LONE MARINER
SEVEN-TON YACHT REACHES ENGLAND THIRTY THREE DAYS TO ( ROSS ATLANTIC LONDON. July 16. Alter navigating a seven-ton cutterigged yacht with only a sextant and i compass from New York in 33 day. s , Francis Clark, aged 55, a seaman of ’ortsmouth, has arrived at Newlyn Cornwall). He left Portsmouth in the same Ticht in 1937 and reached Savannah | ind then New York, living on rain I vater and dried beans. He sold his •hronometer and bought food and sail-, d for England on June 12. The best run was 360 mil“s in 48
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 167, 18 July 1939, Page 7
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