TWO MEETINGS
Steamer and Sailing Ship When last September, the Shaw, Savill and Albion liner Waimana, which is at present discharging at Wellington, was entering the Thames on her way to London, she passed a small sailing vessel outward bound on a world cruise. The sailer was carrying mails for Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean, and the crew of the Waimana listened in to an account of her departure by radio. The small sailing vessel was the barquentine Cap Pilar, and she -was being towed by a tug. off Sheerness. Later those aboard the Waimana saw the tug’s hawsers being cast off and full sail being made by the barquentine. Since that time the Waimana had not seen or been within hundreds of miles of the Cap Pilar until on July 19 she arrived at Auckland, where the barquentine had been berthed for a week. The coincidence of meeting the barquentine again after the greater part of a year, and on the other side of the world, wag commented on by one of -the Waimana’s officers.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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179TWO MEETINGS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 264, 4 August 1937, Page 8
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