KETCH IN STORM

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 9

KETCH IN STORM

YVONNE REPORTS ALL WELL

""■■■■■• SYDNEY, August 5. ' The. Wanganella passed the ketch Yvonne about 300 miles east of Sydney, in heavy weather." An officer aboard the Wanganella semaphored asking the Yvonne whether she required assistance, whereupon a member; of the ketch's crew signalled that all was v/ell. •':'■'■

The Yvonne, the crew of which'cohsists of Messrs. A. Venables, J. Sorenson, E. King; J. Boshier, D. Angus, and J. Ashwood, is heading for Auckland.

The Yvonne, which is owned by Mr. Venables, a New Zealander. left Sydney on July 30 on the first stage of a world tour which is expected to take two years.