Use the google search engine and type in first oil burning ship to? brings up some great interesting articles.......and then you can make the choice of which ship it was good hunting coal burners were a great interest also ----- 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 >