UNION COMPANY'S PROPOSED TRAILING SHIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2829, 3 June 1908, Page 14

UNION COMPANY'S PROPOSED TRAILING SHIP.

The Union Company's recently-acquired sailing ship Dartford! is to leave Sydney almost immediately for Lyttelton -with a cargo of coal. Captain Hooper, formerly chief officer of the Hawera, went over from Tasmania to take command of the ship, wliich v should arrive at her destination in about a couple of weeks. During the course of a brief chat about the vessel on the 19th, Sir James Mills in» formed a Times representative that nothing definite had yet been decided upon in regard to the proposal to utilise tfhe vessel as a training ship. Tho company had pur. chased her for use as a coal hulk in the first place, but she was found to be far too* good a vessel to be relegated to such a humble occupation, and it then occurred to Sir James that the vessel would serve to fulfil the part of a training ship, end thus embody an idea which he nad formed many years ago upon the subject. However, that is as far as the matter has got as yet, >nd Sir Jiones Mills carefully explained that up to the present the ship Dartford simply embodied an idea, and the proposal to transform her into a training ship would have to receive matura deliberation before being carried into effect, and several week* were likely to elapeo before the company's director* arrived at a conclusion one way or the other. On being reminded of the large amount of public interest which had been evinced 1 concerning the project, Sir James Mills remarked that he bad been ampjjs satisfied upon that point, from the fact that tho company had already received about 20 applications from parents who were anxious to apprentice their sons, and in eeveral instances premiums had been offered for the privilege. It will thus be seen that in the event of the Dartford being commissioned aa a training ship, under the familiar house flag of the Union Company, there will be no difficulty whatever in obtaining a full complement of cadets- for her initial voyage m that capacity.

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