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Ship Garthsnaid, ca 1920s

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  • 199 older comments, and then…
  • Robert Carrier said:
    Wow. What a phenomenal photograph.
  • Lucy said:
    wonderful
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Often those young lads fell from the yards, either into the sea or onto the deck. They hoped for the latter as that way death would be more immediate. If they fell into the sea there was zero chance of rescue. The ship sailed on.
  • Terrific Lake said:
    best shot
  • Jonathan Stiles said:
    Imagine that ship pitching and yawing . . . . they'd experience being lifted and dropped dozens of feet: it would be hard to stay on! A very good account of what that life was like is written in autobiographical form by Eric Newby in "The Last Grain Race."

New Zealand officers Hart, Russell, Melvill, Symon and Young, during the occupation of Germany during World War 1

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  • Dai777 said:
    Might that be Following the First World War (there was an armistice in November 1918)

Members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company in their bunks below the ground at La Fosse Farm

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  • jamica1 said:
    claustrophobes need not apply!
  • jamica1 said:
    You say in the caption 5 December 2017. Do you perhaps mean 1917?
  • Antonio R. Tabares said:
    jamica1 👍

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