YOUNG SYDNEY ARTIST
PASSAGE ON GRAIN SHIP The young Sydney artist, Miss Betty Kopsen, who worked her passage from Copenhagen to Port Lincoln, South Australia, on the Swedish barque Viking, would like to sail back in the wheat race, states an Australian newspaper. It was with reluctance, she said, that she returned to start work again in her George Street studio. "I signed on as messgirl, but worked as apprentice," she said. "I did the port watch of from four to six hours daily, shot the sun, worked out the ship's position. "I worked aloft during the 103 days' passage, chipped and repainted, hauled braces, and took my trick at the wheel for an hour daily. "We had bully beef, salt pork, and a little fresh pork and poultry killed on board.
"Rice pudding was the staple sweet, and I am now oil it for life," she added.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22954, 4 February 1938, Page 3
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148YOUNG SYDNEY ARTIST New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22954, 4 February 1938, Page 3
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