TO VISIT ANTARCTIC
Our Own Correspondent.)
Largest Sailing Yacht to Sail for New Zealand
(From
LONDON, Nov. 13. Thousands of trippers in the past two years have visited the schooner Westward, the largest sailing yacht in the world, swinging idly at anchor off Southend Pier. Next month she will sail on an expedition to the >Antarctic. She is luxuriously fitted up with double and aingle berth cabins superior to those of many passenger liners. Mr. A. K. Hales, the owner, has given a free charter to the expedition, which is to be commanded by Mr. EW. Walker. The Westward will first make a twoyear cruise round the world. ■. Fortyfive passengers liave booked cabins. From New Zealand members of the expedition will go to tlie Antarctic in a smaller vessel. They will survey the coastline and Oateslaud.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 63, 7 December 1937, Page 9
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