The Register
Wednesday Evening, September 28, 1938
Captain McBride Named Chief Of Southern Fleet
Harborville Born Ship-Master Appointed United Fruit Commodore.
(From New Orleans paper)
Captain George A. McBride, 51-year-old veteran of 35 years at sea and 28
years in the service of the United Fruit Company, has been appointed
commodore of the company's Southern fleet and master of the flagship
Ulua operating between New Orleans and the tropics.
Captain McBride succeeds Captain William M. Rose, who, after 42 years in
the company's service, resigned to accept appointment by the United
States maritime commission to take charge of seamen's training schools
which the commission plans to establish in several parts of the United
States within a few months.
He is a native of Nova Scotia, where he began his nautical career on a
sailing vessel. He later became an officer. His father, Captain Samuel
McBride, was a Nova Scotian sailing master.
Captain McBride in 1915 was appointed to command the company's S.S.
Marowijine, which that same year, on the voyage after Captain McBride
left her to be transferred to a new command, was lost with her entire
crew and some 45 passengers.
In June, 1934, while master of the S. S. Zacapa, Captain McBride rescued
a lifeboat with 16 seamen, including the master of the Norwegian
freighter Knut Hamsum, who had abandoned the vessel when she burned in
the Caribbean.
Several years ago off the Yucatan coast Captain McBride, as master of
the Zacapa, picked up 17 Cuban fishermen whose fishing schooner had
become dismasted during rough weather.
Go To Sea, Young Men
During the past two and a half years Captain McBride has been master of
the S. S. Santa Marta. He will take command of the Ulua Saturday when
she will sail for Havana and Central America.
My advice to young men coming
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along would be to take to the sea if they are willing to work hard,?
Captain McBride said. The new seamen's training schools and ships
which Captain Rose will have charge of will help out a lot to improve
the American merchant marine.?
Between voyages Captain McBride resides at 2335 Audubon Street with his
wife and an only daughter, Miss Marjorie McBride. An only son, Samuel
N. McBride, is a newspaper reporter in Franklin, N. C.
(Capt. McBride is a native of Harborville, a son of the late Capt.
Samuel McBride of that village and brother of Mrs. D. Boyd Parker of
Berwick. Ed.)