Cape Horner is a term that denotes a captain of a sailing ship

Sailing ship

The term sailing ship is now used to refer to any large wind-powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage "ship" became associated with all large...

 which has sailed around Cape Horn

Cape Horn

Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island...

 and is a member of the Association Amicale Internationale des Capitaines au Long-Cours-Cap Horniers.

The British section of AICH is Cape Horners Association established in 1950.

Cape Horner may also refer to a ship that has rounded Cape Horn.

External links

• National Maritime Museum, Archive
• Port Victoria Maritime Museum
  Port Victoria Maritime Museum
  Port Victoria Maritime Museum is a maritime museum on Yorke Peninsula, which is housed in the original general cargo shed which was brought out from England in kit form in 1877. It was erected at the landward end of the jetty...
  
  : A Maritime Museum
  Maritime museum
  A maritime museum is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water...
  
   commemorating the journeys of the Cape Horners made to Port Victoria
  Port Victoria
  Port Victoria may refer to several places:* Victoria, Seychelles* Port Victoria, South Australia* Port Victoria, Kenya, a town in Busia District* Port Victoria, Kent, England** Port Victoria railway station, a former railway station in Kent, England...
  
   in South Australia
  South Australia
  South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...