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— Tim
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The Flick That Made Flynn
06
Dec
The Sirocco Calls In
05
Dec
Morning Bulletin, Rockhampton, Qld. June 18, 1930
OFF TO NEW GUINEA.
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FOUR ADVENTURERS.
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The Sirocco Calls In.
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ONE TIME CRACK YACHT.
Long, narrow-waisted, black-hulled,with towering stick scowing above the wharf decking, but bearing little signs of the buffeting she has received on her voyage, the Sirocco, late of Royal Sydney Yacht Club, now bound for New Guinea and the beche de mer and trochus shell, nine days up from Sydney, lies at the old town wharf.
Fifty years old, but as staunch as the day she slipped into the water for the first time at the Circular Quay slips, the Sirocco will know a different atmosphere now from the one she has been accustomed to so long. Her youthful crew know where they are going. First there is Captain Errol Flynn, late Cambridge undergrad, now planter on a lonely island 40 miles from mysterious Madang, the island of the “White Kanakas,” where he dispenses high and low justice to his 40 odd natives and bears his share of the white man’s burden.
“This is our navigator,” said Captain Errol Flynn, from under his blankets when a “Bulletin” man stepped aboard. “You’ll have to excuse me. Just a touch of malaria. But meet the crew.” Mr. T. Adams, another young Englishman, is the navigator. Close clipped moustache, accent, and physique brand him unmistakably the product of University. Mr. C. Burt, another member of the crew, is also an Englishman, and Australia is represented by Mr. Rex Long-Innes, son of Judge Long-Innes, who is going forth with the others to seek his fortune in the South Seas.
When they talked it was mostly about their argosy.
‘”She’s old, but she’s good,” says the skipper, with pride in his voice, and he told the “Bulletin” man how she logged 14 for three hours in a howling south-easter that piled them up in Coff’s Harbour with a foot of water in the cabin.
“Forty-four feet over all, with a Swedish oil engine, we’re not worrying about the weather,” they add. Already they have had their share of adventure on the trip. They made their names and took their baptismswhen they crossed the bars in northern New South Wales in howling gales. They went ashore in Great Sandy Straits, and had more than their share of rough weather but builders builded well 50 years ago, and lean-waisted as she is the Sirocco has ten tons of lead under her keel.
In the cabin, where the captain lies with malaria, where the “crew” sit round in shorts, and where two business-like rifles are fast in clips above the bunks, one might have thought yesterday that the Sirocco had reached to sea to seek their fortunes.
— Tim
Errol’s (Erroneous) Erolus
01
Dec
Shaking things up in Malta with a possibly erroneous Verse of the Black Pearl:
“A story that encompasses legend and reality, starting from Errol Flynn”
(A)Erolus:
— Tim
After Party Ghost List
20
Nov
Ghost List for the After Party: A to Z
Hedy, Bev and Niv’ all are said to have said that Errol’s powerful spirit remained here after his death, or at least occasionally returned. The Hamblems and Nelsons believed so, too – along with other presences at Errol’s favorite old haunt, Mulholland Farm. Paranormal activities have abounded on the Zaca, too, it’s been said.
So, whether you believe in ghosts, or not, let’s explore the legends. Don’t be afraid of no ghosts.…. That’s the spirit.
If they exist at all, were they somehow connected to Errol, or perhaps to James Lankershim, the land’s former owner, or someone else entirely???
What are your thoughts?
Here are some things that were reported at Mulholland after Errol’s death:
Apparitions All through the House
Breaking of Glass
Cheap Perfume in Upstairs Room, and Elsewhere
Cynical Presence
Dark Presence
Doors Locked from Inside Empty Rooms
Entire House Shook When Errol Died
Errol in a Tuxedo, Celebrating New Years
Haunted Casino
Man in the Mirror
Powerful Sexual Energy
Spectral Naked Lady
Spooky Den
Top of the Stairs
Unexplainable Noises
Ghost Ship?
… Zaca, too, it’s been said
Clinking of Glasses
Errol Pacing the Deck
Laughter of Women
Dancers on Deck
Silhouettes of Partiers On Board
Sounds of Music
Uproars of Laughter
— Tim
Q.T. on the QM.
24
Oct
Thanks to the astonishing detective work of our Captain, Sir David DeWitt, we know exactly where Errol stayed on his famous and somewhat fateful cruise to see the Spanish Civil War aboard the RMS Queen Mary in the Spring of 1937.
Here, along with an original photo of Errol on the bow, are some photos taken aboard the QM earlier this week:
Flynn off to Spain, via Lili & Paris. Image from Josef Fegerl’s Errol Flynn, Dr. Herman F. Erben – A Frienship of Two Adventerers 1933-1940
A Flynn Fan from Florida
Flynn’s Room M012, formerly M38 (Interior Photos to be Posted at a Later Date)
Where Errol Drank & Entertained
Where He Bought His Cigs & Sundries
Where He Dined
A Flynn Fan from Germany, Doing a Titanic Kate Winslow Tribute to Errol She Said!
— Tim
