YACHT SIGHTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22846, 29 September 1937, Page 13

YACHT SIGHTED

ENDEAVOUR I. SAFE BRITISH STEAMER'S REPORT LONDON, Sept; 27 The master of the British tanker Cheyenne wirelessed from the Atlantic to-day that Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith's yacht. Endeavour I. had been found. Apparently there had been no serious happening on board the craft, for the master of the Cheyenne stated in his message that he had sighted her 10 miles distant. . i

The Cheyenne approached and signalled telling Endeavour's captain of the concern for her safety, and the yacht's captain asked to be reported. She was last seen making eight knots in a position 260 miles from Fastnet Light, off the south-west coast of Ireland.

Mr. G. Nicholson, designer of the yacht, says that Endeavour's average speed to the spot where she was sighted works out at about eight knots, which she would do under jury-rig. A hurricane threw her in a northerly direction, and the master apparently continued qn that course, on which there was not much traffic. Endeavour 11. arrived in the Sokot to-day from America. SAFETY OF THE CREW RELIEF TO RELATIVES British ■Wireless 11UGBY, Sept. 37 For the second, time in a week the Lutine Bell was rung at Lloyd's to-day in connection with the r yacht Endeavour I. The news of her safety has come as a great relief to the relatives of those on board after their disappointment of last week.