["Shipping News", The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Monday 19 October 1908, page 6]
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The Waratah is to leave London on her maiden trip for Australia on November 6 when she will be commanded by Captain J. E. Ilbery, commodore of the Blue Anchor fleet, who has been in the service of Messrs. H. Lund & Sons for the past 50 years, during about 28 years of which he has been their senior commander.
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