try this site .......http://www.navis.gr/miscella/ship.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Barlow" <barlow@candw.ky> To: <AUS-IMMIGRATION-SHIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:57 AM Subject: [AUS-IMM-SHIPS] oil-burning ships > My uncle tells of a claim by his father to have been on (he was an officer in the merchant navy) the first "oil-burner" brought to Australia. The first motor-ship he captained was "Hauraki" in 1923 from Australia to New Zealand and the North Pacific, so the date of the first oil-burner might have been not long before then. > >From my uncle's notes: "The Chief Engineer of his coal-burner had about 1 week of training by an oil-burner Engineer from Frisco to Vancouver to learn the ropes! The former port was one of the roughest Dad had visited & he said he always carried a revolver when going ashore!" > > So that first ship may have come from the USA or Canada. Doubtless it carried passengers, so I don't feel guilty about mentioning it on this List. Does any Lister know what ship that was, and when, and where from? > > Gordon Barlow > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >