VOYAGE BY BARQUENTINE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 15

VOYAGE BY BARQUENTINE

LONDON TO AUCKLAND ARRIVAL OF CAP PILAR (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The 295-ton barquentine Cap Pillar, owned and commanded by Captain Adrian Seligman .of London, arrived at Auckland this morning after a 15day passage from Sydney in continuation of her world cruise which began at London in September last. The members of the crew each paid a premium of £IOO at the start of the voyage, but others have been engaged at ports of call.

The 27-year-old captain served three years before the mast in the barque Olivebank. In those days, he said, he often felt the desire to own such a craft and to call at Tristan Da Cunha, in the South Atlantic. That was how the present adventure started. Leaving London in* September, the Cap Pilar called at Madeira, Teneriffe. Rio de Janiero, the islands of Tristan da Cunha and Capetown. After a voyage of 40 days from Capetown, the barquentine reached Sydney on June 15 and remained there for docking. She left Sydney on June 28. She will be rejoined at Auckland by Mrs. Seligman. wife of the owner, who travelled across the Tasman by the Monterey at the end of June. The future journeyings of the Cap Pilar have not yet been definitely arranged. It had been previously stated that the barquentine would sail across the Pacific, probably through the Panama Canal to New York, and then to England. Captain Seligman said the vessel would possibly stop at Auckland for six or eight weeks. She might then trade in the South Sea Islands.

The barquentine made a fine spectacle coming into the harbour under full sail until taken in hand by a tug which guided her to a berth at the western viaduct.

Built at St. Malo, France, in .1911, the Cap Pilar was originally a fishing vessel. She is 1 IBi'L. between perpendiculars, about 130 ft. overall, 27ft. Gin. in beam and 12ft. 7in. in moulded depth.