THE PANDORA MISSING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13529, 10 November 1911, Page 2

THE PANDORA MISSING.

TWO MONTHS OVERDUE. Believed To Have Foundered, - ■ , LONDON, October 15. Keen anxiety prevails regarding the late 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 mouths overdue. There are fears that she has foundered. ROUND THE WORLD. In a 36ft. Yawl. 'Hie Pandora left Sydney n August of last year, on her cruise round the world She is owned aud 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 arc not by any means over, however, when exploits like those of the hardy ma liners 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, alter making their 3000 miles across the ocean, than the sailing is announced of a 36ft. 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 out 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. Por two years she has been voyaging from Australia!, and has a log full of adventures encountered on the Pacific and round the Born. Once in a fierce-gale she was turiied completely over, but righted again, her mast being torn out. She has been ;■ for a month in New York Harbour repairing damage suffered on her wav up the coast.