Journal of a voyage in Olivebank, Port Lincoln to Falmouth and Glasgow, 14 March 1938-01 October 1938

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Details of loading cargo at Port Victoria; extra police on duty from Adelaide 'hanging around looking for trouble and we generally gave them a run for their money as, of course, it would be bad for them to get their pay for nothing'; voyage via Cape of Good Hope; weather; duties on board; rationing of fruit and chocolate; changing sails; short rations; sighted Ascension Island; Falmouth after 135 days; Glasgow.

Includes: Crew list; sail list; photographs of life on board, crew etc. and press cutting 'Woman sails as able bodied seaman' Daily Tribune (Durban), 10 January 1938.

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