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MARQUETTE

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:10 pm

New Zealand’s first hospital chapel was built in 1927-28 in the grounds of Christchurch Hospital to commemorate the sinking of the troopship MARQUETTE. This stamp shows part of a stained-glass window within the chapel depicting a First World War nurse above the ship. Beside her a Second World War nurse is shown above the pyramids of Egypt.
This window was designed to commemorate the contribution and sacrifice of nurses who served in the First and Second World Wars. It includes references to nurses in uniforms of the times and seven nursing medals. The WWI nurses are seen with a representation of the MARQUETTE in the Aegean while the WWII nurses are depicted in Egypt and the Middle East with association to the pyramids.
MARQUTTE: Built as a passenger-cargo vessel under yard No 373 by A. Stephen& Sons at Linthouse near Glasgow for Wilson & Furness, London.
25 November 1897 launched as the BOADICEA.
Tonnage 7,057 gross, 4,441 net, dim. 149.96 x 15.91 x 9.54m., length bpp. 148.3.
Powered by one 3-cyl.triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by builder, 770 nhp, speed 14 knots.
Bunker coal capacity 1,100 tons.
Accommodation for 120 passenger’s first class.
January 1898 completed.
15 January 1898 made her maiden voyage from Glasgow to New York, then back to London.
18 February 1898 first voyage from London to New York. 7 July 1898 made her last voyage for the company in this service.
1898 Bought by Atlantic Transport Line, and in the service between London across the North Atlantic to New York.
11 August 1898 her first voyage for her new owners still under the name BOADICEA for one round voyage before renamed MARQUETTE on 15 September 1898.
February 1901 she lost two blades of her screw, but was able to reach her destination with only two blades.
May 1903 in the English Channel during fog she came in collision with the PREUSSEN, and had to call Southampton for repair.
24 March 1904 last voyage London to New York.
Chartered September 1905 by the Red Star Line for the service between Antwerp and Philadelphia, her accommodation downgraded to second class.
August 1914 made her last voyage for the Red Star Line from Antwerp to Boston and Philadelphia.
03 September 1914 resumed London to New York service for the Atlantic Transport Line.
30 December 1914 made her last voyage in this service.
Was then chartered as a transport by the British Government.
19 October 1915 sailed from Alexandria bound for Salonika under command of Captain John Bell Findlay with on board 95 crew, 6 Egyptians, 36 New Zealand nurses’ 12 officers and 143 other ranks of the No 1 Stationary Hospital and the Ammunition Column of the British 29th Division of 449 men. There were also 491 mules and 50 horses on board and ammunition.
The Marquette was escorted by the French destroyer TIRAILLEUR, but she left just before the attack.
23 October she was sighted by the German U-35 under command of Lt. Cdr. Waldemar Kophamel in a position 36 miles South of Salonika. The MARQUETTE with a speed of 9 knots was torpedoed on 09.15 a.m. and sank after 13 minutes after the torpedo struck, killing 29 crew, 10 nurses and 128 troops.
A naval Court of Enquiry was held on the protected cruiser HMS TALBOT in Salonica Harbour on 26 October. The report, dated 3 November, found that no-one was at fault.

More on the sinking you can find on the URL’s below.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzlsc ... quette.htm http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bi ... 160104.2.6 http://www.cnmc.org.nz/chapelwindhttp:/ ... 97)ows.htm

New Zealand 2015 80c Sg?, scott?
Source: Wikipedia. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the age of Steam 1824-1962. North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor. Merchant Fleets in profile volume 2 by Duncan Haws. Internet.
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