Merchant navy convoy 4

Date
May 1918 - January 1919
Reference
PA1-o-1394
Description

Album of photographs taken aboard Maunganui on following voyages:

Port Chalmers to Liverpool, England. Left Port Chalmers 2 May 1918, called at Wellington (3-9 May 1918), Balboa (28 May 1918), Panama Canal and Colon (29-30 May 1918), Norfolk VA (4-10 June 1918), New York (11-12 June 1918), arrived Liverpool 24 July 1918.

Three Transatlantic crossings between Liverpool, Glasgow, and New York, August-November 1918.

Liverpool, England, to Port Chalmers, with returned New Zealand soldiers. Left Liverpool 2 December 1918, called at Colon (18-19 December 1918), Panama Canal and Balboa (19 December 1918), Auckland (9 January 1919), Wellington (11-15 January 1919), arrived Port Chalmers 16 January 1919.

Includes views of Panama Canal locks and gates, ferries at Norfolk VA, United States and British warships, soldiers playing two-up on the ship returning home, and ferries in Auckland Harbour.

Source of title - Title supplied by Library

Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Physical Description: Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm

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Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys
Format
1 album(s) Album(s), Photographs, Gelatin silver prints, Green morrocco-bound album, 21 x 26 cm
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