Popular Officer on the China Coast Leaving Another popular affeer became lost to the China Coast on Sunday when Captain F. S. Adey, wharf manager of Holts Wharf, left' on board the s. Sarpedon for England, where he is to retire with his wife and family. As he himself put it in an interview on Thursday, "We are rebring to Birkenhead for a start, and will drop anchor there for a while and look around for permanent mooring afterwards."
Captain Adey first went to August 18, 1896, in the days of "wind and sail." ' He first came out to China {in 1808, when he arrived in Hongkong on board the full-rigged ship Vols, Belonging to Macdermot Greenshields, of Liverpool. By an odd coincidence, the offices. of this company at home were next door to those of Alfred Holt & Ca, he joined the Blue Funnel Line in 1909, and has been with them ever since.
He arrived in Shanghai in 1919, when he took over the post of assistant wharf manager of Holt's 'Wharf, and held this past until 1928, when he was promoted wharf manager. During" this time, Keeping with the policy of' the capt. ¥. 8. Adey company, he was interchanged with Hongkong several. times, but, generally speaking, Shanghai has deen his home. His two young sons. are pupils of the Cathedral School for Boys, and are sailing for England with him. He has not yet decided where to put them to school there, as that will, in a large measure, depend fon where he and Mrs. Adey_ settle in the country somewhere; I hate towns."
Service at Sea He was a captain at sea all through the war, on both the North Atlantic and China runs; his ships on tiiest runs Included the Bellerophon and the Ajax, respectively. "He was in com: mand of the next ship in line to the Tuscania, when that ship had the misfortune to be torpedoed off the North coast of Ireland, but, generally speaking, he had "good luck all through the piece" in 1927, when he was in Hongkong, he was presented with the MHE.
He repudiated any suggestion that his if at sea hod been at adventurous, and proved extremely reticent when asked to draw upon his fund of reminiscences for the benefit of the interviewer. Not unexpectedly, however, he was full of his plans for his retirement, which are purposely. vague, as he wants to "look around obit Ast."
He was born in Bristol, but does not Intend to go back to that city, as he doubts if there ig anyone there. whom he will remember. He intends to settle somewhere in "the country, probably in. the north of England," but, until he has got his bearings oes not intend to commit himself.
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