VOYAGING TO ENGLAND IN TINY SLOOP.
INTREPID NAVAL MAN’S BIG UNDERTAKING. WILL NOT SIGHT LAND FOR SIXTY DAYS 0M FIRST LAP. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.—Aus. and N’.Z. Cable Assn. (Received May 2, 9 a.m.) OTTAWA, May 1. Commander Eustace Maud, R.N., aged seventy-seven, who commences a voyage to England in a twenty-five feet sloop on May 1, has arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, en route to the open sea, with Panama as his next port of call. He will not sight land until he reaches the Canal, and has provisions for 100 days. He expects to make the Canal in sixty days, and has fifty gallons of water and the same quantity of gasoline aboard his vessel, the Half Moon, which has a five horse-power engine.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 1
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