THE YACHT AMARYLLIS.
GIFT TO ADMIRALTY. FORMER VISITOR TO AUCKLAND. [from our own correspondent. ] LONDON, Aug. 5. The Admiralty have accepted for the Royal Naval College the 28-ton yawl Amaryllis, which has been presented by Miss Muhlhauser, sister of the late Lieut. G. P. H. Muhlhauser, R.N.R., who sailed the boat round the world. Lieut. Muhlhauser left Dartmouth in September, 1920, and anchored again in the harbour on July 6, 1923. In the three years he had completed 31,159 miles. It was on January 1, 1922, that he entered Auckland Harbour after a passage of fifteen days from Sydney. While in New Zealand the owner unsuccessfully tried to sell his little vessel He was in Auckland until April 30 when ha set sail for the north. His homeward route took him to the Loyalty Group, Solomon Is* lands through Torres Strait, to Java, Sumatra, and so on to Ceylon, through th« Red Sea arid the Mediterranean and ba-jk to Dartmouth. Throughout the three years' voyage a very full diary. was kept. From this record Lieut. Muhlhauser began to write an account of his trip. He had written about half when he died. The work was completed by a friend and published in June, 1924.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19739, 12 September 1927, Page 14
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