Small Boat For Long
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Voyage
rE Rev. Father Claude Palmer, who had made an appeal for a navi gator and two able-bodied men to sail a 40 ft. boat to the Solomons, left Brisbane early in September on a 2,000 mile voyage to Guadalcanal in a 15-ton diesel-powered ketch, the “Lina Maria.”
The money for the purchase of the ketch was raised entirely through the generosity of his Brisbane friends. They gave the missionary more than £2,000.
The white crew comprised Mr. Peter Burke, of East Brisbane (captain and navigator) and Mr. Phil. Hickey, of Nun dah (engineer).
The natives, Clement Kouti and Juliano Anisimie, arrived in Brisbane by ship from the Marist Brothers’ High School at Guadalcanal, to help man the ketch.
The “Lina Maria” leaving Brisbane. —By courtesy of Brisbane “Courier Mail.”