A Sailor Named Drake
There is a lin e old seaman of 65 who enjoys the romantic name ot Drake, and has been christened the Lone Sea Rover, who is sailing round th c world in a boat of his own building. Captain Thomas Drake went out to America 4(1 years ago and for 20 years has been sailing boats single-haded. Is his last boat, the St. Francis, he sailed 32,000 miles.
Captain Drake’s present boat, the Pilgrim, a 35ft. two-masted schooner, he built from wood collected along the seashore at Seattle. In this he has already’ covered some 25,000 mile: in less than two years. Now he has reached Amsterdam and may’ visit England before setting out lor Australia, by the Cape or by' the Suez Canal, on his way back to thc American I’acilic Coast-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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137A Sailor Named Drake Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 296, 15 December 1928, Page 18 (Supplement)
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