Old-Time Skipper Passes On
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CAPTAIN JOHN McINNES, one-time master of various vessels of the Burns Philp fleet, died in Royal Brisbane Hospital on April 24. He was 88.
He was at one time master of the MV Malabar, and later either master, or relieving master, of the steamships Marella, Mataram, Mindini, Matunga, Marsina and Melusia.
Captain Mclnnes joined Burns Philp about 1910, and resigned in 1926 to try his luck on the Morobe Goldfields. Having little success, he retired to Western Australia, and later to Brisbane.
Captain Mclnnes is seen in this old photograph of Burns Philp skippers taken about 1916-17. He is seated on the extreme left in the front row.
All the other skippers are now dead except Captain G. E. Williams (second from right in back row) who, at 83, lives at Chatswood, Sydney.
Those pictured are: Top row (standing, from the left): Captains D. J. Williams, S. Rothery, H. W. Wherall, N. E. Smith, G. E. Williams and G. I. Griffiths; bottom row (seated, from left): Captains J.
Mclnnes, E. J. Hillman, W. Voy, S. Mortimer and M. Donaldson.