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