TEEHU MAKIMARE HAS A WISH FULFILLED.—The Cook Islands fisherman who won the Stanhope Gold Medal, the Royal Humane Society’s highest honour, expressed a wish to see “a big ship” while in England to receive his award. Mr Makimare is shown on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s 22,000ton liner Rangitane at the Royal Albert Docks, London. He pointed out that his 13ft cutter Te Aroa, in which he drifted more than 2000 miles in 64 days, was about half the size of one of the Rangitane’s lifeboats.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 3
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86TEEHU MAKIMARE HAS A WISH FULFILLED.—The Cook Islands fisherman who won the Stanhope Gold Medal, the Royal Humane Society’s highest honour, expressed a wish to see “a big ship” while in England to receive his award. Mr Makimare is shown on the New Zealand Shipping Company’s 22,000- ton liner Rangitane at the Royal Albert Docks, London. He pointed out that his 13ft cutter Te Aroa, in which he drifted more than 2000 miles in 64 days, was about half the size of one of the Rangitane’s lifeboats. Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 3
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