YACHTSMAN MISSING
CRUISE ROUND WORLD. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Suva, September 17. Fears are expressed here regarding the safety of William Albert Robinson, who left on a voyage round the world in the yacht Svaap. w He left Tulagi, Solomon Islands, on June 11 for Samarai, intending to clean the ship there, explore the Sepik River and thence sail for Sourabaya. The schooner France, which left Tulagi on June 23, encountered a hurricane and arrived at Samarai three weeks later without sighit.ng the Svaap, which five weeks later still had not arrived.
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Southland Times, Issue 21192, 19 September 1930, Page 8
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