Ship

Famous Old Sailing

Service Under Many Names

HHE 2,300-tons, 60-years-old Portu- L guese vessel Foz do Douro is present in Australasian waters, dis larging cork from Portugal. Her esent name means little to shipping :ople here; but, as one of the oldest lips on the world’s ocean lanes she is had a most interesting history, osely associated with the Pacific.

Built in Glasgow in 1892 as a eel four-masted barque, she was unched as the Hawaiian Islands id, engaged in the Hawaiian sugar ade, she flew the flag of the rmer Hawaiian Republic. She be me well-known on both coasts of e States.

Then, about 1910, she was ac lired by the Alaska Packers ssociation and entered its famous d numerous sailing fleet as the Star Greenland. For 20 years she ran Alaska and the Aleutians in the Imon-fishing trade. During this ne she made a record passage from n Francisco to Unalaska, 2,400 les, in 7 days, at an average speed 15 knots.

When the Alaska Packers fleet was ibanded in 1930, Star of Greenland is purchased by Rydberg Associa •n of Sweden for use as a training ip for seamen. The San Francisco iterfront declared a holiday when is proud survivor of sailing-ship ys sailed out of that port for the it time.

In her new life, renamed Abraham ’dberg, she ran in the Australian am trade to Europe, until just he re World War 11. Her present Ttuguese owners purchased her in American port in 1943 and, for time, she engaged in the Atlantic astal trade between North and uth America.

In 1946 she was fitted with twin )t°rs and she now has a loaded Jed of 10 knots under power.

She survived the war; but her past •ry has gone, for most of her sail 5 been stripped from her, although 5 stll l carries a little under favour e winds. She is likely to be seen the Pacific later this year. \ reader sought the address of □re Sherwin, who gave dis guished service in New Guinea in rtime. He is now in Australia. : address is: The Rev. V. H. Sher i. The Rectory, Murray Bridge, ith Australia.