ANOTHER “GIRL PAT”

Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 30

ANOTHER “GIRL PAT”

YOUNG PEOPLE'S AMBITIOUS PLAN In a trawler smaller than the famous Girl Pat seven young men and two young women are to sail from Plymouth soon on an adventure that will put the Girl Pat’s voyage into the shade. When the 50-ton trawler Antelope slips out of Plymouth Sound these nine young people, led by Mr Jack Bruce Kellock, will begin a world-wido voyage that will not end until they have traded in the Spanish Main; filmed cannibal life in the South Sea Islands; called at Cocos Island, reputed burying place of rich treasure; sold modern goods in the most isolated islands of the P&ciiiCi The two women who will accompany the party of modern adventure-seekers are only 22 years old. Mr Kellock, leader of the expedition, told the whole story of this daring voyage into unknown seas. “ We are serious-minded people who believe there is money to be made in an adventure of this kind, and we intend to use every method to prove rye are right. “Treasure? Well, it is quite out of Die question that we should spend our time hunting specially for it. If we came across treasure, I can assure you we wouldn’t pass it hy. „ _ “We are visiting the famous Cocos Island, for example, and many more treasure islands. “We shall follow the lines of the old pioneers. We shall trade at all the various places we visit —we shall introduce 1936 commercial travelling among the South Sea Islands. „ “ From the moment we set sail from Plymouth we will begin the film of the entire voyage. It will be dramatised and a complete record of life on board a small jsinp of this size throughout its voyage—perilous and otherwise —between hero and the South Pacific, “ Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of this will be the efforts made to film life among the cannibals. “ The crew will consist of my wife, my young sister, and myself. Other members are Mr Douglas Taylour, a civil engineer; Mr John Mackearn, a motor engineer; and Mr Derek Wilson, who was a student in dentistry. “ Until Just recently these young men were, like myself, sitting in London offices worrying about a business career. “ With regard to my wife and sister, their practical duties will be with the .cooking, but they will also play their parts as ‘ seamen.’ “ Before we leave I hope to be joined by another three or four men. “It is easy enough to get someone to enthuse over the idea of our adventure, but once they find out the amount of hard work it involves—not to mention the danger—they quickly fade away. “ Our route lies by way of Lisbon and Las Palmas. Then we strike across the South Atlantic to Trinidad and the West Indies. We hope to visit several of the islands there before we move on to the Panama Canal, which we shall navigate on our Journey to the Pacific.

“ We bought our trawler, the Antelope, when it was not much more than a hulk, but now she is shipshape. “ Now that the day of our sailing is so close at hand I realise more strongly than ever that I have wasted the last 10 years of my life sitting at an office desk. “ The great adventure of which I have dreamed for so many years has at last come true.”