AN OLD SAILOR.
A real old sailor of the sailing ship days is a mtemlber of the crew of "one of the steamers at present in Port Chalmers. After a stay of several years ashore in Scotland he joined this vessel, expecting to ibe away .for three or four months, hut lie has now been on the ship for
fourteen months, and there is no saying when he may get back to the Firth of Forth. He was fo|r a voyage on the barque Ranee before the voyage on which she was sunk at Port Chalmers in 1890 to extinguish a fine in her shale cargo. Before that, again, he was in New Zealand ou the ship Wellington. His longest passage on a sailer was on tlve bairque Glenbr.oek, when, loaded with wheat, she took 178 days from San Francisco to Falmouth for orders.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3966, 9 July 1929, Page 4
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144AN OLD SAILOR. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3966, 9 July 1929, Page 4
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