A STRANGE VOYAGE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1015, 3 January 1911, Page 8

A STRANGE VOYAGE

-ft Postal information from St. Helena reports, the sailing tlionce on September 21 of tho Forget-Me-Not for Gough Island (says tho London "Shipping Gazette").- This island lies in 10. S. 10 \V., or some distance south-cast of Tristan d'Acunha, The voyage is so unusual that one naturally wonders as to the objeet of the trip, and aho as to the.identity of the vessel herself. No sailer bearing tni3 name figures in til* list of ships making oversea voyages. Is this I'orgct-Me-Not, which is now probably well' on the way to lonely Gough Island, tho same tiny craft -which some two or three years ago . made an adventurous cruise from this country to Madeira, L-as Palmas, Trinidad (not the West India island of that name, but the little island which lies in the South Atlantic off • tho coast of Brazil). Buenos Ayres, and then on to Tristan d'Acunha, Nightingale Island, and Gough -Island, finishing up at Table Bay, a wandering voyage of about 10, COO miles? The Forget-Me-Not which made that trip was a 22-ton boat, purchased from a.' Dover fisherman by four young men, whoso wish it was to undertake a cruise of a month or two, but who finally extended it to embrace tho places mentioned. Ono of tho four held a master's certificate, but the thro? others were almost novices in seafaring. After bringing their craft safely to Table Bay, it was understood that she was to be sold, Recalling that tho little Forget-Me-Not visited Gousrh Island in tho course of her cruise, it in perhaps r.ot' unreasonable to wonder if the vessel which sailed from St. Helena r.otne sis weeks ago is the same 22tonner, now malun? another visit to the desolate island which lies far away in the South Atlantic.