VOYAGE ROUND WORLD
AUSTRALIAN'S PLANS MANY FEMALE VOLUNTEERS LONDON, July 23 Mr. Alan Villiers, Australian author, is planning to circumnavigate the globe. He proposes to follow the tracks of Captain Cook's first voyage. He will sail from Plymouth in October in the Joseph Conrad and hopes to reach Australia in April. Mr. Villiers to-day said he had been overwhelmed with applications to join the crew, especially from girls. "It seems that women under 20 are more adventurous than boys," he said. "I have letters from females aged from 1.'3 to 73."
If; was announced on Juno 20 tli.it Mr. Villiers had bought a full-rigged ship, the Georg Stage, from the Danish Government. The vessel, which had boon used as a school ship for 80 boys, was to make a world cruise. Mr. Villiers intended to use it partly as a training ship for British boys. In an interview Mr. Villiers said: J. went to Denmark to buy an old oak schooner to sail off somewhere and stay there, but I saw this full-rigged ship, was so beautiful that .1 had to \uy her instead. A condition of the fyl'e is that I must rename hor, and I ujll call her the Joseph Conrnd."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21861, 25 July 1934, Page 11
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