SAILING SHIPS
ARRIVAL AT FALMOUTH. A HAZARDOUS TRIP. GROPING IN FOG. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received June 24, 11.50 a.m. LONDON, June 23.
With a Spanish duke and a Belgian .baron aboard, the Serbian apprenticeship Viking arrived at Falmouth 98 days from Western Australia. She might have won the windjammer race if she had not been becalmed in the Azores for ten days. She was also overtaken by fog in the North Atlantic, when she was obliged to take soundings every quarter of an hour every day tor the last week of the voyage, in which she narrowly escaped a collision with a cargo steamer. . The Winterhude has arrived at Talmouth 105 days from Port Broughton.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 175, 24 June 1935, Page 7
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117SAILING SHIPS Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 175, 24 June 1935, Page 7
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