Don’t click on this video unless you’ve got 38 minutes to spare. You won’t want to turn it off.
This is the about most incredible thing I’ve ever seen on film that wasn’t Hollywood or digital.
Shot in 1928, under unimaginable conditions, the square rigged cargo ship Peking rounds the horn in a gale. She is heading west to fetch nitrates.
Near the end, the cameraman, Irving (who becomes captain himself one day) gets washed right off the top of the chart house in heavy seas, but never stops shooting.
About the German Superman:
“Peking’s Captain Jurs spent his entire career on sailing ships. He died on December 21, 1945, on the day the last ship he commanded, the Padua, was turned over to the Soviet Union as war compensation. The Padua was renamed Krusenstern and is still active to this day in Russia. The Peking, which was the ship in this film, is now a museum ship in Germany.”
This is the about most incredible thing I’ve ever seen on film that wasn’t Hollywood or digital.
Shot in 1928, under unimaginable conditions, the square rigged cargo ship Peking rounds the horn in a gale. She is heading west to fetch nitrates.
Near the end, the cameraman, Irving (who becomes captain himself one day) gets washed right off the top of the chart house in heavy seas, but never stops shooting.
About the German Superman:
“Peking’s Captain Jurs spent his entire career on sailing ships. He died on December 21, 1945, on the day the last ship he commanded, the Padua, was turned over to the Soviet Union as war compensation. The Padua was renamed Krusenstern and is still active to this day in Russia. The Peking, which was the ship in this film, is now a museum ship in Germany.”