EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 163, 9 January 1914, Page 7

EXPERIENCES AND ADVENTURES.

TIUO STORY OF THE I.ADY JOCELYX. An instance of the 111:1 tiv■-colored experiences ami adventures which may befall a long-lived ship is to be found ill story of tiie Lady .Tucclvn, This venerable ship, now with nothing standing above Iter lower masts, was lying in Dublin Harbor when the last mail left the Old Country. She had just been towed across from London docks, in order that she might be used a* a lodginghome fur the "free" laborers working on the waterside, and accommodation was provided in her 'tweeiwlocks and hold for six hundred strike-breakers. This is not the lirst time the old clipper has been used as a strike-breaking ship, as in the last big strike of London dockers she tilled a simihtr ollice. The Lady Jocelyn was once the fastest clipper trading in ar.:l out. of Port Lyitel-tc-n, and she carried many thousand 1 bales of wool and carcases of frozen inutI ion round t ape Horn to London town. That was from twenty-live to thirty-live yeans ago. She was a beautiful example of the old-timers, one of the lirst large vessels built of iron, shipely although ma*-ive of 1 mi!. and very loftily sparred, lint long before she lirst leaded in a New Zealand porl the Lady Jocelyn had helped to make history, as long ago, indeed, as the d:i\s of the Crimean war. It is sixty n!ie years since the Ladv Joctl.vn w\w launched, and it was not

«■■ a sailing dipper that die first took .the ocean path." She was built as a -;ivw Kteanidiip. with sliip rig, and it was infciided that she should be a 111 a.. liner in the trade between London and South America. ,Her original name was the Brazil. Ilat after a few voyages in the busines- for which she was built she was put to very dill'crenl u.-e. When the war in the Crimea began she was chartered to carry liritish .troops to the I'.lack Sea. and she made several trips to the Crimea, taking fresh drafts out and bringing home campaign-worn invalids. For ten years (lie Lady Jncelyit as she had been renamed, was employed cliieily as " troopship, taking thousands of soldiers aii.l ih'-ir wi\e„ to India, China, and New Zealand. At the. end of If!'.;:! she lauded the 43rd Kcgiment at .Auckland for the Maori war. Later the Shaw-Savill Company aci|aired her. and, taking her eagines out. made her a sailing ship and placed her in the New Zealand passengt r and ee.igo trade.

Conwrted deamsaips rarely make snca ■■-I'll s.;i!fi!>. bat the l.a'ilv .lecdyn

•v.is an r \ 11 i 11. Year a tier viar slm (■t:i!dslei;tlv made and no slii[< was i::11 t-i• popular willi Dip colon:al oi-i'an ir:iu'!]i'i'.s of (luisc days. In 1X77 iin:l IS7S siic lirouu'iit out .Mi 1 . N'i'K'V SU-warl's Xortli of Ireland an I Irtish :■ ■lil.-r, for Katikali ■>":! 'IV I'ukc. in i■i ■ * Hit v of I'll nit. Kvi n in lirr old a,L!\\ ill ISHII, she made (lie t'iiste.st pa:sa-;e hi' t'io i-rar flora LvUelloii to London. In sailing ilic iiistanc!' in si'Vrni ydive dais. Teat liars). i!' >pacil "'a-, (hr eli|.|n-i"s la-;!, vavajir. for many tears now *ae has lreo moored in flic ;i si oiv-iii;! for fn.z -;i meal end a doe!*; ;-.' jiorae.s and sferr, vessel. 'i'iH' nauil.rr of ismv!r«i\ of tliou- ant!* of mill's, tin l I,::d■ -lo'.'t l ' ill lias sailed in !|"1- lime v.'uiiid )>;• iiitere-1 iiur t-;i■ lion for soai" .!ii;i))!ir; sl.alistiei.ui. but f.'i- more inttT! -tir.if would ha the siurv. maid it lia licrcil, of tiic Imuran ro- [ mama' and endeavor ami pallios tvliii-li have around Ilic old sea |iilKi'im (taring l.ii" ypnrs siiM'i> sdie carried lier soldier* out to lii;iit Victoria's wars I in till' Crimea and Indian Mutiny.