HAVEN FOR LAST BARQUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 52, 2 March 1929, Page 17 (Supplement)

HAVEN FOR LAST BARQUE.

The last of Britannia's famous old windjammers, tlie four-masted barque liaiihpool. will anchor in the Thame? and |>a 55 the re-r of her days in quiet, peaceful water- if efforts are successful to save the old sailing vessel from ship!>re;< kei>. Sole survivor of the nineteenth cent :ir\ -quare on Briti.-h registry, the Garthpool is a gallant example of the -turdy ship? which carried the seaborne trade of the Briti.-h Empire at a time when Britain and tlie Limed States competed under sail a* they now do with steamships. Anchored near B!ackfr:ai> Bridge, in the heart- of London, the Garthr><x>l would In? either a museum or a training -hip for mercantile marine cadets. In preserving: the vessel. Britain would be following the example of public-spirited citizens of America who en-hr;ned the famous old whalfship Charles "W . Jlor--i ii.-nr New Bedford, Mass.. a memorial to the industry which made NTpw Kncland famous. The Honourable Company "f Master Mariners in Txmdon uants to acquire the liarthpoo] for wjioiug purpo.-es. but lacks fundi.