WINDJAMMER GIRL.
A BICYCLE TOUR
FIVE JOURNEYS TO AUSTRALIA.
(Special.—By Air Mail.)
LONDON, July 11
Wearing a blue blouse, dark trousers, and a peaked cap, Elizabeth Fairholme, a 24-year-old London girl, is working on deck as a member of the crew of the Finnish barque Viking, which has arrived at Hull from Australia with wheat. She will continue the voyage to Finland. Miss Fairholme takes her turn at the wheel when at sea, and is happy in the rigging as in cabin below deck. ....
"I have got the sea in my veins," she said. "I belong to a seafaring family, and I have sailed in large and small boats, but I hate steamboats. This is my 'fifth trip with the Viking. When I get to Finland and am discharged, I shall get a bicycle and make my way through Poland'and Austria to Cologne, in (Jermany, where I shall try to work my passage back to London."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 184, 5 August 1936, Page 13
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