BARGES' 4,250 MILES VOYAGE
NAVIGATED FROM THAMES TO SOUTH AMERICA.
A feat unequalled, it is believed, in ocean navigation has been successfully performed by Captain H. E. Morris, of Gravesend, in sailing an ordinary Thames barge, without assistance from any other form of craft, from London to South America, a distance of 4250 knots. Captain Beckwith, in charge of a sister barge from the Thames to the same destination, was only less successful in respect of the time in which the voyage was accomplished. The two barges were the Doric and the Novric (119 and 120 tons respectively), and they were wanted at Para, which is situated some 130 miles up the Amazon, for general heavy workby contractors engaged on that river. Captain Morris rigged the barges as ketches. 'Each master had a crew of four men and provisions for 100 days. Despite bad weather, the Doric crossed the ocean and reached Para in 56 days. The Norvic had a very rough time, but all was well in the end. She was on the open ocean 96 days.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 4 February 1908, Page 6
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178BARGES' 4,250 MILES VOYAGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9046, 4 February 1908, Page 6
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