Link With Green Island
Green Island returned servicemen will soon have a close link with the former troop transport Nevasa, which finished service this year and was converted into a floating hotel for Olympic Games .competitors and visitors. Through the enterprise of the Mayor, Mr J. Boomer, her name-plate, now on board the steamer Cufic, en route to Dunedin, has been obtained, and it will be placed in the Green Island R.S.A. rooms. Besides its personal link, the name-plate will serve as a memorial to the work of merchant seamen during the two wars. Built in 1913 for the British India Steam Navigation Company, the Nevasa was used as a troop transport and a hospital ship for 27J years. In the First World War, during which Mr Boomer served in her as a junior engineer, she twice evaded submarine attacks. Some New Zealand soldiers will remember the Nevasa as the ship in which they travelled to the Middle East in the recent war.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 8
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163Link With Green Island Otago Daily Times, Issue 26842, 5 August 1948, Page 8
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