BURIAL AT SEA
Veteran Shipmaster’s
Ashes TASMAN PASSAGE IN HIS LAST SHIP When the Union Company’s steamer Waikouaiti leaves Bluff next Monday for Sydney she will be carrying the ashes of her former commander, the late Captain J. G. Watson, who died at Wellington on April 23. The urn containing the ashes has been placed in the care of Captain M. McKenzie, the pres-' ent master of the Waikouaiti, and when the ship reaches a position midway between Bluff and Sydney she will be stopped for a brief period while the urn is being committed to the deep in the presence of the assembled crew. The late Captain Watson spent 45 years at sea, of which 35 years were in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company. He commanded at various times 29 of the company’s ships, the last being the Waikouaiti, which he joined in 1929 and which he left on March 2, 1935, when he finally retired from the sea.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 10
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163BURIAL AT SEA Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 204, 26 May 1938, Page 10
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