Memory of 35 Years Ago
p. 73 · Read in the full issue
THE picture of the dismasted Vega (Dec., PIM) reminds me of an event in February, 1916,” says our Tahiti correspondent. “I was then in the old Sonoma and when 80 miles south of Honolulu, bound for Australia, we sighted a dismasted barquentine which proved to be the Matson Co.’s Irmgard (Capt. Southard).
“When he was within hailing distance Capt. Southard called across that the Mate, Joe Champion, had been badly hurt. My mind immediately went back to the days when he and I had been shipmates in the old Galilee, Champion was an Australian.
‘•When we took the Irmgard in tow, Capt. Southard reported that be had got into a severe gale which caused the loss of the yards and the three masts.”
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. K, B. Borron of Mago Is., Fiji, left for the US and UK in the November Aorangi.