SHIPPING NEWS

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32885, 7 April 1972, Page 17

SHIPPING NEWS

Polish shipmaster had eventful war

A 52-year-old Polish born, but I British naturalised shipmaster I commands the British India steam Navigation Company’s 8199 1 ton Teesta, now loading refrig- 1 erated and general cargo, includ- I Ing wool, for Guam and Japan, I at Gladstone Pier. He is Captain Kazimierz Malawski, who now Uves in Durban with his South African wife and ■ daughter. He went to sea by accident, he said yesterday. At 18, Captain Malawskl was doing , general service with the Polish army. He was captured by the Germans during the defence of Warsaw, and imprisoned in East Prussia, but escaped on Christmas Eve. 1939. to Estonia. When the Russians occupied Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, he was captured while working on an Estonian farm, and imprisoned at TalUn. He was transferred to LeninSrad and subsequently to the readed Butyrki Prison, In Moscow, where he spent nine months on a charge of espionage, he was sentenced to 10 years hard labour. Captain Malawski worked in a Siberian forest and sawmill, but was released when Germany invaded Russia. By hitch-hiking, and asking for lifts in trains, trucks and drays, he reached Tashkent, and joined the Polish army of General Anders, recruited from Poles on Russian soU. He went with the army to the Middle East, where he volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force, and was then sent to the United Kingdom. But instead of the R.A.F. he joined the remnant Polish Navy, which had escaped to Great Britain. In 1947, he left the navjas a sub-lieutenant and joined the British India Steam Navigation Company in Singapore in 1947. In due course he passed all his certificates. In 1970. Captain Malawski obtained his first command. He is one of four Polish-born shipmasters in this company. One of his contemporaries. Captain J. R. Sokalski. of the Tanda, was in Lyttelton last January. Another contemporary is Captain A. PohlSullkosky, a Union Steam Ship ■ Company master. There were several others in various com- ■ panies, Captain Malawski said 1 yesterday. The Teesta came from the Per- > sian Gulf to Timaru in ballast. • She loaded there, and, after Lyt- : telton, will complete at Napier. 1 Auckland and Tauranga # * Si ARRIVAL ! Athelviscount (6.30 a.m.), 12,778, . Capt. R. Warriner, Marsden 1 Point (U.S.S.). (Tanker.) ’ Teesta (7.5 a.m), 8199. Capt. 1 Kazimierz Malawski, Timaru (P ; and O (N.Z.), Ltd). Rangatira (6.15 p.m.). 9387, Capt. A. F. Mclntyre. Wellington (U.S.S.). (Daylight.) DEPARTURES ' Port Pirie (5 p.m.), 10,537, Capt. N. Sinclair, Dunedin (Blueport). Rangatira (9 p.m), 9387, Capt. A. F. Mclntyre, Wellington (U.S.S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS ■ Holmlea, Wellington, today. ’ Hamilton. Marsden Point, today. ■ Crusader, Wellington, April 8. ■ Wiesbaden, Wellington, April 8. 1 Straat Cumberland, Auckland, 8. i Rangatira, Wellington, April 8.

Holmdale, Nelson. April 8. Colorado Star, Auckland, April Hlnakura, Wellington, April 9. Majestic, Wellington, April 9. Rangatira, Wellington, April 9. Silver Crane, Baton Rouge, April Hawea, Auckland, April 10. Mosor, Wellington, April 11. Straat Colombo, Nelson, April 11. Bernhard, Ocean Island, April 12. Northern Star, Wellington, April 13. Tawanui, Tauranga. April 13. Holmburn, Brisbane. April 14. Aremar, Guayaquil, April 14. Maheno, Wellington, April 14. Maritime Explorer, Auckland, April 15. Sussex. Napier, April 15. Baron Maciay, Vancouver, midApril. Bolnes, Christmas Island, April Loire Lloyd, Napier, April 17. Cape Thevenard, April Kaitoke. Wellington, April 20. Cap Melville. Los Angeles, April 2Q. Tiber, Wellington, April 21. Ngakuta, Wellington, April 22. Kweichow, Melbourne, April 22. Chakdina, Dunedin, April 23. Canopic, Wellington, April 23. Wyvern, Auckland, April 23. Port Louis Maru, Wellington, April 25. Waikare, Tauranga, April 25. Patonga, Napier. April 27. Regent Fleur, Auckland. April 27. . Neder Rijn, Wellington, April 29 Rimu, Wellington, April , Willowbank, Mexican Gulf, May ; Newcastle Star, Picton, May 1. I Otaio. Wellington, May 3. Hupeh, Wellington, May 4. ' Straat Clement, Napier, May 4. Timaru Star, Newcastle. May 4. Turakina, Wellington, May 4. PROJECTED DEPARTURES . Athelviscount, Bluff, today. • Straat Lagos, Tauranga, today. . Holmlea, Wellington, today. i Prima Maru, New Plymouth, • April 8 . Rangatira, Wellington, April 8 > (daylight). ■ Hamilton, Dunedin, April 8. . Rangatira, Wellington, April 9. I Teesta. Napier, April 9. Eltanin sea, April 10. . Crusader, Port Chalmers, April 10. . Holmdale, Chatham, April 11. . Wiesbaden, Bluff, April 11. Straat Cumberland. Dunedin, April 11. Majestic, Dunedin, April 11. Silver Crane, Auckland, April 12. Hawea, Auckland, April 12. Colorado Star, Dunedin, April 12. Mosor, Dunedin. April 12. I Tawanui Tauranga, April 13. Northern Star, Auckland, April 13. ; Hlnakura, Port Chalmers, April 13. Straat Colombo, Tauranga, April • 13. Maheno, Sydney, April 14 Bernhard, Dunedin, April 14. Aremar. Auckland, April 15. Baron Maciay, Bluff, mid-April. , Holmburn, Onehunga, April 17. 1 Maritime Explorer, Dunedin, April 19. , Bolnes, Bluff, April 19. - Sussex. Dunkirk, April 20 Cap Melville, Wellington, April 20. Kowhai, —, April 21. Tiber, Dunedin, April 23. Kweichow, Napier, April 24 Loire Lloyd, Wellington, April 24. Kaitoke, Dunedin, April 25. ■ Wyvern, Melbourne, April 2}. Port Louis Maru, Timaru, April 26. ' Ngakuta, —, April 26. Canopic, Dunedin, April 27. Waikare, Dunedin, April 27. Chakdina, Wellington, April 28. Patonga, Bermuda, April 29. Regent Fleur, Bluff, April 29. Newcastle Star, Wellington, May 3. J Neder Rijn, Timaru, May 3. Japan Rimu, Dunedin. May 3. Otaio, Dunedin, May 5. Willowbank, —, May 5. Hupeh, Tauranga, May 5. Timaru Star, Wellington. May 6. VESSELS IN PORT Straat Lagoa, No. 2 Caahln Quay. Teesta, G.P.E. Eltanin, No. 6 West. Prima Maru, No. 7 West. Mawhera, Graving Dock. Athelviscount, oil wharf.