The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn in 1928, & Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014

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The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn in 1928, & Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014



BANGKOK (AP) — The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn set sail from Argentina one December day, bound for Australia with five dozen souls aboard. Eight days later, as it traversed the South Atlantic, it radioed a nearby ship. All seemed well.

That was Dec. 22, 1928. The vessel was never heard from again. There were reports of a "phantom ship" spotted through the haze, but searches of the icy waters turned up nothing. A year passed.
"Never in the history of shipping has a missing vessel been searched for more thoroughly," Associated Press correspondent Alex Gerfalk wrote then. "Science has exhausted its resources in an attempt to find a plausible explanation for the complete disappearance of the largest sailing vessel in the world."

Republican Herald | News | republicanherald.com

 

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BANGKOK (AP) — The towering Danish ship Kobenhavn set sail from Argentina one December day, bound for Australia with five dozen souls aboard. Eight days later, as it traversed the South Atlantic, it radioed a nearby ship. All seemed well.

That was Dec. 22, 1928. The vessel was never heard from again. There were reports of a "phantom ship" spotted through the haze, but searches of the icy waters turned up nothing. A year passed.
"Never in the history of shipping has a missing vessel been searched for more thoroughly," Associated Press correspondent Alex Gerfalk wrote then. "Science has exhausted its resources in an attempt to find a plausible explanation for the complete disappearance of the largest sailing vessel in the world."

Republican Herald | News | republicanherald.com

Jeff

Thanks for the interesting article. Having the dubious distinction of having sailed the southern ocean, The Kobenhavn had to sail in lower latitudes of the great southern ocean. Because there is no land at those latitudes the wind and seas rise to monstrous sizes.

There is an old sailors saying on how bad it can REALLY get, ya might like about sailing in Lower latitudes of the great Southern Ocean that encircles the South Pole.

In the "Roaring Forties" you thank God ya survived.
In the "Furious Fifties" ya pray to God to Survive.
In the "Screaming Sixties" there is no God.

Crow