VOYAGE ROUND WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1932, Page 7

VOYAGE ROUND WORLD

DANISH AUTHOR’S VENTURE

KETCH ARRIVES AT WELLINGTON.

DAMAGE RECEIVED IN STORM.

CREW' SPENDS DAYS AT PUMPS.

By Telegraph'.—Press Association.

.: : ■ ' Wellington, Dec. 21.' * When the-ketdi Monsunen, of 57 tons, left Copenhagen in June the master and owner, Captain Knud Andersen, intended to make a record trip round the world without calling at any port He put into Teneriffe," where his family live, and now has put into Wellington to effect repairs, the craft having been strained in a monsoon; It is not known how long he will remain -here nor. how the repairs are to be effected.

Captain'Andersen is one of the most widely read authors in Denmark and a correspondent of several Danish newspapers,, besides--which- he gives lectures on his travel?. The' Monsunen carries a .master, three sailors, a.. cook and a dog. The ship struck the monsoon south of Cape Verde, but continued the voyage. An attempt was made to repeat a visit on a former voyage to Tristan da Cunha, and three days were spent in the teeth of a westerly gale, a After this .the ship’s condition became worse as. the? result.. of strain. She put into Storm Bay,i near Hobart, where patches were put on the leaks above the water-line. While the "vessel cruised about before leaving Copenhagen Captain Andersen was approached with regard to the lost training ship Kopenhavn, many people believing "that the missing 1 might be cast away on ’ some island. He promised to keep a lookout and in furtherance of this promise he visited the Auckland Islands. There was no sign of any men or wreckage,- ;1 ' ■ . When the vessel was 1000 miles south of New. Zealand the leaks became worse and the crew was - at . the pumps' night and day for 12 days, discharging 100 tons of water each.' 24 hours. They decided? to make'the nearest-land and hence put into Wellington. . The craft carries only a sail and has no engine.