OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 89, 17 April 1939, Page 7

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN C. M. RENAUT

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 16.

A unique family association witK ships and the sea has been broken by the death in London on Saturday of Captain Charles Malcolm Renaut, formerly of Christchurch. It was aa association that comprehended the best part of a century, three generations of sea captains, and the change from sail to steam, and,1 indeed, from steam to motor power.

Captain Renaut's grandfather, Captain William Renaut, brought to Otago lin 1848 the Blundell, the third immigrant ship to arrive there and the first to be entered in the Customs records in Port • Chalmers. His father, Captain C. H. Renaut, was famous as cap* tain of-the clipper ship Crusader, which made record passages from New Zealand to England, and also of the Pleione and other ships of the Shaw Savill's early fleet. Captain C. M. Renaut, who was 69 years of age, first served with his father in sailing ships, later transferred to steam, and for many years commanded Union Company vessels. He was appointed surveyor of ships in the Marine Department, Auckland, in 1911, and was transferred to Lyttelton in 1923, being appointed superintendent of mercantile marine there in 1929. He retired in May, 1935.

Captain Renaut went to England early last year. He and Mrs. Renaut, formerly Miss Isabella Ormiston, Dunedin, intended returning to New Zealand' in November next. He leaves one son, Mr. J. O. Renaut, London, and two daughters, Mrs. R. T. Roberts, Wellington, and Mrs. L. M. Aitken, Christchurch.