To Sea In Ship As Sailors' Wives
Received Monday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 3. The News-Chronicle says two New Zealand wives of members of the crew of the four-masted barque Pamir which finished the grain race from Australia arriving at Ealmouth on October 2, had an adventurous htory to tell. They are the 22-year-old Mrs. May Smythe and the 29-year-old Mrs. Milly Liewendahl, neither of whom had previously been out of New Zealand. Mrs. Smythe said: "We were ofl: Gape Yerde when suddeuly out of a sultry sky rolled a 100 m.p.h. hurricane. Driving rain and fierce winds lashed the sea into a furv. 'Heavy seas fiooded out the accommodation and two staysails were carried away. Mrs. Liewendahl and I spent hours-helping to bale out." Mrs. Smythe kept a diary which recorded times when the Pamir rolled so much that she dipped her lee sails, while throughout July and most ot August, the barque ' ' lolled on a glassy sea." Mrs. Smythe said the last days of the voyage were most trying. When within reach of land, cairn i'ollowed the gales.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 October 1949, Page 5
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