THE PANDORA MISSING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 123, 15 November 1911, Page 6

THE PANDORA MISSING.

TWO MONTHS OVERDUE. BELIEVED TO HAVE FOUNDERED. London, October 15. Keen anxiety prevails regarding the fate of the Pandora, the Australian yawl, in which Captain George D. Blythe is sailing round the world. The Pandora left New York for London in July, and she is now about two months overdue. There are fears that I she has foundered. The Pandora left Sydney in August of last year on her cruise round the world. She is owned and sailed by Captain Blythe, who has with him Captain Peter Arapakis, Aboard the great Atlantic liners of the latest pattern (says a recent message from the New York correspondent of a London paper), the conquest of the ocean may seem accomplished, and that there is no scope left for daring seamanship. The days of the real sailor are not by any means over, however, when, exploits like those of the hardy mariners V who are crossing the Atlantic in tiny} boats this summer are being achieved. No sooner has news come to hand that the auxiliary yawl Sea Bird with her crew of three had arrived at Gibraltar, after making their 3000 miles across the ocean, than the sailing is announced of a 30ft yawl, the Pandora, with her two owners. Captain George D. Blythe and Captain Peter Arapakis, for the other side. She is bound for London, and expects to make the trip in about 30 days. Her course is laid along the northern steamship track—a lonely one at this time of the year on account of the icebergs. But the perils of the Atlantic have no terrors for the Pandora's crew. For two years she has been voyaging from Australia, and has a log full of adventures encountered on the Pacific and around the Horn. Once in a fierce gale she was turned completely ! over, but righted again, her m.ist being torn out. She has been lying for a month in New York Harbor repairing damage suffered on her way up the coast.