FAMED SAILING SHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 7

FAMED SAILING SHIP.

GRACE HARWAR ON CANVAS

LONDON, April 19.

The Grace Harvvar, probably the most written-about, photographed and filmed vessel in the world, is now a prominent feature in the picture exhibition at the Goupil Gallery, Regent Street, as a result of the voyage of two young London artiste, Richard Carline and John Duguid.

Eager to paint ship-life, they originally intended a trip aboard a tramp steamer, but met Mr. A. J. Villiers, who suggested the windjammer, and introduced them to the Grace Harwar's owner.

The artists missed the Grace Harwar at Newport, and followed her to Venezuela, where they joined as ship's boys and sailed across the Atlantic to Denmark in 67 days.

The ship encountered fogs, icebergs, and storms in the North Atlantic. Owing to delays, the food became scarce, and during the last month they ate only salt junk and rice. The artists have just returned to London and are exhibiting many impressionistic oil pictures and chalk and pencil drawings, the best of which Carline sketched among the Grace Harwar's rigging, sometimes with the greatest difficulty.