Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 37
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[Page 37]
on shore again provisionally and at 1 PM the two German wireless operators were escorted off to the ship as prisoners of war, together with all their personal property and placed under guard, - and so our little job on our own being completed we weighed anchor at 1.30 PM and shaped our course for Rabaul, New Guinea, a distance of about 1020 miles there to assist in the conquest of German New Guinea (Mecklensburg)
Sep 9th and 10th [1914] nothing unusual happened the weather was still beautifully fine and breezy, a heavy swell running and we were steaming East.
Sep 12th at 9 AM we arrive off Rabaul German New Guinea, - the "Australia" was laying off Herbertshoe and the whole fleet consisting of the "Australia" "Melbourne" "Encounter" "Protection" 3 Colliers an oiltank, provision & storeship, two submarines A.E.1. and A.E.2. all steamed into Rabaul at 11 A.M. – we the "Melbourne"
[AE1 and AE2 were the first submarines in the Australian navy]