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The Grain Trade: windjammers and Cape Horners

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Brief description

The collection includes personal papers and memorabilia, diaries, sailors' crafts, ship portraits, and ship models covering one hundred years from 1850 to 1950. The collection also includes original photographs documenting life on board Pamir and Passat in 1949 and memorabilia from the now defunct South Australian Cape Horner's associations including Cape Horners' uniforms, penants, badges, publications, and film footage and voyage souvenirs.

Significance

This collection includes a diversity of objects and images linked to the last windjammers and those who crewed them. In the early twentieth century, only a few trade routes remained viable for the world's big sailing vessels. The Australian grain trade was one and it was on this route that Finnish ship-owner Gustaf Erikson made his name. He invested in second-hand barques or 'windjammers' and eventually became the owner of the world's last fleet of commercial sailing ships. The voyages from South Australian wheat ports on the Yorke Peninsula to Europe received much media coverage. In Britain, people bet on which ship would make the fastest voyage of the year, coining the expression 'Grain Races'. The windjammers Passat and Pamir left South Australia's Port Victoria on 28 May 1949 loaded with grain for Europe. They were the last commercial sailing ships to ply one of the world's longest trade routes. Original photographs of life on board these two ships during the last great grain race in 1949 form part of the museum's collection.

Data time period: 1850 to 1950

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text: Yorke Peninsula

text: Aland Islands

text: Finland

text: South Australia

text: Port Adelaide

text: Cape Horn

Subjects
Cape Horners | Commerce | Erickson | Grain | Pamir | Passat | Personal effects | Photographs | Photography | South Australian Maritime Museum | barque | cereals | crews | films | grain race | model ships | sailing ships | ships | souvenirs | windjammers |

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