HARBOURMASTER RETIRES
“Not Born To Be Drowned” “The Press" Special Service NAPIER, April 26. Captain Thomas E. Bevan, the harbourmaster at Napier—“a man who was never born to oe drowned”—will retire from the sea. His resignation as harbourmaster has been announced. Captain Bevan served at sea throughout the First World War and his ship, the Aparima, was torpedoed in the English Channel. That was. he says, an experience he will never forget. Then still an apprentice. Captain Bevan was in his bunk on that day in 1917 when the torpedo struck the ship almost below him Above him was the open shaft of a ventilator, and up it he went, propelled by the terrific blast from the explosion. He was thrown from the top of the cowling into the water. The official history of the shipping company comments that young Tom Bevan was never born to be drowned.
Captain Bevan was master of the inter-island ferry. Tamahine. until he came ashore in 1942 to become deputy-harbourmaster with the Bluff Harbour Board. He was appointed assistant-har-bourmaster at Napier in \July. 1945, and was promoted to harbourmaster in September, 1948. Captain C. A. Barker, at present assistant-harbourmaster, is to be his successor.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29189, 27 April 1960, Page 18
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