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LIFE ABOARD A SAILING SHIP.
SEA VETERAN SPEAKS OF HIS EXPERIENCES.
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An idea of the hard lives led by the frun men in wooden saillo ships of 40 to 50 years ago was Kiven by Captain A. J. Holland, R.D., R.N.R.. at the Wesleyan Sal lors and Soldiers' Home Inst night, when he delivered a mont interesting address on "Snillar Ship Days."
Capt. Holland is the Maring Superintendent of the C.P.R., at Vancouver, and is at present in Hongkong on his yearly Spring vinit connexion with his work.
Holland said, in parti
Caph This is not intended to be a lec- ture on sailing ship days but is just a view of the life we led in these ships 40 years ago. Life much at sen dur has changed very
ly,
ing this period, more so, probab. than in any other walk of life. The sea, an knew it when I first atarted, nearly 40 years ago, is a very different proposition to what It is to-day.
Fleets of Square-Riggers,
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1932.
STARTING SAT., 12th.
at
CENTRAL THEATRE
Howard Hughes
-presents
"AGE FOR LOVE"
Billie Dove in a Scène from The age for Love"
A 1932
United Artists Picture.
In those days the ports of the world were filled with square-rig- gers, most of which flew the Red Eaign. In one port alone, in my boyhood days, I remember seeing at least 100 square-riggers which Iny moored there at the Banhe time, wailing for cargo. On every voyage we made large numbera were seen and one of the Aner!! sights which now, unfortunately.tong periods at sen seem to be ni- became Incredible. We can be seen to more, was to be most in a fleet of between 60 and 60 frightfully Ured of each other and
been many of them, as 1 have
our books were all read within times, in the North-East trades, the first month. The only thing approaching England when each that saved from continur! ship was steering practically the quarrelling was hard work same course, as close to the windshort rations, na possible, and each trying to bent the other.
ger
Last One Wrecked.
The Modern Sailor.
and
were very
The sailor of to-day likes hi steam-heated cabins, his good Now, unfortunately, these have food, his soft led and his "boy" all gone, and where, for hundreds to wait upon him, hat in the old of years, the Red Ensign proudly | daya we were always hungry, al- floated over fleets of square-rig-ways tired, always weary but al gera, It is only about eighteen ways well. Our food was sump- months ago that the last of the toas. Hard biscuits for break British square-rigged ships, the fast, hard hisenlts for tea, and Garthpool, was wrecked on the salt perk or beef for dinner. The Azores, and now the British ng biscuits, of course, does not By over any square-rig- hard, and if you rapped them on the table between 30 and 40 little I do not suppose many here black weevils would fall out and have ever nailed in a square-rig-race each other across the table!
have never ger, probably many Heen one, but one of these old clip per ships, under full sall, was, to mind, the most beautiful creation that man ever made. To see them running free, with every sail stretched to ita utmost capa- city, made a picture of grace
and beauty, majesty, stateliness, as they seemed to be flying into the wind.
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any
This lus to be seen to be fully realised and appreciated, and not even the moving pictures of to- day can give you a real iden of what they really looked like.
Wonderful Records.
Water was searce and we were thirsty. In the traples one would often wait up the whole evening to sip over just half a magful of tepid water. The anlt pork or beef was sometimes so hard that we had to break it with a cold chisel! Bat, we managed to get aloog.
There was no time to be sick. Sympathy was never asked for and was never given. It was A ense of the survival of the fittest. Those who lived through it made good. Those who did not, well Davy Jones' Incker found them.
Not all Hardship.
to
These old ships appealed to UB. It was, however, not all hard- They were real personalities and ship. Some of the most gorgeous we Apake of the Cutty Sark or the hour I remember were when 1 Thermopalne with bated breath. was lying on the main deck, t These and many others made night-time in the trade winds, un-
moon, listening wonderful records in the old daysder a full In their races of L0 years ag stories which the old salts told to Those such as the Sierras, Lochs we boys-atories that made our and Shires, and many others, have hair stand on end. It is one of remembrances in our mind which my deepest regrets that I never can never be effaced.
kept a note of these stories, for, even when stripped of their exag- geration, they were
storics Heroism and self-sacrifice which brought back to mind Westward Io and the old mariners of Eng land.
of
Each ship was, of course, the best, and when the crews of rival ships got together and dia- cussed their various merits, the speeds which some of them were reputed to have made would have Atlantic grey made some of our hounds green with envy.
We were certainly proud these ships, especially the one We that we, ourselves, salled in. really went to sen in those days. The average voyage was of 100 days. My own record is 170 days between two ports, or five and a half monthal And to show you how long one trip can really be was, on another occasion, at sea for 132 day without sighting land!
To the modern
of these days, who gets weary after ten dava at sea, oven with wireless, movies and other things, these
man
of
You
My first ship at sea bore the proudest name that any ship can possibly bear. Doubtless wonder what is coming. When I tell you that she bore the proud name of the "British Empire" you can really see that the beast is not an empty one. She was 255 feet long and of 1,600 tons register, and, to me, she was huge and a thing of beauty and joy for over. When compare
are her with my last the ship,
R.M.S. Empress of Japan, of nearly 27,000 tons, and 653 feet in length, the compari- son is certainly a remarkable one. The "British Empire." The "British Empire" salled the
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cape ships have all been broken up or train. The top part was are gono to ther last home beneath of white pearl beads with a cap to the neas. Most of the men who match, and the veil was of white manned them have all gone to tulle and rose point lace. She ear- their long rest where all old sal- ried a sheaf of arum Illies. lors go, and a new race in running ships to-day.
In the old days we used to say that we had wooden ships with iron men. Nowadays, we have fron ships with.....?
Capt. Holland was heartily thanked for his address.
The nieces of the bride, who acted as bridesmaids, were in fine
The bride was given away by her father and the best man was Mr. Emile Gensburger,
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sun pleated dresses of white crepe the Peninsula Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. acorgette, with tulle and white beaded capes and caps, on the same Concoff left for a honeymoon at ines as that of the bride's dress. Repulse Bay, the bride's travelling They carried little white posles: dress being of corn flower blue Mrs. Gensburger was in plum crepe romaine, with a coat of the
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