'Last Post' Troopship Journal
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Eight-page journal written and published ‘for the first and last time...somewhere at sea' aboard the S.S. Rotorua. The journal incorporates three small publications entitled 'P.U.'s Chronicle', 'Cupid's Courier' and the 'Shark's Gazette'.
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Kaye Stokes
said Kaye Stokes
I am researching the voyage that my mother [Catherine Lillian Johnson, 6] and her brother, [Jack ,8] made with their mother on the S S Rotorua in 1916. They went across the Atlantic and had to put in to Newport News due to German U boats.Then to Jamaica through the Panama Canal north up to Vancouver, South to Tahiti and Rarotonga then onto Auckland. She was 6 years old and could recall going through the Canal as her brother threw her beloved doll over board. The recuperating soldiers on board had a whip around and bought her another one. A small ?French one with a china head etc.?Where would that have been? She also spoke of the sick men lying around and that it was a very happy trip. Is there anything written about this voyage?
Also, why were there sevral emigrating families on this ? troopship or was it in fact just a routine voyage for the S.S.ROTORUA..
I would appreciate any information. Thank you.
Kaye Stokes ex Feilding, Picton, Nelson, Christchurch, Akaroa, New Zealand now living in Melbourne ,Australia.