Model Built By Papeete

Resident

TTHE little ship shown above, a model of the famous brigantine Galilee, was built by Mr. Oscar G. Nordman, manager of the Oceanic Market, Papeete, and now adorns the wall of his office in Tahiti.

As a boy, Mr. Nordman began his sea faring career on the Galilee, and when he settled in French Oceania some years ago he decided to construct a miniature of the ship in his spare time. The model took him three years to complete.

The history of the Galilee is interest ing. In 1905 the Carnegie Institute, of Washington, U.S.A., authorised a Mag netic Survey of the Pacific Ocean, and the Galilee, of San Francisco, was selec ted and transformed into a yacht. Until 1908 she sailed about the Pacific in the interests of science.

Impressed by the results of her work, the Institution decided to build a new ship, with no iron in her. The outcome was the Carnegie. After 20 years of success this vessel came to grief in Apia Harbour, Western Samoa, being burned to the water’s edge in November, 1929, with thei loss of her skipper, Commander J. P. Ault.

Mr. Nordman informs us that a new non-megnetic vessel, the Beach, has just been completed in England to carry on the work of the Carnegie and her prede cessor, Galilee.

The Brigantine “Galilee”