Passenger liner, 13,330 gross, built 1910 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for Union Castle Line. Served as armed merchant cruiser in World War I. Sunk by gunfire 1925. Source of information: Union Castle Ships website (http://www.allatsea.co.za/unioncastle/edinburgh2.htm) sighted 19 June 2008
Edinburgh Castle (Ship : 1910-1945)
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Merchant navy convoy 4
Date: May 1918 - January 1919
From: Creator unknown :Photographs of merchant navy convoys
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