Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 12
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[Page 12]
S.H. is in New Britain – in the centre of the German archipelago & Riboult is its town & now we are steaming at 8 knots per hour & we are but 400 miles off -
We are on an even Keel & all joly once amp; again but she's a cranky, rusty old tub - always something going wrong with her - The Cook's mate says she frightens the engineers & firemen - Fine weather she's all right but when she gets her tail out & races one wonders how things hold together -
We are off the S.E. of N. Guinea & going thro a whole lot of islands – mostly wooded but not the cocoa nut palm evidently - N.G. went S. E. & there sank & these islands are the tops & knobs of high land or else coral islands - A small, white bellied stormy Petrel & flying fish are the sole life - I saw a Frigate or it might be a Bosun bird with the long tail feathers this morning -
Friday - Sept 11 - 14 Raboul
We all put in a very good day - we met the Fleet - Australia with Admiral Patey - Cruisers Sydney & Melbourne - The Berrima with her mob of soldiers & The Parramatta - a destroyer - We got to Simpson Haven & as the Protector & Upolu steamed in – the