HISTORY
Left: The Crew stopped off in California and seen pictured here with Bette Davis
Right: The tai Mo Shan sailing into Dartmouth ,16,000 miles after setting off from Hong Kong.
Pictures from the Tai Mo Shan website:
Tai-mo-shan.co.uk
house British submarines within striking distance of the Japanese mainland. Their voyage took in places that were, in many ways, unremarkable and quite out of their way but strategically vital in the Pacific region. Interestingly, the Japanese Navy was to use the Kentiles
Islands, one of their destinations, as a base before the attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. The voyage took one day less than an exact year and was not without incident. They first had to sail through a typhoon. Sherwood said she was ‘perfectly balanced’ and never gave them a moment’s anxiety. They found themselves a lauded novelty wherever they landed and seemed to have enjoyed it immensely. For good measure, Ryder also sailed them perfectly through a treacherous coral reef without incident. It speaks volumes for the fun the five men were having
that Lt Francis’ main gripe about the voyage was the fact he lost his dress jacket, making it embarrassing when
attending formal dinners thrown in their honour. Intriguingly, he lost the jacket “whilst trying to buy a monkey” in Formosa. They stopped off in California before heading through
the Panama Canal and used the opportunity to visit Fox and Warner Brothers Studios: there is a remarkable picture of the five men, in lovely double-breasted suits, surrounding a small, smiling blonde woman: Bette Davis. After the Panama Canal, they must have felt they were heading into the final furlong of their epic journey. They were about to come closest to disaster. When the crew ran aground, in the Caribbean’s Crooked
Island and were left stranded for 16 days, the island’s inhabitants, who only owned one shovel between them, were of little help, so Ryder sailed off in their dinghy to find help. As he sailed away, his colleagues must have wondered if
they would see him again and if there would be a chance of rescuing their 54-foot vessel, which had withstood all the high seas could throw at it. • Part 2 to be published in our July issue - out 26th
June 2015
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