“ALL OFFICER” CREW
MOTOR SHIP PORT GISBORNE. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 12. Officers in the British Mercantile Marine do not as a rule reel hawsers, scrub the decks, batten down hatches and do other jobs that are the lot of seamen, but they do all these things on board the Commonwealth and Dominion Line motor ship Port Gisborne which arrived at Auckland from London this afternoon. Every one of the 18 deck hands on the motor ship is a certificated officer who has shipped as a sailor for want of employment on the bridge of any other ship. The fact that the Port Gisborne carries an “all officer, crew on deck is a striking illustration of the wholesale unemployment that exists among seafaring men who are competent to navigate ships in any part of the world. “A sailor’s job is better than no job at all in these hard times is the argument they work on, ana they probably comfort themselves with the knowledge that other fellow officers who have made a voyage or so as an A.B. are now back on the bridge again either with the same company or with some other.
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Southland Times, Issue 21836, 13 October 1932, Page 5
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