Rounding the Horn

A cruise around Cape Horn takes passengers through waves sailed by the missionaries

By Robert W. Bone / Special to the Star-Advertiser

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 24, 2013

~~<p>IN THE 19th and early 20th centuries, the safest way to get from the East Coast to the West Coast was to sail around the tip of South America. Rounding the Horn, they called it, referring to the often rough and dangerous passage for sailing ships via the island promontory called Cape Horn.</p>
<p>Prospectors from the East chose clipper ships to make it to the California Gold Rush. In still earlier years, dedicated New England missionaries shipped themselves and their worldly goods in wooden square-riggers via Cape Horn in order to bring Christianity to the peoples of Hawaii and other Pacific islands.</p>
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IN THE 19th and early 20th centuries, the safest way to get from the East Coast to the West Coast was to sail around the tip of South America. Rounding the Horn, they called it, referring to the often rough and dangerous passage for sailing ships via the island promontory called Cape Horn.

Prospectors from the East chose clipper ships to make it to the California Gold Rush. In still earlier years, dedicated New England missionaries shipped themselves and their worldly goods in wooden square-riggers via Cape Horn in order to bring Christianity to the peoples of Hawaii and other Pacific islands. Login for more...