NOW PILOTS SOULS INSTEAD OF SHIPS
SEA CAPTAIN JOINS CHURCH (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Monday. After an adventurous career at sea Captain Harold Harris, senior master of the Wellington Harbour Board’s suction dredge, has retired, and has been ordained as deacon. Next month he will take up the work of assistantcurate at St. Peter’s Church. In 1915, when in charge a.s prise officer of an American ship, carrying contraband cotton,-Captain Harris was captured by the German submarine U3l and taken to Cuxhaven. Captain Harris was second officer on the “Wiltshire when she was wrecked at the Great Barrier. Since then he has been employed by the Canterbury Shipping Company, the Wanganui Harbour Board and the Wellington Harbour Board. In April, 1926, he was promoted to lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Reserve.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 13
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132NOW PILOTS SOULS INSTEAD OF SHIPS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 214, 29 November 1927, Page 13
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