A PLEA FOR THE SAILORS.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—l was not surprised last night when I read your leader re the barque Dovouport having to put into Wellington in a leaky condition. I may state here that I was employed on board the Devon port doing some repairs some ten years ago when Captain Reed was master of the ship, and I thought then that she was scarcely seaworthy. Still those old rattle-traps are allowed to go to sea—but what matters, for sailors are used to being drowned. An old song says there “is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft” that looks after the life of poor Jack, so he has one friend. Trusting some abler pen than mine will take up the subject.—Yours etc., THOMAS BROWN, Ship’s Carpenter.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 May 1906, Page 2
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