FIRING SHIPS WITH TIMBER
Sir, —Your account of the Bank Line steamship Lochybank arriving at Lyttelton from Auckland with her boilers fired with wood fuel instead of coal seems like history repeated. My father, the late John Russell, mentioned in his memoirs that after a visit to South Canterbury in 1854 he and his brother, Charles Russell, left “Gawlor Downs,” now Anama Station, and arriving at Lyttelton, went on board the steamer Zingaree. Before they reached Wellington Heads the coal ran short and they had a dry couple of days with their screw steamship without any water. Fortunately, there was a lot of heavy timber on board, and they cut it up and steamed in, and were glad to get ashore. After a delay in Wellington, they left for Sydney by the schooner Chuta, which reached there after three weeks’ rough weather. —Yours, etc., EMR. April 11, 1951.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19510412.2.29.9
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26394, 12 April 1951, Page 5
Word Count
148FIRING SHIPS WITH TIMBER Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26394, 12 April 1951, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.