This is a photograph album with green board covers and a cord binding. There are 129 photographs affixed with corner mounts and 29 loose photographs. There are white ink manuscript captions.

Contents: RMS Mongolia (1923) was launched in 1922 for the P&O passenger and cargo service to Australia. In 1938 she was chartered to the NZS Co. as the SS Rimutaka. She later became the SS Europa (1951), SS Nassau (1961) and SS Acapulco (1961). She was sold for breaking up in 1964. This album contains photographs of shipboard life, deck views, ship portraits and group photographs of officers and passengers as well as topographical views of places visited during her voyage. It was apparently compiled by Captain C B Roche.

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Photograph 1: P&O Mongolia (1923) at anchor, ca.1933.

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Photograph 2: Senior officers, RMS Mongolia (1923), August 1933. Identified as: J McLardy, H R Vernon, Sister J Todd, Blair and H W Weston.

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Photograph 3: Senior officers, RMS Mongolia (1923) cruising April – August 1933. Identified as: Captain C B Roche, H W Weston, F L Coloquhoun, H Russell Vernon, J McLardy and H R Rhodes.

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Photographs 4 – 7: Four views of junks near Penang, ca.1933.
Photographs 8 & 9: Two views of the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, ca.1933.

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Photograph 10: Loading bullocks at Port Sudan, August 1933.
Photographs 11 & 12: Two views of Malaya from the sea, June 1933.
Photograph 13: View of the quayside, Port Sudan, June 1933.



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Photographs 14 & 15: Two views of a whale on a slip at Durban, 1933.
Photographs 16: A native brigantine at anchor, Colombo, 1933.
Photograph 17: Victoria monument, Colombo, 1933.

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Photographs 18 & 19: Two views of Barcelona from a cable car, May 1933.
Photograph 20: A snake charmer, Bombay, 1933.
Photograph 21: Gateway to the East, Bombay, August 1933.

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Photographs 22 & 23: Two views of the sunset, China sea, 1933.
Photographs 24 & 25: A fishing boat and a steamer, Suez canal, 1933.
Photograph 26: Passengers in fancy dress, RMS Mongolia (1923), Arabian Sea, October 1933.

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Photographs 27 & 28: Two views of RMS Mongolia (1923) at Barcelona, May 1933.
Photograph 29: RMS Mongolia (1923) off the north west coast of Spain, April 1933.
Photograph 30: A temple at Columbo, September 1933.

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Photographs 31 & 32: Two views of Sir Edward Stubbs, Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) disembarking from RMS Mongolia (1923) onto a state barge, Colombo, December 1933.
Photograph 33: A Royal Indian Marine sloop dressed overall, Colombo, 1933.
Photograph 34: A bullock cart, Colombo, 1933.

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Photograph 35: A Bombay street scene, August 1933.
Photograph 36: View of shipping, Lisbon, May 1933.
Photograph 37: Small boats tied up and ready for landing passengers, 1933.
Photograph 38: RMS Mongolia (1923) sailing into Sydney Harbour, 1933.

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Photographs 39 & 40: Two views of fancy dress parties, RMS Mongolia (1923), December 1933.

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Photograph 41: RMS Mongolia (1923) at quayside, Port Sudan, August 1933.
Photograph 44: Bullock cart, Colombo, September 1933
Photograph 45: Sunset at Bergen, June 1933.

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Photograph 46: Sydney pilot cutter Captain Cook (1893) underway, ca.1934.
Photograph 47: Flying Fish cove, Christmas Island, April 1934.
Photograph 48: Krakatoa, April 1934.
Photograph 49: Sunset over Java Bay, April 1934.

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Photograph 50: Gulls on wing of bridge, RMS Mongolia (1923), North Sea, July 1933.

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Photograph 51: Cloud formation, ca.1934.
Photograph 52: View of Panjang Port, Indonesia, ca.1934.

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Photograph 53: View of the Nile, ca.1933.
Photograph 54: A Sepoy, ca.1933.
Photograph 55: Crossing the Line ceremony – Neptune waiting for victims, RMS Mongolia (1923), ca.1933.

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Photographs 56 – 59: Four views of Java, ca.1933.

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Photographs 60 & 61: Two views of Crossing the Line ceremony – Neptune’s victims being thrown into the bath, September 1933.

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Photographs 62 – 65: Four views of Ternate and Bali islands from the sea, ca.1933.

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Photograph 66: See photograph 26.
Photograph 67: Miss Macdonald in fancy dress, RMS Mongolia (1923), September 1933.
Photograph 68: Mrs Perrottet in fancy dress, RMS Mongolia (1923), September 1933.
Photograph 69: Sentry outside royal palace, Copenhagen, July 1933.

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Photographs 70 & 71: Two views of a group of men and one woman identified as ‘Plum’, New Caledonia, ca.1933.
Photographs 72 – 74: Three views of the Botanical Gardens, Singapore, ca.1933.

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Photograph 75: Neptune’s “foo foo” band, RMS Mongolia (1923), September 1933.
Photographs 76 & 77: Two views of fancy dress dance, Arabian Sea, August 1933.
Photograph 78: Passenger deck cricket team, September 1933.

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Photograph 79: Officer H Russell Vernon and ‘Self’ (?Captain Roche) in civilian clothes with unidentified lady, Southport, Queensland, ca.1933.
Photograph 80: “Self”, Sister Todd and unidentified lady, Southport, Queensland, ca.1933.
Photograph 81: Bullock cart, Colombo, September 1933.

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Photographs 82 – 84: Three views of Colombo, September 1933.
Photograph 85: HMS Hawkins (1917) at anchor, Colombo, September 1933.

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Photographs 86 – 88: Three views of Madeira, April 1933.


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Photographs 89 & 90: Two views of Madeira, April 1933.
Photograph 91: R Macdonald and “ Self” (?Captain Roche), King’s Park, Perth, September 1933.
Photograph 92: Lady identified as Irene with ?Captain Roche, Harpenden, March 1933.

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Photographs 93 – 95: Three views of Copenhagen, July 1933.

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Photographs 96 & 97: Two views of Balholm, Norway and palace at Copenhagen, July 1933.

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Photographs 98 & 99: Two views of Sydney Bridge and RMS Mongolia’s boat deck, October 1933.

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Photographs 100 -102: Three views of RMS Mongolia (1923) in Morts Dock, Sydney, at Bergen and at Port Sudan, 1933.

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Photographs 103 & 104: Captain Roche with two unidentified women, ca.1933.
Photographs 105 & 106: Two views of shipping, ca.1933.

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Photograph 107: Passengers watching Neptune, September 1933.

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Photographs 108 – 111: Four snapshots of ?Captain Roche with his family, Harpenden, 1933.
Photograph 112: Coloured postcard view of Bergen, 1933.

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Photograph 113: Tanks at Aden, ca.1933.
Photograph 114: Table Mountain, ca.1933.
Photograph 115: Head and shoulders view of a Sudanese man, ca.1933.

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Photograph 116: A European man in a rickshaw with Zulu rickshaw man, Durban, ca.1933.
Photograph 117: HMS Phoenix (1929) in Suez Canal, ca.1933.
Photograph 118: Stromboli from the sea, ca.1933.
Photographs 119 & 120: Two views of Colombo, ca.1933.

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Photographs 121 & 122: Two views of one design yacht Spindrift (1911) built by E H Webster and sold to J M Hardie, n.d.

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Photograph 123: Postcard colour print of Southern Cross (1954), n.d.

Loose photographs:
Photographs 124 – 136: Twelve photographs of unidentified officers, no dates.
Photograph 127: ? Captain Roche with Sir Shenton and Lady Thomas at Singapore, 8/11/1935.
Photograph 128: Group of passengers on RMS Mooltan (1923), May – June 1938.
Photograph 129: Group photograph showing Captain Roche with passengers –Messrs. Taylor, Edwards, Booth, Shaw, Kennett and Pester and Mrs Farr, Miss Sparrow and Miss Kingsbury, RMS Mongolia (1923), ca.1933.
Photographs 130 & 131: RMS Mooltan (1923) dressed overall at the anniversary regatta, Sydney, 1937.
Photograph 132: View of P&O liner Cathay (1925) steaming under Sydney Harbour Bridge, n..d.
Photograph 133: P&O liner Cathay (1925) at quayside, Sydney, n.d.
Photograph 134: Princes Pier, Port Melbourne, 1929.
Photograph 135: Two men removing propeller boss from P&O liner Cathay (1925), Marseilles, 22 March 1936.
Photograph 136: An R class P&O liner at anchor, ca.1925-26
Photograph 137: A grave to officers from hospital ship China (1896) accidentally killed in a boating trip, 3 August 1918.
Photograph 138: A mistral north east of the Balearic Islands, 1938.
Photograph 139: Two deck views of the Ladye Doris (1901) in very rough seas, n.d.
Photographs 140 & 141: Two views of a Union Jack laid out on the deck of a ship, n.d.
Ephemera 1: Letter to Captain Roche, Chief Officer, SS Khyber from Meteorological Office, London, 22 February 1927 re the British Weather Shipping Bulletin.
Ephemera 2: Newspaper cutting 1 December 1944 showing the sinking of the P&O liner Viceroy of India (1929).
Ephemera 3: Letter to L R Hardway, P&O, London from H A Smith, Cory & Son, 15 February 1954 re enclosure of photographs of the Mooltan.
Ephemera 4: Letter of thanks from Hardway for photographs, 22 February 1954.