MUCH-TRAVELLED BABY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17951, 1 December 1932, Page 11

MUCH-TRAVELLED BABY

SEA CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTER HOME ON BOARD SHIP SYDNEY, Nov. 24. Besides carrying one of the largest cargoes of petroleum that lias reached Australia, the Norwegian tanker Ostav has brought the captain's young wife and her daughter, aged two. ' Siejgjie Elizabeth Hansen is a world traveller. In two years she has made three visits to Australia, a trip from Shanghai to Hamburg by the trans-Siberian railway, and many voyages to the Black Sea. A ship is her home ; the bridge, the forecastle. the engine room, are her playgrounds. the after hatch her backyard. And .she is supremely happy. Each day, at noon, she visits the bridge. And there she stays until eight hells rings the end of the second officer’s watch. During those hours she tilts 'sextants, examines the clock ticking •out Greenwich time, and takes an intense interest in the boy at the wheel. Her playmates are her mother, a canary, -’ml a. big brown bear, acquired iit Singapore. “No; I am never lonely,” said Airs, k Hausen. “There is Siegue to look after, -

her clothes to make, arid jumpers to knit for the children at home. We have our own little flat on the Ostav, quite apart from the officers? cabins. Unlike British ships, Norwegian captains have their meals by themselves, with their wives only, if they happen to be on board.”