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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 961, 31 October 1910, Page 9

JAOK LONDON'S YACHT SOLD. After lying in Sydney' Harbour for a year anil seven months, Jack London's yacht, the Rnnrk, has been sold. . She is to end hsr days as an Island trader (says Sydney "Sun"). It is said that thcSnark, although ouly a little ship, cost the famous novelist about £0000 to build and 111 out. She had just boon bosun when the i earthquake wrecked San Frahoisco, nnfl more than one builder had a hand in' her construction. Sho was scrviceably .equipped, and ill her Jack Loudon essayed a round-the-world voyage-from' San Francisco, but only got as fyr as tlio Solomon Islands, when ho : decidbd, for health Misons, to abandon the cruise. Tho vessel was' subsequently brought on to Sydney, arriving on March 3, 1909. Hot'how owners have requisitioned a . shipbuilder, through whom tlicy liave bought 1 the vessel,, to alter the whole of tho interior and convert her into a comfortablo trader. Although the yacht cost her original • owner so much, it is understood that, tho price said JEon Jier did. not reach four figures.