Journal kept by Hornby's father-in-law of voyage to Adelaide in Woolloomooloo, visit to cousins in Adelaide and return voyage to Southampton in Friedrich der Grosse, 16 October 1900-24 April 1901
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Subjects include: boarding Woolloomooloo; leaving Tilbury; other passengers; Las Palmas; weather; deck sports; taking and developing photographs; Cape Town 'everything is very expensive on account of the war'; Australian and New Zealand troops on board; arrival Port Adelaide 29 November; meeting cousins at Adelaide; Christmas Day; anniversary of founding of South Australia; drive to Blackwood; shops shut on death of Queen Victoria; trip to Mt Lofty to visit Sterlings; imperial troops marching through Adelaide; voyage on Friedrich der Grosse to Colombo; Lord Beauchamp on board; Aden; Suez; Southampton.
Photographs include: other passengers; deck games; Las Palmas; Australian troops at Cape Town (very poor copy), and on board; gumtree at St Leonards; Der Grosse Kurfurst; imperial troops in Adelaide; Pemberton, Glenelg; Friedrich der Grosse; Colombo (very poor copies); Aden; Suez Canal.
Also included 'Captain, doctor and various passengers on the ship', poem. (9p.)
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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