The Archive · 1937

Londoners Plan Voyage to South Africa

Two Londoners have thought of something that hasn't been done before—something a little safer than shooting Niagara -Falls- in a barrel put risky enough. "In a seventy-five-foot speed boat they hope to make the water journey from Southampton to Capetown ip fifty days.

Commander C. 0. Luxmoor, R.N., thirty-six, is pilot, and Robert Stewart, twenty-six, is engineer.

They hope to average 300 miles a day, and their course lies along the French coast, Spanish coast, the Mediterranean, Suez Canal, Red Sea and East African coast,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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