....it has been estimated that world merchant fleet is only six percent of the 1880-1930 average number of "bottoms"...by comparison, todays total yearly transatlantic shipping barely exceeds the sailings from one port in 1900, southampton. as far as productive routes for storm reporting, the new york/capetown and the southampton/belem were particularly important in the early detection of tropical systems..particularly, after the advent of wireless......................richkevin wrote:There were A LOT, of ships.
Question about historical storm tracks?
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