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Phyllis Townsend publishes a freighter-travel account, 1989

Also Phyllis Townsend freighter travel account · Columbus-New Zealand freighter cruise report

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Date1989-08
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Summary

The August 1989 Beaver Beacon published Phyllis Townsend’s account of a freighter trip she took from October through December 1988. She described the Columbus-New Zealand’s route through the Panama Canal, ports in Australia and New Zealand, an unscheduled stop at Pitcairn Island, and the practicalities of freighter travel.

Evidence limits

This is a first-person travel publication, not an independently verified itinerary or complete travel record.

Sources

  1. Publishes Townsend's first-person account of the Columbus-New Zealand freighter trip from Charleston and Philadelphia through the Panama Canal, Australia, Auckland, Pitcairn Island, and the return voyage. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1989-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. Paired held twenty-four-page August issue PDF for the canonical OCR source.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1989-08_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Phyllis Townsend publishes a freighter-travel account, 1989”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-phyllis-townsend-freighter-travel-account-1989/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1989, "FREIGHTER TRAVEL" by Phyllis Townsend. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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