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Groups include: visitors to Southern Cross in canoe; Southern Cross crew; schoolgirls on boat; Santa Cruz men boarding Southern Cross from canoes; indigenous men and women on board Southern Cross at Bugotu [Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands]; group of non-indigenous Solomon Island residents returning after the war on the Southern Cross; People include: Captain Sinker using sextant on board Southern Cross; ?Lanham and Southern Cross steward, Liverpool; Right Rev W J Simkin; Rev J Lawley Brown of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen; Bishop of Melanesia; Nathaniel, son of Rev J Talofuila; Archdeacon Teall; Fred Hoare, Chief Officer Hoare, Miss Samuels, Captain Upward, Miss Barrett, Mrs Sprott, Archdeacon Reynolds on board Southern Cross Events include: dedication of Southern Cross 1932, Greenwich Pier; dedication and launch of Southern Cross VIII; fleet of decorated canoes welcoming Southern Cross, Santa Isabel; tea party aboard Southern Cross; Activities include: "Southern Cross" leaving Auckland for the Islands, 1908; dedication of Southern Cross VII, Liverpool; Sister Helen Barrett teaching Lord Howe [now Ontong Java] girl on Southern Cross; Activities include: unloading rice; operating radio; Also includes: interior and deck views of Southern Cross including chapel and altar; "Patteson"; "St Mary Stafford"; "Selwyn" Prints taken by/received from: John Watt Beattie; Triune Press, 70 Victoria Street, London; Captain Healy; Sydney Morning Herald; Northern Star; -
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