No favours for the owners son

This story appeared in a series of articles by Forrest Frank in 1920 in the Scarborough Daily Post - This story came from Captain Dresser

We sailed in February from Glasgow to Rosario, Robson making the voyage as second mate, after the custom of the family. Mr T.E. Hick, who always met the ship on return home, once made a similar voyage in one of his father's ships, then commanded by Captain Avery Hill, who was a very smart, punctilious officer, but one rather fond of uneccessary work to do. Mr Hick probably gave some sign of discontent at this, but was met with the rebuke which he never forgot or failed to appreciate: "If you are the owner's son ashore, you are second mate of this ship, which I command, and don't forget it"


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