Yankee Quarantined
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Mous Wanderer
The Pacific
Yankee Quarantined Suva
(See also Shipping News) HE famous American brigantine Yankee, made famous during the last 20 or more years [High the voyagings of the owners, nmander Irving M. Johnson and t wife, Mrs. Electa Johnson, ived unexpectedly in Suva on ter Sunday, April 21, and tailed for medical help.
I sick man, Don Alehin, was fnosed as a case of polio. He placed immediately in Suva pital, and the Yankee, and imander and Mrs. Johnson and crew members were sent into rantine. or a week, the handsome Yankee directly off the town, flying the )w flag. The sick man was to lown back to the US. le quarantine period expired on il 28, and the brigantine went gside the main wharf, and met iy friends. le Johnsons own a large book ng business in the United States, return there at intervals; but have spent nearly a quarter ury wandering all over the h and South Pacific, in their
luxuriously-fitted ships, writing books and articles, and dabbling a little in scientific matters. Both — and especially Mrs. Electa Johnson —have written many valuable articles for PIM.
It is probable that this will be the last voyage of the Yankee.
She is due in her home port on May 4, 1958.