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Here is the story of the Preussen, the great German five-master, "without a doubt the greatest sailing-ship the world has seen...a supership, a swift giantess among all sailing-ships, the ultimate expression of deepwater Sail." When all of her 30 square-sails were stretched, she presented 60,000 square feet of canvas to the wind...
That fleet in 1921 numbered 140. Last year there were 20 left. Fourteen of them are the personal property of one old man, last of the sailing-ship owners. Captain Gustaf Erikson of the Aland Islands. He makes his fleet pay by carrying no insurance, paying no overhead, allowing no depreciation. The crews consist almost entirely of boy-apprentices, who pay to learn their trade and ''there are always more applicants than vacancies." Two girls signed on for last year's passage, but no women may sail with Captain Villiers again. Said he last week (when...