Short-lived Adventure
p. 44 · Read in the full issue
A PARTY of adventurers, whose plans included hunting and film photo graphy, and whose proposed venue in cluded the South Sea Islands, left London in October in the topsail schooner “Myonie B. Kirby” (73 tons), but they did not get very far. The little ship was dismasted off Brest, was taken in tow for Falmouth, but broke away; and a lifeboat rescued the crew and took them to the Scilly Islands, where they were clothed and fed.
Apparently the vessel, which was a 50 years’ old veteran of the Arctic regions, was lost. Mr. Bryce Gibson and Herr Karl Berkke were the leaders of the party, and they had planned a voyage of five years. It actually lasted five hours.