FORMER SEA CAPTAIN
RETIREMENT IN ENGLAND f NINETY TIMES ROUND WORLD, Advice has been received in Auckland that Captain H. 10. Greenstreet, who was formerly commodore of the. New Zealand Shipping Company's fleetund is now living in England, has beer, an invalid and confined to his bed for, nearly six years as the result of stroke which aifected his right side, Otherwise ho is in very good health. Captain Greenstreet, who is now 84 years of age, has made 90 complete voyages round the world, which is believed to be more than have been mad? by any otliei man. He has rounded the Cape of Good Hope 95 times and Cape Horn 75 times, find has passed through tho Straits of Magellan 14 times. Dunini? his whole career at sea he never had a serious mishap and was never off duty for a single day at sea owing to illness. After serving on a number of sailing ships trading to Australia and New Zealand and the Far East, in 1881 Captain Greenstreet was appointed master of the barque Mataura, the first ship to bo fitted with refrigerating appli-. ances. Subsequently Captain Greenstreet commanded many of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamersarid as commodore of the fleet several new ones as they were built. He has travelled approximately 2,500,000 mile» at sea. . i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22205, 4 September 1935, Page 12
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