shall not be seen again.
An amazing story brought to life by Irving Johnson and immortalised by Ralph Mc Tell in his song "Around the Wild Cape Horn" .My grandfather was a sailmaker in the merchant navy, who then joined the Royal Navy during World War II
Fantastic film document !
I drove on various fishing trawlers in the 70s, our fishing grounds were mainly in the northern Atlantic, summer and winter ...! And everyone who has experienced the North Atlantic in winter knows, it's not a playground and our job was hard-earned money. But compared to the situation shown on a sailing ship around Cape Horn, it was very comfortable!
Absolutely stunning...gobsmacked...i wonder when films like this will become illegal?!?...exposing our little darlings to such...MEN
Why would it be "illegal?" It's history.
@@kdphotos4691 you have no clue the point being made do you?
@@senecadaze - huh? I am an army war veteran. What the f*ck are you on about? Learn how to read a joke. I was mocking the prissy manner of the OP who was whinging that "films like this will become illegal." No, they won't. That is stupid.
@@kdphotos4691 thanks for clarifying not looking to get in a pissin match with ya
@@senecadaze - good.
There's a video about the Sydney to Hobart yacht race of 1998 where men were washed overboard. The skippers and crew turned around and looked for them but couldn't find them. Also during some of the Volvo around the world races..even recently, people go overboard. The boats look for them for hours and can't find them. That's why that huge ship doesn't turn around and look for men overboard, because they likely won't find them. A crew member of a recent yacht race who lost a mate overboard said that you watch them go over, try you best you keep them in sight, don't look away, the boat turns around, and the men are gone. I couldn't imagine going overboard, watching the ship sail away, knowing you're dead. That must suck pretty much as bad as anything can suck.
They didn't have any life vests in those days, today they have.
Of the four lost over board on the Whitbread/Volvo races two were recovered of which one too late.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_accidents_in_sailboat_racing
Two of my uncles sailed on Erikson windjammers, one fell from the mast three times. Two times at sea and into the drink, and was saved. But the third time, in harbour, in Kobenhavn, he fell on deck and died a few days later in a hospital.
Absolutely fantastic!! What a great man also. They just don’t make us like that anymore.
I have great memories of being up in Alaska. On the Eastpoint back in ‘74 I believe. She was a converted WW2 steel cargo ship, 170+ feet long. Adak and Kodiak. She was a crab processor. We took King off of the crab boats, processed it into frozen goods. When our frozen holds became full enough we would offload to the Earling Jr. I think the crab was brought to Adak then flown to Anchorage. I got to serve on wheel watch when we traveled up to Kodiak at the end if the season. That was a thrill, quartering the seas, on crests you could see the lights of other ships occasionally, in the troughs you couldn’t see anything but the next wave rolling in. I loved it. Nothing like this voyage though of course.
True pioneers. I couldn't imagine surviving those seas. The experience sounds amazing
Absolutely brilliant, and the commentators enthusiastic, but laid back style adds to it.
@@christopheramberg7365 Who was that comment addressed to?
The commentator is the guy behind the camera, that is, Irving Johnson himself.
Yup completely brilliant!
Pure gold....thank you so much, Fair Winds
Gold-blum ;)
Absolutely incredible seamanship and toughness.
His pacing, like the fury of the ocean, was breathtaking. In a day and age of long-drawn out multi-part docuseries, this was more than refreshing.
I'm exhausted just having watched these guys work.
Thanks, subby.
A spectacular piece of history!
I'm flashed and shaken by emotions !!! Unbelivable is a too weak word for the Szenario. Facinated by tallships since childhood, its the first time I see a film of them in operation. Thanks a lot, epic!!!
Absolutely fascinating story, I am really happy to have stumbled upon it. Many thanks to the uploader!
He talks about the superhuman captain of the ship, but Capt Johnson's superb footage on the ship must have demanded a superhuman effort on his part too. Due to his great knowledge of the Pacific Ocean, the US navy used his expertise during WW2, and he was at Pearl Harbour on that fateful day in Dec 1941. Amazing stuff from a bygone age.
The whole film is brilliant, I have found that my great, great uncle was in shipping, Runciman in days of sail, Leith Edinburgh, rgds Colin.
Thanks for uploading this - riveting to watch. Years ago I saw a video where the cameraman strapped himself to the top of the mizzen and got footage of the entire boat deck under water for moments, just the masts protruding. Haven’t been able to find it since. This makes up for it. Old salts indeed.
Yesterday we were on the Peking and had a guided tour. The guide recommended this very impressive video. Now there are handrails and even an elevator for handicapped. Back then they just had "Take care!" as only safety measure...
I've always been fascinated by early sailors taking on the winter sea around cape horn.
Totally awesome video 🎉
Thanks much, Captain Johnson: what a great adventure, what a great accomplishment! I wish I could be half the man you are! Thank you!
The sheer musculature of these men leaves me in awe ...
We have been on the Peking today in Hamburg. Learned about this video there. Amazing!
Exceptional circumstances, exceptional people, and truly exceptional experiences that defines an era and remains an inspiration for taking on the boundaries at sea. It is a priceless video and thank goodness it survived the times.
What an amazing video. And his description. Wow. This guy was RIPPED. And the voyage through Cape Horn!!!! Simply astonishing. It took my breath away.
WOW I saw this video first 30 years ago and have been looking for it ever since, thank you!
Me too!
We had this vhs on a couple nat geo ships I worked on. It was sacred.
@@tonijoblanowski9065 - I still have a copy of it.
What an extraordinary document of a particular place and time. Thank you
I grew up a few miles from Mystic Seaport, we used to go to it every few years. Wonderful place
This is such an amazing video! God bless You for posting it . Every child in school should see this video .
Iron men in wooden ships . Great footage.
For what its worth this was a steel ship. But amazing footage as you say, I've come back to see this so many times now.
Incredible man and Incredible adventure. What a life! Captains HUGE hands. Like a living book on film. Thank you very much. God bless.
I can’t stop watching this video, and now others like it. What a time, what a job, what a life.
The dogs a bad ass 😂
What a piece of amazing history... Many thanks for sharing! Amazing!
Wonderful, wonderful video. Thank you.
I have been around Cape Horn on my way to South America. Those Cape Rollers are really something else. Excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you. One of the best films ever.
Oct. 2021. A great film production. Thank you. Thank you.
And here another excelent Docu about the Cap -Horn Sailors!!!!!!
Great documentation by Irving. Breathtaking experience. His comments bring it alive. I just read his book
Bravo. Just wonderful.
Such a privilege watching and listening to this thrilling tale.
This is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Thank you for posting this video.
Great footage, and the description of Cpt. Johnson is a brilliant bonus. Can’t fathom any thumbs down.
An amazing video/documentry. Thank you.
Truly the toughest sailors to ever take to the high seas! Just the fact that they were without engine power for emergency situations would keep today’s sailors at port! Wow! At the end of the video, after every thing I watched these men do on this ship, I’m exhausted now!
Tom the men were the ships engine the wind was their fuel and the sea was their highway as it was for millenia.
Imagine the strength these men had. He gripped the edge of the sail to come down. Think about the cold. Richard Henry Dana wrote in Two Years Before the Mast about rounding the horn 100 years prior to this voyage. It was so cold and when aloft working the sails they would have to bang their hands on the sails to get the blood flowing to get them functional.
This is incredible! What a fascinating story.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
Fabulous, and to us today, incomprehensible!
True command is through leading, great captain!
leading by example. so-called leaders who never got their hands dirty just aren't a real leader.
no ones heard of safety, body flapping like a sail, A dog never been petted, men overboard but we dont talk about it. What an amazing video.
Every once in a while someone overboard in this day and age is found and rescued about 25% but most are lost. I read an incredible rescue of a man overboard in the Atlantic and he found alive 24 hours later by complete luck by a passing freighter the watchful eye of a man on deck watch. I think it was 1950s in Esso Magazine.
What a wild documantary! Absolutely lovely, we watched it on the danish school vessel Fulton :)
Amazing history, thanks for uploading.
Incredibly professional video .. the drone footage has also brought a whole new dimension too. Top quality entertainment, well done !
drone footage?
Modern-day youth will never understand the daredevil freedom youngsters were able to enjoy. Thank you for sharing the historical footage. God bless
AWESOME! In the true, original, sense of the word.
Really great! Thanks for posting
Thanks for sharing this treasure. BRAVE TEEM.
have seen this years ago and have found it again.was commercial seamen for 30 years crossing pacific and rounding australia a couple of times.these were real sailors brings tears to the eyes.when you can no longer sustain the fear it is amazing thing.
The best i have seen !
What a great Video, picutures ihave never Seen before.
Exactly explained,in clear speech ,so if follow the spoken Word,you feel in the World of those Tall Ship Times.
Timeless and priceless
Fearless! Much respect!
You can hear the love he has for the sea.
He was a great sailor
You should check out some of his books like Westward Bound
He had another great sailor onboard that voyage, Sterling Hayden
Beautiful, brave, I'm a long haul HGV driver, thought I'd seen weather but not like this!! Should be on tv ie, BBC 4. Gods speed guys!!
I wish there were photos of the enterior spaces such as Galley, mess deck, crew's Berthing, ships Small store, offices. ☹️
Truly extraordinary film footage.
The beginning with the telegraph pole:
I know of someone who knew an Army RSM who could climb the electricity pylon on the Welsh side of the first Severn Crossing and do a handstand at the top.
He used to scale the electricity tower like a monkey and made it look easy.
If you wanted to get a perspective then you can see the height comparisons in the film 'Patagonia'.
I'm not TOTALLY convinced this wasn't narrated by Jeff Goldblum. What an incredible feat of human will.
Actor/Adventeror Sterling Hayden wrote a novel, "Voyage : A Novel of 1896" about two square riggers rounding the Horn. He's wonderful storyteller.
I have watched this a few time and the talk about the fictional fighting made me realize that real men in groups who depend on each other for their lives do not have petty fights.
got this on dvd. brilliant.
Unbelievable! This is a fabulous time machine. A different world.
No safety. No regard for human life. It was all about the cargo. And the cargo was all about the MONEY. That NEVER changes!
Aye Aye Captain 👨🏿✈️Johnson🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨🇻🇨👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿👊🏿
Fantastic, thank you
My word what a narrator.
Thank you from Moscow.
God bless you.
Thank you
People were tough as nails back in the day.
Wonderful footage and narrative!
I visited "Peking" last Friday during the Port Anniversary. It is really an "eye-catcher"
Amazing! Thank YOU! Willi B. in Canada.
Toughest dudes whoever lived!