The Smallest
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if ter an official Admiralty well, the smallest ever craft r to attempt to sail around [ world was due to leave stol, England, with crew of *e, on August 26. lamed “Spartan Spirit”, and \t in the owner’s garage, the muda rigged vessel measures ft 6 in. long. On board will the owner, Mr. A. H. Wake 1, ex RN, lan Dunham, aged ex Merchant Navy, and Tom :, aged 20, a “former painter decorator”.
'he Admiralty and its con tors have taken part in the mrations for the voyage with ice on equipment which in les solar stills for making h water. The voyagers will y out experiments with •k repellents and test equip \t for the Royal Naval Life ng Committee.
PRO statement that “much ul data on survival will be led” from the voyage seems :ast a cautionary note over voyage which will be from 't to East with Pacific ports :all at Suva, Tonga, Tahiti, ■er Island, and Panama, end in Bristol in “September, r. t present the “smallest ever” have made the voyage is ?kka” but no doubt some espondent in Outer Mongolia ’ 'filing to tell us that his first nn (once removed ) sailed 18 ft 51 in. craft from the dington Canal Junction to upper reaches of the Amazon back!