OBITUARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21515, 12 June 1933, Page 11

OBITUARY

CAPTAIN F. L. VICKERMAN WELL-KNOWN MASTER MARINER [by telegraph OWN* correspondent] KELSON, Saturday Tlio death occurred at his home at Pangatotara early this morning of Captain Frank Lobourne Vickerman, who for nearly 50 years was master of vessels of the Anchor Shipping Company. Captain Vickerman was born 82 years ago yesterday in the Upper Wairau Valley. His parents settled in Nelson, where his father, the late Dr. Vicker- | man, who was prominent among early i settlers, built a whare on the site of j which Nelson College now stands, j As a boy Captain Vickerman was in | the Court when the deatli sentence was j passed on Burgess and his two mates, ! the bushrangers who made themselves I notorious in the early days of the gold- ! fields on the West Coast. Sullivan, their mate, who turned Queen's evidence, was ill in Dr. Vickerman's hospital during the trial, and Captain Vickerman i always remembered how insistent the inspector of police was in his injunction to Dr. Vickerman to "keep him alive" until the trial was over. Captain Vickerman commenced his sea-going career in 1867 on the sailing vessel Cissy with two trips round the world, and after further experience gained his master's ticket in England. He worked his passage to New Zealand before the mast, and in 1879 joined the Anchor Company as second mate of the Charles Edward. When Captain Vickerman brought his ship the Titoki into Nelson for the last time in December, 1926, he was able to step ashore with the knowledge that no mishap had occurred under his command. Captain Vickerman's first command was the | Murray, and after her he successively 1 commanded the Waverley, the KenI ned}', the Alexander, the Regulus and i finally the Titoki. He was a mariner | of whom it was said that he "knew ] every lump of the coastline and where most of them were under the water." j For the past seven years Captain Vickerman lias lived in retirement at Pangatotara, and he was in fairly good health until quite recently. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters, Messrs. Francis Vickerman, of Wellington, and Arthur Vickerman, of Motueka, Mrs. Knowles, of Pangatotara, and Miss Beatrice Vickerman, who is at present visiting England. MR. JOSEPH BARKLEY [from our own correspondent"! HAMILTON, Sunday The death occurred last week of Mr. Joseph Barkley, of 18 O'Neill Street, Hamilton, at an advanced ago. Mr. Barkley was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and, as a young man, went to America. Two years later he came to New Zealand, and engaged in business at Westport. He married Miss Janet Mary Hayes in Dunedin. Mr. Barkley was engaged in farming at Manurewa, Matangi and Walton, and came to live in Hamilton four years ago. Mrs. Barkley predeceased him three years ago. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. R. F. Haycock, of Mauku, and Miss L. C. Barkley, of Hamilton, and threo grandchildren.