A WANDERING DERELICT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 December 1924, Page 9

A WANDERING DERELICT.

THE SCHOONER GQNERNQR PARR

Sailing with seas with no .hand at her helm, wandering fhro.ugh sun and storm, gale and fogs, slowly moving at the will of the ocean’s currents, is the derelict schooner Governor Parr, of Nova Scotia. The Governor Parr has been drifting over a year, and in that time she has crossed from one side of the Atlantic to the other, and has swept slowly down past Europe towards tne islands lying off the coast of Africa.

The Majestic first sighted the derelict on October 8, 1923) five days after she had been abandoned by her crew, waterlogged and. partly disinasted. She was then 819 miles east of Ambrose Channel lightship. Six months and a few days passed before the Majestic again sighted the sea wanderer. This ( time it was not on the Anierican, but the European, side of the ocean’s centre line, her position being 1278 miles west of Bishop’s Rock. Inj;ix months she had moved eastward 997 miles. She had zig-zagged across the steamer lanes several times, and it inust have been half as much again. From the position in which she was last met by the Majestic the derelict appears to have turned southward, for she was last reported in the Bay of Biscay, not far from Cape Finiste.ti’e. As her cargo is hard pine, which resists absorption of water, 6he may keep afloat- lor several years.