HMS Herald in Farm Cove Sydney 1924

Real photo post card - printed on back.
Not posted. Aldersley photo

Good condition
HMS Herald was a 24-class minesweeping sloop launched as Merry Hampton in 1918, renamed in 1923 and converted to a survey ship. She was scuttled in 1942 at Seletar, raised by the Japanese, renamed Heiyo, and sunk by a mine in 1944

Mine Sweeper HMS Mallow at Lyttleton

Real photo post card - not stamped on back.
Not posted. J Dickie

Has non-inked impressed message at top about returned soldiers wanting work - advise the repatriation dept.

Ink correction to vessel name

? or is the location Wellington - the Lyttleton ferry berth? That is what the sign on the building at the right says.

British Flower Class corvette Mallow (later transferred to Yugoslavia as Nada)

Painters at work over side.

R.M.S. Remuera
Real Photo
R.M.S. Remuera, London - New Zealand Service written on bottom of card.

Postcard size.
Unused.

RMS Corinthic

Vessel Name: CORINTHIC
Vessel ID: 1115296
Official No: 115296
Vessel Type: Steamship
Tonnage: 12,231 gross
Built: 1902
Builder: Harland & Wolff
She remained in service throughout World War I (from 1917 to 1919, under the Liner Requisition Scheme), but her third class accommodations were used for carrying troops rather than passengers. When she returned to White Star/Shaw, Savill service in 1920, her route was changed, so that she now utilized the Panama Canal in both directions. (Prior to the war, the White Star/SSA joint service had run via Cape Town outbound from England and via the Cape of Good Hope and Rio inbound.)

In 1929, Corinthic was converted to a cabin/third configuration. But just two years later, in August 1931, Corinthic made her final voyage. Four months after that, she was on her way to the shipbreakers, a victim of the worldwide economic depression.

R.M.S. Manuka

Hand coloured real photo postcard of RMS Manuka.

SS Arahura Leaving Nelson

Real photo post card - stamped on back. Good condition. Not posted. F N Jones Nelson.

Vessel Name: ARAHURA
Vessel ID: 1117587
Official No: 117587
Vessel Type: Passenger ship
Tonnage: 1,596 gross
Owner: Union Steam Ship Company
Entered Fleet: 1905
Left Fleet: 1925
Built: 1905
Builder: Wm. Denny & Bros., Dumbarton
Engine: Steam twin screw triple expansion.
Date of Fate: 24 Jan 1952
Type of Fate: Scuttled
Region of Fate: Cook Strait
Vessel Abstract: Twin screw steamer but also schooner rigged. Passenger accommodation for 201. 1925 left Union Company fleet. Dismantled and sunk in Cook Strait 24 Jan 1952 after being used as a target for RNZAF planes.

SS Ceramic

Real photo post card - unstamped on back. Good condition. Not posted.

The S.S Ceramic

The S.S. Ceramic was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1913. She was launched for the White Star Lines Australian Service in December 1912, and for years she was the largest ship sailing between Europe and Australia.

In 1914 she was taken over for Trooping, and in May 1916 had a narrow escape from a torpedo attack in the Mediterranean. She had 2,500 troops on board.

On June 9th, 1917, she had another narrow escape from a torpedo attack in the English Channel, and on July 21st the same year, she was chased by a surfaced submarine, but out-distanced the enemy.

After the end of WWI, she went back into service as a passenger ship, sailing from Liverpool to Sydney. With the formation of the Cunard-White Star Line, Shaw, Saville and Albion acquired the Australian assets, which included "Ceramic". "Ceramic" remained on the Australia via the Cape service.

In 1939, she was requisitioned once again for Trooping duties out of Australia, but she continued carrying passengers.

On November 23rd, 1942, S.S. Ceramic left Liverpool, commanded by Captain Elford, on what was to be her last voyage. She had on board 196 military/naval personnel, Nurses of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service and 152 fare paying passengers in 1st Class, included among this number 12 children.

Only one of the passengers was to survive.

Originally sailing in convoy from Liverpool, on the 2nd or 3rd December Ceramic detached from this convoy and began sailing independently as routed. Nothing of incident happened until 8pm on the 6th December, when she was hit by a torpedo fired from the U 515, under the command of Korvettenkapitan Werne Henke, (1909-44)

SS Pateena Leaving Nelson

Real photo post card - stamped on back. Good condition. Not posted. F N Jones Nelson.

Background has Nelson lighthouse an the two former keeper's cottages.

Vessel Name: PATEENA
Vessel ID: 1079262
Official No: 79262
Vessel Type: Passenger ship
Tonnage: 1,212 gross
Owner: Union Steam Ship Company
Entered Fleet: 1891
Left Fleet: 1924
Built: 1883
Builder: A & J Inglis, Glasgow, Scotland
Engine: Steam - compound
Date of Fate: 1926
Type of Fate: Scuttled
Place of Fate: Otago Heads
Region of Fate: Otago north coast
Vessel Abstract: Passenger accommodation for 280. 1891 entered Union Company fleet. Vessel broken up. Hull sunk in reclamation Otago Heads, 1926

SS Tofua leaving Nelson

Real photo post card - stamped on back.
Not posted. F N Jones photo
Nelson lighthouse in the background.

Dazzle paint scheme to put off submarines' torpedo aiming, puts the date as WW1

Vessel Name: TOFUA
Vessel ID: 1117600
Official No: 117600
Vessel Type: Passenger ship
Tonnage: 4,345 gross
Owner: Union Steam Ship Company
Entered Fleet: 1908
Left Fleet: 1934
Built: 1908
Builder: Wm. Denny & Bros., Dumbarton, Scotland
Engine: Steam - two triple expansion
Vessel Abstract: Twin screw steamer with accommodation for 145. 25 May 1934 registration closed on sale of vessel to Japanese for breaking up.

SS Waiwera at Nelson

Real photo post card - stamped on back - F N Jones Nelson. Good condition. Not posted.

Nelson lighthouse and the two former keeper's cottages in the background

Waiwera was built in 1898/9 by William Denny & Brothers of Dumbarton and Lloyds Register list her details as follows:

Ships No. 110243, Steel Sc3MstSr, 6237 Tons, 425.7 feet long, 54.1 feet breadth, 29.8 feet depth. Built for Shaw Saville & Albion Co. She was built with a cargo capacity of 80,000 carcasses.

In 1899 on October 1st, she sailed from Wellington with the first contingent of New Zealand troops to fight in the Boer War

Owner: Shaw Savill and Albion
Date of Fate: 1928
Type of Fate: Broken up