Shiplovers’ Annual
p. 117 · Read in the full issue
The “Annual Dog Watch”, the official publication of the Shiplovers Societies of Australia, is out foi 1959. This issue makes the 16th in line.
The 1959 model contains the usual collection of stories about old and new ships—and one about the 40,000 tons Orient liner “Oriana”, which is not even launched yet. The ship lovers’ love seems to veer off towards the classic days of wooden ships and iron men and leave the modern strictly for contrast, and “Dog Watch” reflects this attitude.
“PlM’s” friend, Captain Fred Klebingat, contributes an interest ing item on a pre-World War I ad venture of the barquentine “S.N.
Castle” in the Marquesas. There is an article on coolie migration (from India to Fiji, West Indies and Mauritius) in the days of sail; and an account of the wreck of the “Dundonald” in 1907 on one of the remote southern outliers of New Zealand—the Auckland Islands.
The “Dog Watch No. 16” can he ordered from the Shiplovers ’ Society of Victoria, GPO Box 1169 K, GPO.
Melbourne, for 4/6, plus 6d postage.