LITTLE VESSEL'S ROUGH VOYAGE
FEOM PITCAIEN ISLAND TO
AUCKLAND.
(By Telegrapk—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day. After 13 days' battling with furious winds and seas, the 70-ton schooner Besolution, recently built by Norfolk Islanders for tie fruit trade with Auckland, dropped anchor last night. The little vesseris manned entirely by Norfolk Islanders, and commanded by as hardy a sea dog as ever weathered the seas, Captain :G. Parkins Christian, who carries his 72 year's' lightly in his massive frame.. He is a great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of the Bounty Mutiny in 1789, and Nhis.mate, John Adams, bears the name of the original John Adams, who rose to the position of responsibility in the little colony of mutineers who settled on the lonely Pitcairn. Island. Coming down, the coast the vessel encountered a gale, wha£ the.captain describes as one of the most persistent hurricanes he ever experienced. "Out in the.gulf I thought all New Zealand was on top of us. My word, it was terrific."
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 37, 12 February 1926, Page 10
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