Trail of plates across Atlantic

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33426, 7 January 1974, Page 4

Trail of plates across Atlantic

Nobody enjoys doing dishes, although automation has improved the lot of some housei wives (and husbands). At sea dishwashing is a massive operj ation, especially aboard a passenger liner. In the early 1920 s when jobs i were few and catering staff bad meagre wages, great Atlantic | liners of the Cunard. White Stat and other lines were the main link between Britain. Europe, the 1 Mediterranean and North America ! Older seamen recall, not with approval but with a chuckle, some Of tile antics ot the ca.eiJng staff in the •'Atlantic ferry I service. For spite, to score oil an unpopular superior or just lor i cussedness oi laziness, great stacks of unwashed dishes and cutlery were often dumped into the Atlantic to save washing them. . If could never be proved. Rough weather sometimes destroyed a pile of dishes in those days too. But between bouthampton 01 Liverpool and New York, was biased a trail of plates cutlery, and beer hotties. Such wastage was not only confined to eater 'ing staff, nor to any one ocean. Other stores disappeared overboard from time to time Great shipping lines had huge reserves of stores, including entlerv, china and so on. Tney still do. It is regrettable but lew shipping lines have much luck with ash trays. Tills was the only way mat some employees felt they could avenge alleged injustices, or mitigate their lowly lot. A scullion, for instance on meagre wages 01 those days, peeling potatoes from davbreak till dark, backwards and forwards from New Vork to Southampton, may not have gleaned much hope for the future There was a huge gulf between his lot and that of the first-class passengers then. All that has long changed, and; for the better. Aboard any modern vessel at Lyttelton there is an entirely new concept. Catering staff have excellent facill-i ties, and good wages, accommo datum and privileges. sk sj> & ARRIVALS Saturday Rangatira (6.34 p.ni.t. 9387, Capt. A. F. Mclntyre. Wellington! (U.S.S.). (Daylight.) Sunday Kotei Marti (7.57 a.m.). 9041, Capt. R Hirokawa, Wellington (N.S.S.). ‘ departures Saturday Herstein (6.23 am.), 12,978, Capt Lief Jensen. Wellington (U.S.S.). (Tanker.) Hobart Star (6.28 p.m.), 8398, Capt. W. J. G. Jones, New Plymouth (Blueport). Sunday Rangatira (8.38 p.m.), 9387, Capt. A. F, Mclntyre, Wellington (U.S S.). EXPECTED ARRIVALS Antarttco. Tauranga today. Persian Reefer, Auckland, today. | Athelviscount. Marsden Point,] today. Pukeko, Tauranga. today. Rangatira, Wellington, today. Rangatira, Wellington, January 8.

Bayernstein, Wellington January ’9- 1 I Maheno. Auckland. January 9 i Strain Cumberland. Wellington. January 9. I Tacoma Maru Wellington. January 9. Rangatira, Wellington, January 9. Piako, Wellington. January 12 iStraat Lu?ou. Wellington, Janu- . arv 12. I Wenchow, Wellington, Januai y : 13. Timaru Star. Wellington, January ‘I 1:! - : Medic, Napier, January 13 Westmorland Napier. January 14. ‘ Canopic South America, January It. Zaida Wellington. January >■> H.M N.Z.S. Inverell, sea. January 14. Koraki. Dunedin, January 15 ,‘Stnkiang Wellington. January 15. ' Hawea Wellington. Januaiy !.'> Luka Botlc. Auckland January 16. Union New Zealand, Dunedin, January 16 11.M.V. Britannia. —. January 1.. Tama Maru. Wellington, Jatmaty Japan Koble. Wellington, January 18 Stolt Sea. January 18. II M N’.Z S. c anterbury, —, January 18. Aftadelfos, Wellington, January 19. Manapourl. Wellington, January 20. Torrens Nelson. January 2! 'Zeebrugge. Wellington. January 21. Vishva Mahima, Wellington, January 23. Union Trans Tasman. Cape Thevenard. January 23. H.M.A.S. Anzac. . Jan. 24 Ocean Monarch, Sydney, January 24. (Games cruise.) Marco Polo, Sydney. January 24. (Games cruite.) Ngakuta. Auckland January 25. Antarctica January 25. Hague Maru Wellington. January 27. Port Launceston, Wellington, January 27. Royal Viking Star, Wellington, January 27. (World cruise.> I Cumberland, Nelson, January 28. IC'ap Vilano. New Plymouth, January 28. Teesta. Wellington, January 28 H.M S. Jupiter. . January 29. Carpentaria, Picton, January 29. Hupeh. Wellington. January 31 Tasmania Star, Wellington, JanuI arv 31. j Japan Kauri, Nagoya, February ! 3. Leuve Lloyd, Wellington, February 7. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Milburn Carrier, . early January. Holmdale, Gisborne, today. Rangatira Wellington, today. Rangatira, Wellington, January 8 (daylight). Antartico. Clille, January 8 Persian Reefer, . January 8. Pukeko Dunedin, January 8 Kotei Maru, Cape Thevenard,

January 8. Athelviscount, Timaru. January 8. (Tanker.) Frysna, Tauranga. January 9. Rangatira. Wellington, January 9. Maheno Wellington, January 10. Bayeinstein, Timaru. January It. Straat Cumberland, Auckland, January 11. Tacoma Maru, Dunedin. January 12. I Timaru Star, Bluff, January 15. Hawea, Dunedin, January 15. Westmorland. Bermuda. January 16. Piako. Dunedin, January 16 Wenchow, Napier, January 16 Straat Luzon, Dunedin. January 17. Tama Maru, January 17, Zaida, Tauranga. January 17. Sinkiang, Tauranga. January 17. Medic. Dunedin, January 17. Luka Bofic, Dunedin, January 18. Koraki. Wellington. January 18. Canopic, Napier. January 19. Japan Roble Dunedin, January 21. Stolt Sea, . January 21. Aftadelfos Dunedin. January 22. Torrens, Dunedin, January 23. Zeebrugge Dunedin, January 24. Manapouri, Dunedin. January 24. Vishva Mahima, Dunedin. January Tasmania Star. Bluff, February 2. U.S.N.S. Private John ft Towle, McMurdo Sound, February 2 H.M.Y. Britannia, Whangarei, February 3. 26. Royal Viking Star. Milford Sound, January 2". (World cruise.) Hague Maru, Auckland. January 30. Port Launceston, —, January 30. Ngakuta. Port Chalmers. January 30 (survey). Cap Vilano, Dunedin, January 31. Carpentaria, Dunedin, February 1. Teesta. Napier. February I. Marco Polo, Sydney, February 2 (games cruise). Cumberland, Dunedin. February 2. Hupeh, Tauranga. February 2. Ocean Monarch, Sydney, February 3 (games cruise). H.M.N.Z.S. Inverell. —. February 3. H.M.N.Z.S. Canterbury. —, February 3. H.M.A.S. Anzac. —, February 3. H.M.S. Jupiter, —, February 4. Japan Kauri, New Plymouth, February 8. Leuve Lloyd. Bluff, February 9. VESSELS IN PORT Kotei Maru, G.P.E. Frysna, No. 1 B.W. Milburn Carrier. No. 6 West (survey). Holmdale No. 7 East