WEDDED TO THE WATER
EX-LINER CAPTAIN ON A LAKE An ex-liner captain who has sailed the Seven Seas is now commanding a tiny pleasure boat on Ullswater Lake in England. He is Captain T. H. Jackson, who, despite his retirement after 45 years of seafaring life, still feels that the water has a greater appeal than land. On one occasion Captain Jackson was away from his home at Liverpool for 20 months, during which he voyaged nearly 50,000 miles. For many years he commanded a merchant vessel operating between New York and Iquitos, in Peru, 2000 miles up the Amazon River. Now he takes the lake steamer on nine-mile trips a day from Pooley Bridge to Patterdale. "After the death of my wife when I retired a few months ago I felt I must have something to occupy my mind," Captain Jackson says. " It seems queer, now, always seeing land in sight all the time after the times I have sailed and not seen a ship or laud for days.'*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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