THE TRACK OF DRAKE
FRIGATE TO FOLLOW GREAT NAVIGATOR’S ROUTE. HOPES OF FURTHER DATA OF ORIGINAL EXPEDITION.
(Received Dec. 28, 5.5 p.m.) 'LONDON, Dec. 28. An expedition, consisting of fourteen men under Captain Norman Wilkin, of the Royal Naval Reserve, will sail in the. three-masted frigate Marian on New Year’s Day from Appledore, where Drake weighed anchor many years ago and follow minutely the route of the great English sailor around the dangerous Straits of Magellan and up the Pacific Coast. One hundred applications have been received for places on the Marian and Capt. Wilkin spent several weeks in choosing mariners from the list. Vv ith a few exceptions the men are, making the’ trip entirely for adventure. The mate is a native of Appledore and spent most of his sixty years on sad'ng'vessels. . The mexing spirit of the expedition is John Henderson a Englishman, who mapped much of Borneo and the islands south of India and China. Henderson will stop at the cities which now dot the coasts along which Drake sailed and hopes to gather data of the original expedition. The trip is expected to take five years.—A. and N.Z.'O.A. ' v
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9697, 29 December 1924, Page 5
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193THE TRACK OF DRAKE Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9697, 29 December 1924, Page 5
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