JOSEPH CONRAD CADETS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 10

JOSEPH CONRAD CADETS

TRIP IN PRIVATE YACHT LETTER FROM AUCKLANDER Having signed on as members of the crew of the private steam yacht Marilyn after the vessel Joseph Conrad was sold at New York, the three New Zealand cadets who went with Captain Alan J. Villiers on his long cruise across the Pacific were expecting, according to the last advice received in Auckland, to arrive at Southampton at the end of last month. From New York the yacht went to Bermuda, and it was to go to the Azores before continuing to England. In a letter to his mother, Mrs. K. McDottgall, of Devonport, one of the cadets, Mr. B. McDougall, tells of the arrival of the jacht at Bermuda after a rough passage of seven days from New York, when it .should have taken three days at the longest. For five days the yacht was hove to, and even after it arrived at St. George's the gale continued for another ten days. At this port, Mr. McDougall says, the yacht was joined by the owner, Count D'Anvcrs, and they went on to the capital, Hamilton. The yacht was supposed to sail on March 7 for the Azores, but Mr. McDougall did not think it would leave because of threatening weather. He expected that the trip from Bermuda to the Azores would take about ten days and, after a short stay for refuelling and to get fresh provisions, the yacht was to go direct to England. This part of the voyage was expected to take not more than a week, so that the New Zealand cadets were hoping to be in London at the end of March.