Mishap To "Alone" Feared
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FEARS were expressed in Auckland, NZ, on June 2, for the safety of the 27 ft. American yawl “Alone” which left Suva, Fiji, on May 2 for Auckland and has not been sighted since.
Fiji knows the “Alone” and her owner skipper, Mr. Francis Agnew, well. The “Alone” recently spent the hurricane sea son in the Colony after over 12 months cruise between Panama and the South Pacific.
Mr. Agnew was accompanied on the Suva-Auckland stage of the journey by Mr. T. Bish of Suva.
It is stated that it would not be un precedented for so small a vessel to take as much as three weeks or even a little longer to make the voyage from Suva to Auckland, but now that more than four weeks have elapsed the possibility of the “Alone” having met with a mishap is not being discounted.
After the “Alone” left Suva, there was bad weather south of the Kermadee Group. “Alone” may have been blown from her course.
Planes flying over the area have been instructed to keep a watch for the small vessel.