SUPPLY SHIP FOR WORLD FLIGHT.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 26 May 1923, Page 14

SUPPLY SHIP FOR WORLD FLIGHT.

In a reoeut issue of ths "Sbippinl News," it wag reported that the steal two-deck steamer Vauduara, 837 too* gross, built at Glasgow in 1886, owned by the .Mersey. Docks ... and . Hawlrai Board, a familiar pilpt craft to esl Liverpool 'seafarers,' had be«n sold. It it understood the purchasers are the Legion of. Frontiersmen, who are having h«r x&f fitted for a /world omiae under her ns\# name of Frontiersman. It will ba r^j' membered that in July of last yeai Captains N.'Macmillan and Malms ai/r tempted to fly round the world,' but aftei a series of adventures the intrepid airmen were finally obliged to give up thfl attempt after falling into th» Bay of Bengal. Another attempt is about tq be made under the auspices of the Le^ gion of Frontiersmen. As there ar« na supplies for aircraft between Japan and Alaska, a distance of 3100 miles, it ha? been found necessary to purchase a shij to distribute these supplies, and sp tha Vanduara has come on the «cene and will sail on this mission under the com-' mand_ of .Lieut.-Commander Littlehills. It is intended that she'will carry a commercial traveller- 'on behalf of' British merchants and She will visit a large number of,seaports during her eighteen months' voyage, mainly in the Pacific. It is hoped tljat by cariyingsamples and by planting agencies to give to British merchants manufacturers new markets. The crew will consist of subscribing- adventurers all perfectly qualified for tSeir jobs and in possession of the nectesary certificates. The comm,andei of the expedition is Captain Boger Pen cock, the founder of the Legion. '