For Missing
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Hope Still Held
Yachtsman
Mr. Hunter Nicol, father of Hedley Nicol, skipper of the 36 ft trimaran Privateer, which vanished after leaving Brisbane for Los Angeles last August, has appealed to Suva asking for inquiries to be made.
Mr. Nicol, of Princess Street, Cleveland, near Brisbane, said in a letter to the Senior Harbour master at Suva, Captain P. G.
Hough, that he believed his son might still be alive.
Mr. Nicol said Privateer left Brisbane on August 17 on an ESE course, intending to pass to the north of the North Island of New Zealand and to follow the Great Circle to the south east of Tahiti and onwards.
The last contact was a radio telegram on August 19 saying his son and crew of two were 300 miles out and all was going well.
“My opinion is that in the event of mast trouble my son may have drifted to some un inhabited island and be held up there,” Mr. Nicol said.