Die Kap Horniers, ihr Albatros und das Marine-Museum in Valparaiso

Abstract

"At Cape Horn - a historical location for world trade - on December 5, 1992, a memorial was erected, a construction of steel plates from which the shape of an albatross had been cut out. This bird is the heraldic animal of the Cap Horniers, an international brotherhood founded in St. Malo, France in 1936 under the official title 'Amicale Internationale des Capitaines au Long-Cours Cap Horniers.' Supported in their endeavour by the local section of Cap Horniers, it was the Chilean Marine which had initiated the erection of the monument. The Chilean admiralty and representatives of all the Cap Horniers around the world were present at the inaugural celebration. A large hall (135 m2) of the Marine Museum of Valparaiso is devoted entirely to depictions of the bad-weather area Cape Horn and many of the ships which rounded it. This hall was inaugurated on October 25, 1995, again in the presence of persons representing every existing Cap Horniers' section. ln the remaining rooms of the museum, dioramas and relics illustrate the history of Chile." (author's abstract)