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Totesy odtek

Report by Commander C. W. Beckwith,

Enclave 5.

4CO

R.N.

Robert Henry Wetherell,

Master Mariner,

No. of Certificate 0.1.08651, London.

Aged 53 years, has had command in sail and steam

Served for 6 years out of Hongkong in

a number of years.

the Scottish Oriental Co. and had just got a permanent

command when all the ships of this firm were sold to the

Germans. Mr.Wetherell then became a 1st Class Pilot at

Foochow and stayed there some 10 years. He was in charge

of the P.& 0. S.8. Somali" when that ship went ashore,

which necessitated his leaving this service, but which he

claims wasnot his fault, and that no proper investigation

in the accident was held. Mr.Wetherell then came down to

Hongkong and obtained employment in the West River trade,

where he stayed until pirated and burnt out of his ship,

the S.S.Tai On", April, 1914.

8d.

C. T. Beckwith

Harbour Master,

23rd June, 1914.

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