A RAPID VOYAGE
BY SAILING VESSEL
TRAMP STEAMER BEATEN
FROM NEWCASTLE TO WELLINGTON.
One of the quickest voyages made by a sailing vessel between Australia and Hew Zealand was performed by the Rothesay Bay, which is at present in port at Greymouth. The vessel, which, is 699 tons and is under the command of Captain McGuinness, left Newcastle with 750 tons of coal for Wellington and 300 tons of iron rails for Greymouth on June 25tli, and covered the distance between Newcastle and Wellington in six days twenty-three hours. The voyage is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that the ship was becalmed for one whole day. This meant that the average speed maintained was over ten knots an hour. The Rothesay Bay beat a Japanese tramp steamer, which was also travelling from Newcastle to Wellington. Some remarkably quick trips bv gfc.ilirig vessels have been made ocross the Tasman Sea. In 1880 Captain Cox, the harbourmaster a,t .Greymouth, took a sailing ship from "Newcastle to Stepbens Island,' eigbtv miles from Wellington, in five and .a-half days, whilst,the Helen Denny, a noted racer, on one occasion did fh*. yoyagp, from Newcastlei-'td "Wellington in six days. ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1920, Page 5
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197A RAPID VOYAGE Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1920, Page 5
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