En Route To Tahiti
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Jan. 4.
TAHITI soon will give warm welcome to the cumbersome little brigantine “Florence C. Robinson”, which left Gloucester, Massachusetts, on November 22 with eleven young adventurers aboard.
Oldest of the ship’s company is 30years-old Lawrence O’Toole. Boston and New York artist, and the youngest is Captain Sterling Hayden, who is only 22.
They will deliver the brigantine to a copra trader in the Marquesas. It is expected she will arrive in Papeete about April 6.
The “Florence C. Robinson” was built in Ceylon of teak and other native hard woods, is square-rigged forward, and has an overall length of 89 ft. and 19 ft. beam. She draws 8 ft.
En route to Tahiti, via the Panama Canal, they will deliver a small cargo in the Galapagos Islands.