VOYAGES ACROSS TASMAN
MONTEREY MAKES FASTER PASSAGE AWATEA AT SLOW SPEED FOR PART OF TRIP (Received August 9, 10 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 9. The “Sun” reports that the Awatea’s passage from Auckland to Sydney occupied 63 hours 40 minutes, and the Monterey’s 62 hours 15 minutes. Captain Davey, of the Awatea, in dn interview said: “I was in communication with Captain Johanson, of the Monterey, many times during the voyage. I have never met Captain Johanson. He always signed his messages ‘Aloha johanson, ’ but I was not going to allow him to get away like that, so I signed mine ‘Kia Ora Davey,' and thus gave him a bit of Maori.” , „„ , , Captain Davey added: We had a fast rUn to North Cape and maintained 22| knots till we turned the corner, where vwe had to fight a severe blow. The seas were 30 feet across the bows. The storm lasted 16 hours. We gained spr 1 on Sunday when the weather was finer. “Throughout the trip we averaged 20J knots. We slowed down at 4.40 a.m. to-day, as we were not needed at the wharf until 8.10 a.m.”
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22167, 10 August 1937, Page 9
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