parental counsel he sailed away on a clipper and thenceforward remained true to his frst love, Energy and ambition made him climb to the captain's bridge, later to own a pilot vessel of his own plied be= tween the mouth of the Yangtze and Shanghai, Piloting in those days Was a thrilling and gruelling race when a deep sea vessel was sighted. Each pilot' was an independent worker, owning his own schooner, the first pilot boarding the ship out: side Woosung getting the job, and was no unusual incident for a pilot vessel to be blown out to sea in dirty weather even as far as Foochow with food and water running short. Captain Gundry was appointed special pilot to the Blue Funnel Nine and was one of the first to joi the Pilots Association when it was started, from which he retired in 1022, Captain Gundry hi left his own. memorial to the seamen of the China Coast: one by which his nam will be known to a thousand who never met the man himself. The and Nautical Manual." "A lingering urge to. write was, perhaps, a heritage of nis dls-Ungulshed father, or a leap back to the associations of his early age. A. slim "volume of nautical lore at its birth, the 'Tide Book has grown for mote' than thirty" years with the opening of new harbours and ports, Ut now, a volume of close on Ave hundred' pages, it predicts dally high water at Bangkok Bar to time signals Vladivostok "More a hobby than business, the compilation of the 'Dido' Book has entailed a" vast amount of work in. correspondence and computation; "the times and Range, for instance, of high water Woosting Bar and Tungsha Lightship Were always accurately. worked out "the author himself. Mariners Tay be glad to know Chat it will still tonltinue to Be published.
"To. those who knew Captain Gundry, news of his death wilt come personal loss. Competent, kind-nee rather than speech, his long even-tempered, given. to
rs at sea begot a retiring disposi~ tion" which made ib trendbhip 9 are and genuine pleasure,
in England at the time Most of his farlly were, with, his widow, Mrs. Alice C. A. Gundry: 2 daughter, Mrs, Gladys Everest; and two. sons, Mr," George 8. Gundry, MICE, @ civil engineer, and Mr-Francis' RL. Gundry, C. A. He leaves a daughter in Shanghai, Mr: Edith Morgan, ud two sisters, Mrs. Macbaughlin and. Mrs, Evans.
The "North-China " Dally News with whom the Gundry family has been connected for three generations, Fecord. their persond loss at the passing of Capiain Gundry and their Qeep "sympathy. with hig. surviving
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