Person Profile

Winchester, J.R.

1847–

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Biography

He went to sea at a very young age (about 1860). (He was qualified as a Master Mariner).

He was Master of the Thermopylae in 1889 in the tea trade from Japan to the Pacific coast.

References

Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)

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