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COMMANDER WORSLEY was born at Akaroa, New Zealand, in 1872, and died at Claygate, Surrey, in February last. At fifteen years of age he was apprenticed in sailing ships of the New Zealand Shipping Company and made his first voyage in the square-rigged Wairoa. After his apprenticeship days, he became mate and later master of New Zealand Government schooners, among them the Tutanaki and the Countess of Ranfurly, working in the South Pacific. Afterwards he turned his attention to steam, joined the Royal Naval Reserve and had the usual training with the Grand Fleet. This was in 1908. In January 1909 he joined the Allan Line and made acquaintance during the succeeding five years with ice conditions on the Canadian route.
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CLARK, R. Commander F. A. Worsley, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N.R.. Nature 151, 553–554 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151553a0
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