977015
- TitleSignal log of the H.M.N.Z.Transport ship No.9, Hawke's Bay, 14 October 1914-2 December 1914
- Call numberMLMSS 8502
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
14 October 1914-2 December 1914 - Type of material
- Reference code977015
- Physical Description0.02 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
The Hawke's Bay was carrying the Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment and the Otago Infantry Battalion to Egypt. On the 1st November 1914 the Hawke's Bay, under Master J. C. Lidstone, assembled with the first convoy at King George's Sound, Albany Western Australia to transport the First Detachment of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces; they arrived in Alexandria, Egypt on 3rd December 1914.
The New Zealand Transport ships included HMNZT 3 Maunganui; HMNZT 4 Tahiti; HMNZT 5 Ruapehu; HMNZT 6 Orari; HMNZT 7 Limerick; HMNZT 8 Star of India; HMNZT 9 Hawkes Bay; HMNZT 10 Arawa; HMNZT 11 Athenic; HMNZT 12 Waimate.
Reference:
http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/general/TroopShips/7.detail?Ordinal=1&c_transport_search=%22hmnzt+9%22&c_transport_logic=or (accessed 25 May 2012)
http://www.wargraves.co.nz/EmbarkationRolls/ship%20voyage/9.htm (accessed 25 May 2012) - Scope and ContentThis is the handwritten signal log that recorded orders and "conversations" between ships of the First Detachment of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces. The entries are mainly in pencil, with a few written in ink.
- Copying ConditionsCopyright status:: In copyright
Copyright status:: Please acknowledge - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy copyright holder - General note
State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I diaries
Digital order no:Album ID : 1063961 - Signatures / Inscriptions
Inscribed in ink on first page: "All signals made and received are to be entered in this book in a clean legible hand, and the book is to be kept clean. Frd. G. Cooper Lieut RNR, Naval Transport Officer". - Creator/Author/Artist
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