SAILING THE SEAS ALONE
WANDERER CROSSES PACIFIC. A little grey-haired old man, who ran away from his home in England when a boy, has just sailed alone in a 37ft. boat across the Pacific, from the Hawaiian Islands to Seattle. The distance is some 2500 miles. This sea rover is Captain Thomas Drake, who claims to be a descendant of Drake, the great Elizabethan seaman. An interviewer who saw Captain Drake in the cabin of his trim little vessel showed him a newspaper cutting of 25 years ago. It gave an account of the death of his father in England, and the finding of Thomas Drake at the little village of Stanwood, Washington. Captain Drake’s only comment was: “Yes, I am the man.”. The old news story stated that Captain Drake ran away from his home in England when only 11 years old, sailed the oceans in the old windjammer days, and finally settled in America. He started his solitary wanderings about 20 years ago. He made a 53-day trip from Seattle to Keil, Germany, in the tiny schooner Pilgrim, which was afterwards wrecked on the coast of Holland.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1933, Page 10
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