ADVENTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1923, Page 11

ADVENTURE.

IN 26-TON YACHT. ; ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. Newg has been received in Sydney of .«n adventurous voyage from England to ■Australia, via Panama, in a 26-ton yacht. The voyage is the second attempt on the part of Captain H. J. Kymonds to reach iAustralia in this -way. The first attempt was in September laet, but the effort nearly ended in die;ester, for.the craft in which he sailed was swamped during squalls encountered rin the English Channel, a*nd Captain •Symonds and his -wife,/with a lad, nar,rowly escaped being washed overboard. •Before sailing on the second voyage, Captain Symonds expressed hia hopes of :success this time. The experience of the previous voyage had been turned to account, and storm boards were fitted in •the companion way. The 26-ton yawl Seaweed left Son'tliampton on June 5, setting her course across the Atlantic. The route mapped out before sailing involved calls at Madeira Islands, the Barbados Islands, >and Fiji, .whence the' party proceeds to Brisbane and Melbourne. It is expected -that the voyage will be completed by Christmas.^ ■Captain Symonds has had loflg'experience at sea, and during the war was in command 'of the Nassosiot, one of the Standard Oil "Company's boats, on which iie fought a German L T -boat for nine and i-half hours, and emerged from the encounter with his flag still flying. He -we on seven ships ,w.hich were torpedoed or. mined, and after th<» war was in comJjjand of the "Britisl). Peer, flagship oi .the Oil" 'CSrnpany'e fleet.' He resigned this Command to undertake the ' adventurous voyage to., Australia.