SHIP’S VOYAGE LASTS A YEAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1920, Page 4

SHIP’S VOYAGE LASTS A YEAR.

luck OF THE CONSIGNEES. SYDNEY, March 3. The old saying that “It is an ill wind which blows nobody good,” was never more truly borne out than in the case of the three-masted sliip Bragdo a Norwegian, and the largest till eemaster afloat, The Bragdo sailed ‘nr Sydney from New York on February 7th 1910, and heavily covered with barnacles, she limped, into Sydney Hai hour two days ago. She had been over a. year on the voyage. She ran into a terrific storm soon after leaving New York. First one mast, and then another, went overboard, and an utterly helpless hulk, she was lying at the mercy of the waves when a Greek steamer came along and towed her int" Bermuda. She waited there for eight months, while new top gear was Sent from New York and fitted. Then she resumed her voyage. There was no means of redocking, and she had grown a heavy crop of barnacles, with which she set off for Australia. Owing to the barnacles, she averaged only six knots instead of twelve. Almost the whole of the cargo has appreciated enormously in value during the last year, and the consignees wear a smile that won’t come off. There is a parcel of 57,000 cases of kerosene. The owners of this and of 75,000 pieces of roofing slate, are likely to make a very handsome profit. There are also aboard large quantities of printing paper. which can hardly be purchased for money now, while there is certain to lie a wild scramble for 2000 reels of newsprint—if the happy owners can spare it. The newsprint famine in Australia is a terribly serious thing for tli© whole industry; the publication of proposed new papers has had to he postponed, and the weaker existing papers may, in some instances, have to cense publication altogether. . . •, Other lines aboard the Bragdo which promise to return the consignee a big profit include 1760 barrels of lubricating oils, and 871 barrels of resin.