Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 18
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To recapitulate:-
As you know we left Sydney with a stiff southerly blowing. That was the only rough day. The rest of the trip was a veritable pleasure jaunt. The Pacific Antarctic & Indian Oceans behaved like perfect ladies & the sea was like unto the proverbial mill pond.
Amongst the few who got ashore at Albany was yours truly. I had a very pleasant day though it required catlike agility to climb up & down the ships ladders when the Steam tug was almost turning somersaults Albany harbour (or King Georges Sound) was far rougher than any part of the ocean. And the good folk of Albany were about the deadest, stupidest, slowest crowd that ever existed. Not a sign of welcome, not a single boat came out even with newspapers for the men who had not heard a word of news since leaving sunny New South Wales.
The voyage across the Indian Ocean was calm & peaceful, though very warm in the vicinity of the Equator.
We steamed right to within a days sail of Colombo & then to our annoyance three of the ships including ours were suddenly detached as a special convoy to