Yacht Endeavour I. Found

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 5

Yacht Endeavour I. Found

-Pros^ Assn,-

blown off course Apparently Notking Wrong Aboard REPORTED BY TANKER

(By Telegraph-

-Cobyright,)

(Eeeeived 28 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, Sept, 27. The British tanker* Qheyennq has.senl a wireless message from fhe. Atlantie that Mr T. O. M, Sopwithdg yacfit, Endeavour I„ whiph broke away anj was lost while being towefi ba.ek iq Englaqd, has been foundt Apparently tfiere has been no geriqug happoning aboard the Endeavour, fqp the master of the Cheyenne seht a message stating that ho eighte,4 her IQ miles distant, approached and" signalled her, telling her of the concern for h«r safety, The Endeavour asked to be reported. She was last seen making eight knots. Her position was 260 miles pff Fastnet Light, Mr Nieholson, the designer, saya that the yacht 's average epeed to the spot where she was sighted works out it about eight knots, which the EhdeavguT would do nnder jury rig, A hnrricane threw hef in a northerly direction, The master apparently continued on that course, on which therf was not mueh traffic. At practically the same time, thq Endeavour II, arrived at the. Solentt, For tho second time in % week the Lntine bell was rung at Lloyds in con-. nection with the Endeavour I. Thp news of her safety has come as a great relief to the relatives of the crew after tht eruef disappointment of last weel'g false report. *