MacNamara diary, 19 August 1916-29 May 1919 / John Patrick MacNamara - Page 16
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examine our quarters. Perhaps it is time I gave some idea of the ship was to be our home for the next five weeks & on which we had a really good time. The RMS "Mooltan" for that was her name was a P&O mail boat of 10,500 tons displacement. She had none of the brightly painted upper works that characterized these boats in pre war days, but from the top of her masts to the waterline everything was of a dull grey colour like a warship is painted. Many & many a time I had seen this ship lying at Circular Quay when I was at St. Josephs but little did I think in those days that I was to leave australia in her to go to the greatest war that has ever been in the history of the world. To most of us who had never previously been on a big ship she seemed like a huge floating