Franklin Changes Hands
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IT is announced in the Sydney news papers that “one of the most pictur esque craft in Port Phillip,” the steam yacht “Adele,” has been sold to a member of the Sydney Yacht Squadron.
This vessel will be remembered, with out tenderness or enthusiasm, as the Franklin, which was for some years the official patrol vessel in New Guinea, with headquarters at Rabaul. She was not an attractive craft —she literally ate fuel, and many officials of the New Guinea Pub lic Service can still work up a fine ex hibition of hatred when they recollect their experiences on the Franklin in a dirty sea.
The vessel was built in Scotland in 1906 as a single-screw steam yacht, and soon afterwards she became a tender in the Royal Australian Navy. She was in the New Guinea service from about 1921 until 1933.
Mr. T. W. Upson, Warrant Officer in the New Guinea Police Force, arrived in Syd ney with his wife by the Montoro, on April 1, on four months’ leave.