Windjammers In The
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Strait.
T.I. Shellback’s Hope.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., May 29.
THE biggest sailing ship that has passed through Torres Strait at any time is said to have been the “Olive bank,” which came this way in 1926, after unsuccessfully attempting to make a passage by way of the Leeuwin, Now that sailing vessels are once more coming into their own on the Aus tralian run, we hope that some of the “white wings” may find their way through the Strait again and give us a glimpse of the beauty of sail. There is hardly likely to be the fatal attachment to reefs which in the old days cost many a fine ship its life, with improved facili ties to navigation. The “old hands” here (and some of the new ones, too) would be thoroughly cheered to see one of the ships of sail passing this way again.