SIX GRACEFUL BARQUENTINES.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 104, 3 May 1924, Page 7

SIX GRACEFUL BARQUENTINES.

A spectacle which is, in 'these, days oJ steam navigation,' remarkable 'in Australian waters, occurred at Newcastle recently; when there were six large' sailing vessels, all figged' as barquentines: from/four to six masts, in port.' Still more notable was the fact that amongst these six graceful looking vessels ' there -.were some 01, the largest barquentines n the world. The sextet consisted of tho American six-masted steel barquentln,c f.- R- Sterling, 2351 tons register, and imnish four-masted steel bar-^ j quentme. Mozart, 1789 tons .register, while the other four barquentines, the V \rvl m Ke"''2l(!66;tolu' Kathcrine Maokajl, 2119 tons,- Phyllis Comyi,, 2120 tons, and the Russel Haviside, 2133 tons, are some of the biggest five-master barquentines owned on the Pacific Coast. When the fixtures of the last four: vestered to load on the Pacific Coast for, Australian ports, it was . never thought for one moment that they would all final v meet'in port at Newcastle in the following March, all fixed outward for the business, Newcastle to the s \\est Coast of South America. This unique event was all brought about through some of the vessels meeting with adverse weaker conditions, and makino extraordinarily long passages to Aus° traha, while the other vesstls had moL favourable weather. . -ukub