Gulliver

#2... Vernon going back all those years and just come across that newspaper report of the apprentice overboard and putting 2 and 2 together and getting 4 unlike the newspapers who always seem to grab the stick by the wrong end. Newspaper statement says he went over the side about 8 pm. As he was on my watch the 12 to 4 , I find it hard to beleive he wasn't reported missing earlier than what I found him missing about 0100 hrs on the middle watch, at the best it would have been his farmer and when didn't show for his lookout is when he was conspicuous by his absence. I also stated that he was said to have swam to a reef just outside of Cairns which was marked by a beacon to mark the entrance to the Flinders Passage. Methinks as Donald would say the news report leaves a lot to be desired as far as the truthful facts are concerned. Cheers JWS.

Thank you for the thumbs up Gulliver always nice to get a bit of uplift ! LOL
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i was on rosewood maiden voyage las spezia .skipper was rowland went to greece hampton roads ,new orleans, baton rouge back to italy

She finished up sold in La Spezia if memory correct. Rowland stirs memorys in name only as can’t remember him otherwise. Jacotine was master when handed over to the Greeks . I was mate there. The new master came on board and like most handovers I told him all the little tricks the ship had . Unfortuanetley he was also part of new owners and had his share of the ship the Greek way. So my good intentions of helping him turned sour when he insisted on knocking the price back by a substantial amount , the owners I worked for wanted to know how he knew about the minor faults, needless to say I stayed mum. He offered me a job and should have took it the way British shipping turned out. The master who was stabbed previous to the murders was Hort. Cheers JS I might be getting mixed up with the Italian ports if not La Spezia was Genoa or Savona. JS