A SEAFARING FAMILY.
FATHER, SON AND GRANDSON. Fifty-two years at sea in the employ of one firm in which his son and grandson are also serving, is the record ox Captain W. Wildman, of Nelson, commander of tho Anchor Shipping Company's steamer Arahura, now plying in tne Welling-ton-Nelson forry service. It was on May 20 that Captain Wildman completed his 52nd year with the Anchor Company. He looks hale and hearty and says he feels well enough for years of sea-going service yet. Many years ago he was in command of the Waverley, an Auckland-built steamer, which has now ended her career and in that ship his son sailed with him as boy. The son is Captain A. Wildman, master of the Anchor Company's steamer Ngaio—formerly the Mapourika—so that father and son maintain the daily service between Wellington and Nelson. Captain A. Wildman's son has followed the family profession and has been at sea for some time in ono of the same company's steamers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 10
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164A SEAFARING FAMILY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19957, 28 May 1928, Page 10
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