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The Aquitania in Wellington Harbour

This image shows the Aquitania in Wellington Harbour in 1940, when this Cunard White Star liner first visited New Zealand to load troops for the Middle East.

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  • Inspecting bomb damage on ship
    The Merchant Navy

Keywords

wellington city
shipping
aquitania
Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library,
Evening Post Collection
Reference: G-49250-1/4

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any reuse of this image.

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1 comment has been posted about The Aquitania in Wellington Harbour

What do you know?

David

Posted: 24 Jul 2012

I am aware that apart from the Maori Battalion a number of Royal Naval Volunteer Reservists were on board the Aquitania in 1940. Can anybody help me find out more about the Reservists, and anybody else who was in that convoy?