This was one of my great grandfathers ships, G H Scales! Between 1916 - 1920 she made trips across the Pacific carrying bales of hemp northbound, returning to NZ with cargoes of cased Benzine
My father was a cabin boy on it's last voyage ,when it ran aground at Seatourn in Wellington.He couldn't really swim but got ashore and the Crewe were paid off.
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