A VRTERAN SHIPMASTER.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14667, 16 May 1913, Page 9

A VRTERAN SHIPMASTER.

ItETIHEMKXT OF CAPTAIN KEMTSON.

The Liverpool .Icurnel oF Commerce of March S3skl, Jiays: —Captain C. 11. Jt*rnpsoa, i>t thf White "Star ILM.S. Athenic. *fk» innoDgst tie v:sitoT«t to the rooms cf t!t*> ilorcuniiie Marine Service AftSooiivtirih fhi» jv«»ek, where ho rat warmly wmjrr»tuUt«d oii iris !tp;x>intnu-i!t <in ■uiarin* eJijß*rinief\disnt (j the WhiUi Star and allied lines «t the port. rf Plvmcuth, where h* will etwrUj: enter upon hi* re-fixJ/jKib!* , duties. Captain Koiudsun hte many kiiKfly remcmliranow of Im connertjon with tho part oi Lix-erpool, h l * early days having been spent on hoard t]«o w<sll-known cudcl ship Contvay, which li* J«ft Co far back fte 1809 on being i*j>}iTcutioi.T[l t<> the lat/> Mr T. il. Ismjty. under whose flaff the wliole of liii nauticul ceretrr ha» >mvii ■iponl, tin* succesw. ot which m«y V* in«»*uro\l'■;y his jiresent important appointmeiiJ.. nis rarevr lias Iwn greatly r*ried bj' trmjinsr, for the cmup&uy in tho Pariflc, «* well hi in the X-jtv- Zealand tratk, tho latter lx>ing his repiltr Mm for many yeajs jMt»l. Captain K«mpw>n ia ft (rrcal believer in the rnip'oyment r.l Bnti«h 'seamen, aaid many important literary contributions huto »T>p*»te<l in i\nt Pre:w "fro:a him on thi* niUcli cohte»t«i embjoct. Notwithstanding <lm ' contention* of jnnnv irwmbers «>f hi* cloth, he ha* sUirava maintained that !l)o fJntlnh «cj.man was thu best rnnipriul in the \rorldi and it Imml t>eea his gt>cd iortunc to be ablo to iu4n )iis rfripn with tliio cla3r. A younger btotber of th« Trinity Hou«i Iβ one of hie qualifications, which t«nde to show how Uecnlv hie interest in the (Service is recognised by thoso who ire aiuwciated with thin nnc.ent n«utic*l jnetii'.ilion. In his new appointment Captain Knntppem hits the best wiuhes of hie nuUiy friendu in th« Bcn'ice, particularly thcue conr.ecJ«d ' with the Whiu , Star Line.