WOOL DERBY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 11

WOOL DERBY

RACE from n.s.w. to DUNKIRK SIX SHIPS IN FORTNIGHT *hen the Dutch freighter flbbeketfk leaves Sydney for flurope will commence one of the sreateqt shipping events of the “Wool Derby” to Dunkirk, states a Sydney paper. During the next fortnight no fewer than gix steamers will leave Sydney tor Europe, sailing direct to the French seaport, laden with new season’s wool. bast week, the C. and D. liner Port Hobart and the Ellerman steamer City °f Kimberley, cleared the Heads the same day.

•d the three ships, the Port Hobart wli 6 with shipping men, IA&0 are laying odds on the steamers, ‘he already has some excellent Passages to her credit, such as 34 days r ° m New Zealand to Liverpool; just in * 34 days from London to WellMelb 11 ” &Ud 36 da ys from London to 1 on^a°^ er interesting race began : ® September. 3, when the Blue Punl freighter Eumaeus and the NorSv f- motor vessel Temeraire left

v Eumaeus is a sister-ship to the k r , oaes - which won the “Wool 'ua £rorn Sydney to Dunkirk last 10 h’ steain i u S the distance in 33 days , ours 30 minutes, against the Gersteamer Aller, the C. and D. . P Port Huon, and the Nor--«an motorship Tricolor. UtUaeu3 has already proved her‘tobe a speedy vessel. In 1926 ydn eaine< * £rom Cape Moreton to uney Heads in 27 hours, at an averVoy a Peed o£ 16 -5 knots. On that boon? 6 k°tne she went from Melhioro tis° Dunkirk in 33 days—one day 32 a. taaa the record at that time of On*?’ Held by the Meriones. H 0 . _~ e P te mber 4 the German steamer All a |j, got away from Sydney, aj three ships are hot favourites, ( ey each have an excellent turn c| aiia The agents of all ships n ro . that their vessel will lower the esent record.