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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aquitaine, post: 3909595, member: 602&quot;]That looks very cool!!!&nbsp; Didn&#039;t find anything with the bottom initials...I think, as stated above &#039;JHR&#039;....BUT, boy did I get hauled into reading about the S.S. Southland!!!!&nbsp; An Australian troopship that got torpedoed in 1915, but miraculously DIDN&#039;T sink,&nbsp; <a href="https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/groupstories/2634" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/groupstories/2634" rel="nofollow">https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/groupstories/2634</a>,</p><p>Lifted from the Ships List web site,&nbsp; and was refitted to serve again only this time sunk <span style="color: #0080ff">(</span> <span style="color: #0080ff"><i>In 1915 she was requisitioned as a troopship and renamed SOUTHLAND and on 2nd Nov.1915 was torpedoed in the Aegean Sea, but reached port and was repaired. She returned to White Star - Dominion Liverpool - Quebec - Montreal service in Aug.1916 but on 4th Jun.1917 was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U.70 off the Irish coast with the loss of 4 lives. [North Atlantic Seaway, vol.2, p.855 by N.R.P.Bonsor])</i></span></p><p><a href="https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/11371-ss-southland-belgium/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/11371-ss-southland-belgium/" rel="nofollow">https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/11371-ss-southland-belgium/</a></p><p>Page 1, 3rd person down: &#039;<font size="4"><b><b>michaeldr&#039;</b></b> !!!&nbsp; Great history!!!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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