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759, Euston Street,
LIVERPOOL,
21st March, 1896.
_Swan_, 375 tons. Captain R. Evans.
_Sparrow_, 461 tons. Captain James Evans.
s.s. _Starling_, 880 tons. Captain Enoch Shaw.
s.s. _Parakeet_, 2,100 tons. Captain Murray.
s.s. Building, 3,500 tons. Captain O. Kettle.
s.s. Building, 3,500 tons. Captain ...
s.s. Building, 4,000 tons. Captain ...
"The superb vessels of the Bird Line!"
_Dear Captain Kettle,--
Having noted from your cables and reports you are making a
good thing for us out of tramping the "Parakeet," we have
pleasure in transferring you to our new boat, which is now
building on the Clyde. She will be 3,500 tons, and we may
take out passenger certificate, she being constructed on that
specification. Your pay will be L21 (twenty-one pound) per
month, with 2-1/2 per cent. commission as before. But for the
present, till this new boat is finished, we want you to give
over command of the "Parakeet" to Murray, and take on a new
job. Our Mr. Alexander Bird has recently bought the wreck of
the s.s. "Grecian," and we are sending out a steamer with
divers and full equipment to get the salvage.
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