ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE.
ARRIVAL OF YACHT ROXANA. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) (Received This Day, 10 50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. •After an adventurous voyage, the yacht Roxana arrived at 7. p.m. yesterday from Lord Howe Island and Auckland. Her crew consists of three New Zealanders. The yacht was hove to for a day and ] a-half on the way to Norfolk Island owing to a cyclone and the sails wore badly torn. j During her stay at Norfolk Island, the gale tore the yacht from her moorings, breaking both anchor cables. The crew then had no option but to put to sea and work under reduced canvas around to the sheltered side of the Island. Here Richard Wellington marie for the shore in a dinghy, but it was wrecked on the rocks and he had to scramble ashore. For four days Keith Dawson and Leslie O’Brien cruised inshore before they located Wellington.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 July 1937, Page 5
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