BOUGHT A SHIP.
NOTED AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR.
LONDON, June 20. Mr. Alan Villiers, the , Australian author, has bought a' full-rigged ship, the Georg Stage, from the Danish Government. The vessel, which is at present used as a schoolship for 80 boys, will make a world cruise, visiting Australia. Mr. Villiers intends to use it partly as a training ship for British boys. Ho told the "Sun": "I went to Denmark to buy an old oak schooner to sail off somewhere and stay there, but I saw this full-rigged ship. She was so beautiful that I had to buy her instead. A condition of the sale is that I must rename her, and I will call her the Joseph Conrad." The vessel will probably sail for Australia from Plymouth at the end of September.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 7
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