CHINESE JUNK ADRIFT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 7

CHINESE JUNK ADRIFT.

\ —.*» AN ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE. MAKES PORT SAFELY. News of the adventurous voyage of a Chinese junk' from Sari Francisco to Papeete was brought by the steamer Manapouri, which arrived from Tahiti and Rarotonga last evening. The vessel referred to was the Whang-Ho, a Chinese war junk, which had been on exhibition along the Pacific Coast of the United States. She is owned by a syndicate in San Francisco, who intended exhibiting her on the eastern coast of the States. With this object in view a captain and. crew were secured in San Francisco and everything got ready for the departure. The Whang-Ho was towed out of 'Frisco Harbour, but the captain at the last moment resigned his command to the chief officer (Mr. R. R. Grindley). The latter proceeded on his way, but the junk had next to no ballast, and wind and sea took charge of her. She drifted further and farther from her intended course, and finally ' arrived off Papeete on March 12, when she was towed into port. The crow of the Whang Ho were found to be in a mutinous state, and to add to the captains discomfiture, salvage was claimed, and had to be agreed to, for towing the junk into port. Captain Grindley is now waiting at Papeete for instructions from the owners. The Whaug-Ho is a very tine specimen of her class, and was built in Shanghai. | .• i