EMBELLISHING THE TALE
"Ships and the Sea’"’ Arouses Interest NE of the most interesting features about "Ships and the Sea," which is presented regularly over the commercial stations by Peter Whitchurch, is the number of letters received from listeners who have had some connection with, or know some further facts about the episode Peter has been discussing. His description of the sinking of the Titanic, for instance, was followed by a letter from a New Zealander who was on the California, only 60 miles away, the night the Titanic was sunk. Again, his story of the life of Sir Ernest Shackleton brought a letter from a resident of Eketahuna, Wairarapa, who served under Sir Ernest during the Nimrod’s two voyages to the Antarctic in 1908-09. His story of the wreck of the Cospatrick was followed keenly by an Auckland resident whose grandparents had booked passages by the Cospatrick but later cancelled them, Recently Peter conducted a broadcast from the Turnbull Library, Wellington, where an unusual piece of furniture is a chair made from the timber of the ship Inconstant, Which was stranded, in August, 1850, on a point near Pencarrow, at the mouth of the Wellington Harbour. The ship was subsequently beached on the foreshore and used as a storehouse, and the point was afterwards called "Inconstant Point." Peter Whitchurch has been transferred to Station 3ZB Christchurch, but "Ships and the Sea" is unaffected by the change,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 10
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