Adventurous Ketch In Brisbane Water
Wandering the Pacific, and bound for nowhere in particular, this 40ft ketch, Pleiades, from Waitara, New Zealand, has arrived in the Brisbane Water, and is moored at Gosford wharf…
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Shipwrecks & the sea, 1953
8 stories in Central Coast's papers
Pacific Wanderers Sail Ketch Into Gosford From Maoriland
In the ketch, Pleiades, built in a backyard, four young men sailed into Gosford on Monday from New Zealand. They had covered about 2500 miles since leaving their hometown on the North Island in September last year. The boat, now anchored at…
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Tomorrow, May 6, is the 55th anniversary of the wreck of the Maitland. At the time of the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gosford Couple Join Wandering Ketch 'Pleiades' To Sail
A Gosford couple will be on the crew list of the 40ft ketch Pleiades when she leaves Gosford…
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After 13 days at sea, the 40ft New Zealand ketch, Pleiades, entered the harbor at Gladstone, Queensland, on Saturday. On board are Mr. and Mrs. Lance Ellis, of Ma…
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Wirths Circus, which played in Gosford on Friday night, brought happiness to many—but it also…
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During the sixties John Reams (or Kerns as the family now spell their name) and his son Alick,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ketch Pays a Call
PLEIADES, a 40ft ketch, built by three young New Zealanders, who called in at Gosford in the course of a round-the-world cruise…
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