HMT Mamari
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | HMT Mamari |
| Builder/Built | 1904 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Type | passenger / refrigerated cargo ship |
| Displacement | 6,689 tons tons |
| Speed | 13 knots |
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Remarks
Built for the Shaw Savill & Albion Line. Used on the New Zealand to London route, and later Antwerp to New York. Sold to Bernstein Red Star Line, Hamburg in 1928 and renamed Gerolstein. Later names were Consul (1939)and Consul Horn (1939)when owned by Horn HC - Dampfschiffs - Rhederal Horn - Fruchtdampfer AG of Lubeck. Sunk by mine of the coast of the Netherlands (NE of Borkum) on 20 Jul 1942, and lies in 14m of water.
Soldiers carried
Liverpool to Fremantle 21 December 1918 - 27 January 1919
Extracts from the diary of Melvin James Sawtell Harrigan
Extracted from a Facebook page Melvin James Sawtell Harrigan, maintained by James McQualter, a grandson, in honour of his memory. Melvin shared this journey with Reg Cockshott and Fred Chester. 150 Cpl Mechanic MJS Harrigan originally enlisted with the Light Horse, serving with the 1st and 12th Regiments before in late 1916 seeking a transfer to the newly formed Australian Flying Corps. He served with the 2nd Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps as a member of their ground staff in France. Many of the men coming home would have had similar experiences before, during and at the conclusion of their voyages.
21 December Up at 1am this morning had breakfast and after roll call the first mob of 450 got away per hoof for Warminster. Our party was very lucky in having a fine night to march out. The “Saxon” and “Nestor” mob marched out in pouring rain. We kicked up a big noise enroute to the station singing and yelling all the way. The YMCA shouted us tea and biscuits. After an hours wait, our train arrived and we boarded amidst a big hubbub. We went via Swindon, Crewe and Birmingham to Liverpool. Ran right on to the boat. A band played us off. We pulled out to midstream to await for some firemen.
22 December Went to bed in hammocks early last night. The morning broke dirty and foggy. Our firemen came along early so at 1.30pm we set off for home. We passed a big wreck just outside of a battleship that had been torpedoed. We soon ran into rough weather. We had a rough spin all night.
23 December We passed the Isle of Ogman and Welsh coast last night and pitched and tossed all day.