![]() She told that she had made the Trans-Atlantic crossing from Nova Scotia to Ireland, singlehanded, the previous year. We were experiencing waves of over 40ft at this time. She seemed to be the oldest passenger on board but had no difficulty making her way around the ship in the rough weather. That was where I spoke to Mary Harper as we both studied the ship’s chart of Cape Horn. We were not permitted to go out on deck but the ship operated an open-bridge policy. We experienced increasingly bad weather, encountering a force 12 gale as we rounded Cape Horn. I was on a small Russian expedition ship, the Professor Multanovskiy. as I was crossing Drake Passage between Antarctica and South America, I met a lady with a strange story. This is a Guest Post by our friend Brian O’Riordan, a native of Charleville, now residing in London
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