"WINDJAMMERS" DERBY.
PARMA CLAIMS VICTORY,
LONDON, July 8,
Captain de Cloux, master of the Parma, which left Wallaroo (S.A.), on March 17, with wheat, claims the victory in the windjammer race, because of the extra miles he sailed to Falmouth. He declares that it was the roughest passage round Cape Horn that he had ever known.
He says he was forced to heave to for the first time in his life. After that they had fine weather. They kept company with the Pamir, another wheatladen barque, for two days.
Alan Villiers, the Australian writer, who, with his wife, made th> trip, said: "The voyage came near finishing us all. The Parma, is a good ship, otherwise we never would have survived. We were driving her to make best use of the wind, but afterwards we had to nurse her. She had three or four hundred tons of sea on her open main decks. Heavens, how she rolled!"
A big sea, in the height of a gale, smashed the compass and flooded the saloon. The ship broached to, and. falling into the trough of the sea, was in the gravest danger. She rolled on her beam ends, and was expected at any minute to roll over, or roll her masts out.
The second mate was swept over the side, and washed back again, holding to a brace.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 164, 13 July 1932, Page 7
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