MAB note: To the extent that this article says that Jennings spent two and a half years on the Hong Kong-San Francisco route, it's wrong. He only took Oceanic I on her first two transpacific roundtrips in 1875, and then returned to the North Atlantic.
The Evening Post, Wellington, 16 November 1894
Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site,
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home
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Captain J. W. Jennings, late of the Gothic, having retired from active
duty, intends spending the remainder of his days in well-earned retirement,
and the following particulars of his career may be of interest:---Captain
Jennings is the senior commander in the British merchant service. His
record is a splendid and unique one, being absolutely free from accident,
though it covers a period of 64 years at sea. He first shipped in 1830, and
has commanded several ships in the China, East India, and Australian
trades---the Julia, Philip Dean, Surthomley, Contest---his last sailing ship
being the well-known Dhuleep Singh, in the fleet of Messrs. Ismay,
Tomlinson, and Co., Liverpool. From 1871 to 1894 he commanded the following
White Star liners---Asiatic, Gaelic, Oceanic, Baltic, Celtic, Adriatic,
Doric, and last of all the splendid vessel now in port, the s.s. Gothic---a
record of 10 years on the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York, 10 1/2 years
in the trade from London to New Zealand, and the other two and a-half years
in the Pacific, Brazil, China, Japan, and San Francisco lines.
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The Evening Post, Wellington, 16 November 1894
Retrieved from the National Library of New Zealand web site,
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home
[Untitled]
---
Captain J. W. Jennings, late of the Gothic, having retired from active
duty, intends spending the remainder of his days in well-earned retirement,
and the following particulars of his career may be of interest:---Captain
Jennings is the senior commander in the British merchant service. His
record is a splendid and unique one, being absolutely free from accident,
though it covers a period of 64 years at sea. He first shipped in 1830, and
has commanded several ships in the China, East India, and Australian
trades---the Julia, Philip Dean, Surthomley, Contest---his last sailing ship
being the well-known Dhuleep Singh, in the fleet of Messrs. Ismay,
Tomlinson, and Co., Liverpool. From 1871 to 1894 he commanded the following
White Star liners---Asiatic, Gaelic, Oceanic, Baltic, Celtic, Adriatic,
Doric, and last of all the splendid vessel now in port, the s.s. Gothic---a
record of 10 years on the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York, 10 1/2 years
in the trade from London to New Zealand, and the other two and a-half years
in the Pacific, Brazil, China, Japan, and San Francisco lines.
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