SAILING BOAT OVERDUE
VOYAGE TO CANARY ISLANDS v LONDON, Aj?ril 11. ' A 63-year-old German, Paul Muller, and his 17-year-old daughter, who left the coast of Cork on February 2G to sail for the Canary Islands in a 16* foot sailing boat, are four weeks overdue. They expected to complete the 1500 miles journey by March 13. Nothing has been heard of them since February 22. when they were reported off Quimper on the Brest Peninsula. The Las Palmas correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” Pays that most steamer captains consider it would be impossible to survive the weather met in February. Their boat carried three weeks’ supr plies of fresh foodstuffs, bread, hrscuits, and water and also two months’ supplies of tinned food, potatpes and water in watertight tins.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 151, 12 April 1950, Page 5
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