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The roaring forties describes the area between the latitudes 40 and 50 south of the equator - notorious for strong winds.

She adds: "We are on the edge of the roaring forties, we are just a small rock in the middle of the south Atlantic, so we do have some pretty extreme weather."

The southern latitudes—from forty degrees south latitude to the Antarctic Circle at sixty-seven degrees south latitude—long ago earned their nicknames from the sailors who dared approach the continent: the Roaring Forties, the Furious Fifties, and the Screaming Sixties.

“Seventy-two hours through the Roaring Forties. Seventy-two hours by dead reckoning, and then you enter Salem Harbor. Why, you...begging your pardon, ma’am, for what I’m thinking.”

A month later they had weathered the Roaring Forties o£ the North Atlantic.