FORMER SEA CAPTAIN

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1935, Page 11

FORMER SEA CAPTAIN

RETTRF-MENT IN ENGLAND. NINETY TIMES ROUND WORLD. ■ Advice has been received at Auckland that Captain H. E. Greenstreet, who was formerly' commodore of the New Zealai . Shipping Company’s fleet and is now living in England, has been an invalid and confined to his bed for nearly six-years as the result of a stroke which affected his right side. Otherwise he 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 made by any other man. He has rounded the Cape of Good Hope 95 times and Cape Horn 75 times, and has passed through the Straits of Magellan 14 times. During 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 be fitted wi— refrigerating appliances. Subsequently Captain Greenstreet commanded many of the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamers and as commodore of the fleet several new ones as they were built. He has travelled approximately 2,509,000 miles at sea.