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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10167, 23 July 1924, Page 8

After 14 years’ peaceful existence alongside a Sydney wharf, the hulk Loch Katrine is to leave the New South Wales port for Rabaul. Jhe Loch Katrine has an interesting history. First of the famous Loch line of ciippers to arrive in Australia, she reached Melbourne in 1869, closely followed bv the Loch Ness. Before sailinrr from Glasgow, says an Australian journal, the boatswains of the two vessels became involved m the perennial sea argument whether a ship when in stays” (going about) is necessarily m irons ” Loch Katrine held that a vessel in stays still carried headway and was under control, whereas m irons” meant that she was all aback helpless. Loch Katrine maintained that the terms were synonymous that a ship naturally got in irons every time she went about. The con troversialists soon came to blows; they were separated and placed aboard their respective ships. Three months latei, when the two vessels came together again, the bo’s’n of the Loch Ness ■ibnroached his rival on the Loch kße “Now we’ll settle that argu-i ment” ho roared, and commenced peeling off his heavy guernsey. 11 - Katrine’s hoVn hopped ashore while his opponent’s head and arms were entangled in the guernsey. Yes, he amended, “ Fll settle it now, while you’re in irons.” And he did. (