“BLACKBIRDER” IN OLD DAYS
DEATH OF ANCIENT MARINER SAILED IN CUTTY SARK [Pbr United Press Association.! AUCKLAND, September 5. To have sailed in the Cutty Sark in one of her most famous tea races, to have been a blackbirder in the South Seas, and to have known the notorious “ Bully ” Hayes were among the experiences .of Captain George Harvey, formerly of Whangaparaoa, whose death has occurred in' Auckland at the age of 95. Captain Harvey was one of the last of the old commanders who lived through the golden age of sail in the last century. He not only knew life at sea in all kinds of sailing craft, but also served in steam, and navigated a little screw vessel of only 37 tons register from" England to New Zealand more than half a century ago.
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Evening Star, Issue 23055, 6 September 1938, Page 5
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