AUCKLAND KETCH’S ARRIVAL
VOYAGE FROM BRISBANE (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, October 13. After a cruise of New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands the Aucklandowned ketch Seaward arrived this morning from Brisbane, from where she sailed on September 12. The crew comprises Captain Dick (Wellington), B. Archer and Bartlett (Auckland), J. Smith (Brisbane) and H. T. Gutward (Fiji). On the Loyalty Islands cruise two members of the crew, P. Chaldercott and B. Robins, both of Auckland, contracted coral poisoning and returned home by steamer from Noumea. They were replaced by other men. Nearing the New Zealand coast a whale passed a few feet from the bow and a member of the crew who was attempting to photograph it from the bowsprit was so frightened by the whale’s dive under the ship that he nearly fell overboard in attempting to regain the deck. Only once during the voyage were the seas so rough as to cause alarm and in Havana Pass (Noumea) fierce gales blew out the head sails and a storm trysail.
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Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 4
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