He was qualified as a Marine Engineer.
He served his apprenticeship in the Young Brothers shops.
He joined the blockade runner Lord Clyde.
He was Second Engineer in the cable-layer Caroline.
He was engineer on the Alida and Zephyr. Chief Engineer on the Isabel in Victoria for six years and then on the Beaver, Grappler, Reliance.
He worked on Kootenay Lake and as Engineer on the Illecillawaet, which he left in 1894.
Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
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