FINE PASSAGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19512, 10 June 1933, Page 22

FINE PASSAGE

BARQUE PARMA ARRIVES AT FALMOUTH. LONDON. May 24. Having made the best passage since that of the Marlborough Hill in 1921 the barque Parma arrived at Falmouth to-day 83 days out from Port Victoria (South Australia). The windjammer girls aboard the Parma have captured the imagination of every sailor and longshoreman in Falmouth. They have been aloft south of the ice-line, and answered the call “All hands on deck” when plunging through a 14-knot South Atlantic gale. It would be difficult to imagine two girls more like the studio-groomed heroines of South Sea Island films than Miss De Cloux, daughter of the master, and Miss Lynd. If the spindrift and sleet cut their faces ■while furling sail beside the shellbacks, the mild weather and the trade winds have again given them complexions that bloom like the rose. Sonya De Cloux, with fair curls, her gleaming teeth, and a delicate tan, would inspire any artist. Her ambition is to become a sea captain, like her father, whom she surprised by signing up on her own initiative, for a two years apprenticeship.