BARQUENTINE’S TRIP.
AMATEUR CREW ABOARD. VOYAGE ROUND WORLD. - Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 29. On a further stage of an adventurous world voyage, the 300-ton barquentine Cap Pilar, manned by an amateur crew, left Sydney on Monday for Auckland. Built at St. Malo, France, in 1911. the Cap Pilar will be a most interesting arrival at Auckland, which she shoidd reach, given average weather, in ta little more than a fortnight. The ship is owned and commanded by Captain Adrian Seligman, and the captain and the mate are the only ones on board .with previous sea experience. The amateur crew includes a clerk, a student, a solicitor, and others new to the 6ea.
The Cap Pilar left London in Sep tember, and calls wero made at Madeira, Teneriffe. Rio de Janiero, the island of Tristan da Cunha, and Cape town. After a. journey of 46 days from Capetown, the barquentine reached Sydney on June 15, and she remained there for docking. Mrs Seligman, wife of the commander of the Cap Pilar, arrived at Auckland by the Monterey on Monday. She will join her husband’s ship here to continue the journey across the Pacific, probably through the Panama Canal, to New York and then on to England.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 30 June 1937, Page 2
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