ADVENTURE.

Shannon News, 7 August 1923, Page 3

ADVENTURE.

IN 20-TON YACHT. ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. News has been received in Sydney of an adventurous voyage from England to Australia, via Panama, in 26-ton yacht. The voyage is the second attempt on the part ot C^ ta H. J. Symonds to reach Australia u th Theft rst. attempt was in September last, but the effort nearly ended m disaster, for the craft m sailed was swamped during equal encountered in the English ‘ ’ and Captain Symonds and -his • > with a lad, narrowly escaped bun* washed overboard. Before sailing , the second voyage, Captain Sjmo. expressed his hopes of success i h. time. The experience of the previous v„“: s e had been turned to and storm boards were fitted m tne yawl Seaweed left Southampton on June 5, setting her course across the Atlantic. The route mapped out before sailing involved calls at Madeira Island, the Barbados islands and Fiji, whence the party pioeeeds to Brisbane and Melbourne It is expected that the voyage will be completed by Christmas. . Captain Symonds has had long experience at sea, and during the war was in command of the Nasso.no l, one of the Standard Oil Company s boats, on which he fought a German U-boat for nine and'a-half hours, aac em-wced from the encounter with his flag still flying. He .was on »wen ships which were torpedoed or mined and after the war was in command of the British Peer, flagship of ■>- Anglo-Persian Oil Company s fleet. He resigned this command to undertake the adventurous voyage to Australia.