Wheat Regatta

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Typical sailing route for wheat transport
Multiple winner: four-masted barque Duchess Cecilie
Four-masted barque Pomerania
Multiple winner of the four-masted bark Passat

Wheat regattas were informal regattas with tall ships and were held on the route from Australia to Europe . These regattas were mainly about the fame, prestige and honor of the ship on which the sailor was sailing. In order to encourage a quick journey home with cargo, the individual shipping companies also paid a premium for the fastest journey home. After being loaded with wheat in the ports of the Spencer Gulf , the ships had to compete simultaneously in June of that year. The way around Cape Horn (South America) was mandatory for the trip home to Europe .

The last wheat regatta via Cape Horn for merchant ships under sail took place in 1949. The ships were the Passat and the Pamir .

Wheat regatta winner

year country ship from, to Travel days
1921 Finland Marlborough Hill Port Lincoln - Queenstown 91
1922 Finland Milverton Melbourne - London 90
1923 Sweden Beatrice Melbourne - London 88
1924 Germany Gripping Port Lincoln - Falmouth 110
1925 Sweden Beatrice Adelaide - Falmouth 103
1926 France L'Avenir Geelong - Cap Lizard 110
1927 Finland Duchess Cecilie Port Lincoln - Queenstown 98
1928 Finland Duchess Cecilie Port Lincoln - Falmouth 96
1929 Finland Archibald Russell Melbourne - Queenstown 93
1930 Finland Pomerania Wallaroo - Falmouth 105
1931 Finland Duchess Cecilie Wallaroo - Falmouth 93
1932 Finland Parma Port Broughton - Falmouth 103
1932 Finland Pamir Port Victoria - Falmouth 83
1933 Finland Parma Port Victoria - Falmouth 83
1934 Finland Passat Wallaroo - Cap Lizard 106
1935 Germany Priwall Port Victoria - Falmouth 91
1936 Finland Duchess Cecilie Wallaroo - Falmouth 86
1937 Finland Pomerania Port Victoria - Falmouth 94
1937 Finland Passat Port Victoria - Falmouth 98
1938 Finland Passat Port Victoria - Queenstown 91
1939 Finland Moshulu Port Victoria - Queenstown 91
1946 Finland Viking Port Victoria - London 93
1949 Finland Passat Port Victoria - Falmouth 110

Participating ships from 1921–1939

ship to travel Years involved
Passat 7th 1933-1939
Pamir 7th 1932-1939
Moshulu 4th 1936-1939
Duchess Cecilie 11 1926-1936
Pomerania 11 1929-1939
L'Avenir 5 1933-1937
Ponape 7th 1929-1936
Parma 5 1932-1936
Archibald Russell 14th 1925-1939
Viking 9 1931-1939
Lawhill 14th 1921-1939
Killoran 10 1927-1939
Grace Harwar 8th 1921-1936
Winterhude 8th 1932-1939

See also

Web links

literature

  • Eric Newby : The Last Grain Race . London, Picador 1990. ISBN 0-330-31885-3 .
  • Eric Newby: Learning the Ropes - An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers . German: years of apprenticeship before the mast. Ed. Maritim, Hamburg 2001. ISBN 3-89225-422-2 (Newby was a crew member of the Moshulu in 1938/39 .).