HIS RIVER RECORD
PILOTING VESSELS FOK MOKE THAN 40 YEARS. Ever since the Trinity House Pilotage Service was started at Gravesend many years ago, there has been a Holland on the list of river pilots, says Reynolds, London. Until quite recently there were ten pilots bearing that name, but now there are none, for the last of ths Hollands has retired. He is Captain Arthur Holland, of Parrock-road, Gravesend, who had been a pilot for 41 years. His retirement recalls a brilliant feat of navigation a few years ago when he piloted the P. and O. liner Rajputana from King George Dock, London, to Gravesend, with her rudder out of action, by the engines, a most difficult task considering the narrow and dangerous channel of the river.
There are still seven Channel pilots named Holland at Gravesend,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11929, 22 January 1936, Page 1
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137HIS RIVER RECORD Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11929, 22 January 1936, Page 1
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