A GIRL SAILOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 10

A GIRL SAILOR

WINDJAMMER VOYAGES

When the opportunity offers, Miss Mary Lang, a young Australian who arrived by the Tamaroa from England today, prefers the sailing ship to the modern liner. She knows something about windjammers, for she has made two trips in such ships, one to England and one from England to Australia.

Of rather slight build and medium height, Miss Lang is of a. retiring disposition. ' She went Home via Cape Horn in the barque L'Avenir, the voyage taking 104 days. ■ Although she signed on as one of the crew,' she said in an interview that she was really a passenger, but.in many ways she was] able to be of assistance and often went aloft. The return voyage was more exciting. She sailed in the barque Parma, the voyage to Australia, being made in the fast time of 72 days.,. As the Parma was going to Australia;, .to: load she was light in. ballast and :in the English Channel, when the ship lost both anchors, she nearly went aground.

For years, said; Miss Lang, she • had been anxious to make such a voyage. She had enjoyed the experience, and was not a bit disillusioned; in fact, she said she would love to go again.