“The Lady of The Windjammer.”
AUSTRALIAN GIRL’S COLOURFUL ADVENTURE. Received Tuesday, Midnight. LONDON, May 26. Wearing slacks and a short reefer jacket, a stewardess Adelaide Myrle Ridgway peered over the side of the four-master Ponape anchoring in Queenstown. She looked the fittest of the whole crew by whom she is dubbed "The lady of the windjammer," Miss Ridgway, interviewed by the Australian Press Association, said she enjoyed the moment of greatest thrill early in the voyage when great seas smashed the forebridge. She had not mustered courage to venture aloft but was never seasick. She became a real sailor and enjoyed the rough ample food. Once they passed a huge school of 15 to 25-foot sharks and the crew caught two. She signs off to-day and goes to Glasgow to visit a married sister. Then she may return to Australia. The Ponape which had a five days calm in the Irish Sea was thereby robbed of an excellent chance of winning the race. Three Esthonian stowaways appeared a few days out from Adelaide and were made to work their passage.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 2
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