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Jacket, mess
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| Title |
Jacket, mess |
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| Object type | Classification: NM3.13211 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Merchant navy - mercantile marine mess jacket, post WW2 Part of uniform worn by Second Engineer Eric Milton Denby, Union Steamship Co. double breasted jacket; fully lined pockets- buttons- brass USSCo buttons rank insignia- Second Engineer's lace on sleeves |
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| Date | post-WW2-wars; 05 Dec 2014; Post 1945; 12 Dec 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2014.90.17 |
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| Place of creation | not researched | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line |
Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.90.17 Gift of Mr Evan Jenkins |
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| Notes | merchant navy - mercantile marine mess jacket, post WW2 Part of uniform worn by Second Engineer Eric Milton Denby, Union Steamship Co. Eric Milton Denby (1895-1986) was born in Warkworth but lived most of his life in Northcote, Auckland. He trained as an engineer and in WW1 enlisted with NZ Field Artillery (service number 17179), leaving New Zealand with the 16th Reinforcements. He survived a gunshot wound to the scalp in Ypres in 1917 but was adjudged no longer physically fit for military service. Post WW1 Service with the Union Steam Ship Co. Following WW1 Eric joined the Dunedin-based Union Steam Ship Co. as an engineer and his maritime career with the company was marked by at least two significant events, both sinkings. On 19 August 1930, Denby was third engineer on the RMS Tahiti when she sank near Rarotonga en route from Wellington to San Francisco, following a holing two days previously caused by the breaking of a propeller shaft. All were rescued. Three years earlier the Tahiti had accidentally rammed the ferry Greycliffe in Sydney Harbour resulting in the death of 40 passengers. We don’t yet know if Denby was present on the Tahiti at that time. WW2- On December 8 1940 Denby was second engineer on board the SS Komata when she was sunk off Nauru by the German raider Komet. Most of the crew were rescued and taken on board to join the survivors of other cargo and passenger vessels sunk over the previous month by the raider and her two fellow hunters. Denby was one of nearly 500 captives eventually marooned by the Germans on Emirau Island. Post WW2- Denby stayed with the company and rose to the rank of Chief Engineer. He died in Auckland on 4th May 1986. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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