LONG CRUISE ENDS
ENGLAND-DOMINION EX-NAVAL COMMANDER (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Completing an 11,000-mile voyage from England, the yawl-rigged yacht, Caplin, manned by Commander R. D. Graham and his daughter Marguerite, arrived at Auckland to-day 18 days out from Nukualofa. Commander Graham intends to report to the naval authorities for service and will probably conclude the voyage here.
The voyage was uneventful except that the craft was 48 hours hove-to last week.
The route lay from England to Madeira, across the Atlantic to the West Indies, Panamd Canal and. the South Seas.
Commander Graham crossed the Atlantic in 1934 single-handed in a seven-ton yacht and published his experiences. He served in the Royal Navy on the African coast and in the Atlantic convoys during the Great War.
The Caplin is named after the Labrador fish and is specially designed for a long voyage, though she is only 11 tons and 35ft. overall.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 8
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153LONG CRUISE ENDS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20103, 24 November 1939, Page 8
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