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Description: | 2 ms letters (31pp and 10pp) written in diary form in August 1914 by a lady passenger in the SS GALICIAN during her voyage from South Africa to the United Kingdom and describing in considerable detail the actions and reactions of the passengers and crew following the news of the outbreak of war in Europe and at the time of the ship's capture off the Canaries on 14 August by the German armed merchant cruiser KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE and her release on the following day; together with a presscutting from an unidentified Irish newspaper giving her husband's account of the voyage, a printed notice requesting passengers in GALICIAN not to show lights at night and a composition photograph of scenes taken during the voyage.
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Catalogue date 1983-04-18 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Calwell, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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