THE STORY OF BANKSIE'S BOAT

Gun Flash, Issue XI, 13 March 1943, Page 4

THE STORY OF BANKSIE'S BOAT

Sequent To The Blockhouse 01 Fame By Name Of Same One BAcksie. You’ve read of the wreck of the Hesperus Of the shooting of 'Dan McGrew But none of those talon compare With the story I’m 13.1ng you. You * ho and of Banks le ’ a blockhouse Now I’ll tell you of Bonksie* s' boat The most Tin seaworthy spectacle You ever saw afloat. This huge titanic monster Is nearly u score feet long Gigantic ribs of bent bamboo Thick and doubly strong# sT f s natty,slim, with cleancut 11 JIG s And streamlined stern and bow It*s composed of material of ■ ev*ry kind Held together the lord knows how. It’s skin did come from the mess tent wall Plus a parcel wrapping from Mr Go And it’s super special bucket seats From a dehydrated cabbage box. Its cowling is a ground sheet Its keel a four by two It* s tied together with fishing Line a And painted a khaki hue. As yet it has net seen the water And the water’s seen nothing as queer When the bottle is broken across the bow's I’ll bet it’s devoid of beer.

Now the Yanks have seen this effort And ' it’s rumoured the plans they’d buy To create a fleet of these vessels If only the b» t .<«,*s would fly.