CAPTAIN JAMES FOX.
This photograph was lent by Captain A. W. Owles, who first shipped with Captain Fox in 1862 or 1833, trading to Calcutta and other places. Captain Fox was in the Forfarshire, Charlotte, Gladstone, Scimitar (afterwards Rangitikei) and Waimate. Then Captain Fox brought out the paddle steamer Lyttelton for the Lyttelton Harbour Board, in 1878. She was only a vessel of 3S tons, and had to call at many ports for coal. She left Liverpool on August 27, 1878, and called at Gibraltar on September 4, Port Said on September 16, Aden on September 24, Pont de Galli on October 4, Singapore on October 16. Thursday Island on October 31, Cooktown on November 5, Brisbane on November 13. She arrived at Lyttelton on November 21. There was a crew of fourteen, of whom the only survivors are Captain Owles and Captain J. Harris, of Lyttelton. The old P.S. Lyttelton is said to be hauling timber in the North of Auckland to-day.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 23 (Supplement)
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