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Collector's Journal — Tall Ships

Potosi: Around Cape Horn in the Final Great Age of Sail

• Age of Sail • Art Research • Cape Horn • Chilean Nitrate Trade • Collectors Journal • Drake Passage • F Laeisz • Five Masted Barque • Flying P-Liners • German Maritime History • M Job • Marine Painting • Maritime Art • Maritime History • Potosi • Provenance Research • Robert Hilgendorf • Sailing Ships • Ship Portrait • Tall Ships • Tayler & Fletcher • Windjammer

Potosi: Around Cape Horn in the Final Great Age of Sail

A dramatic circa 1900 oil painting captures the legendary five-masted barque Potosi driving through mountainous southern seas, revealing the extraordinary story of the Flying P-Liners, the Chilean nitrate trade and the final great age of commercial sail.

 

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