DEATH BREAKS LINK WITH EARLY WHALING HISTORY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The death of Mr Robert Percy Mackay, of Eastbourne, Wellington, removed one of the last surviving links with the early whaling history of the Dominion. Mr Mackay, who was in his eighty-seventh year, served as an apprentice on the barque Splendid, which was operated in the seventies by the Otago Whaling Company. It had always been the contention of Mr Mackay that the Splendid was actually the Cachalot, the adventures of which were described by Mr Frank T. Bullen in his “Cruise of the Cachalot.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 August 1948, Page 4
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