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What Knots
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1945
What Knots was a typewritten troopship magazine published on board the hospital ship (HS) HMNZ Maunganui captained by Captain A H Prosser during World War II.
What Knots featured, among the ship’s notices, songs, jokes, stories, contests, letters to the editor as well as a feature on the history of the HS Maunganui itself.
While only a few issues are available from the end of 1945 during the HS Maunganui’s 17th voyage, What Knots was by this stage is publishing its third volume, suggesting it had been a regular publication for some time. Accordingly, these issues outline part of the HS Maunganui’s final voyage, visiting Australia and New Zealand before transporting ex-prisoners of war to the United Kingdom and bringing the last of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force’s (2nd NZEF) wounded back to New Zealand from Italy and Egypt between November 1945 and March 1946.
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Material in this publication is subject to Crown copyright. New Zealand Defence Force is the copyright owner for What Knots. Please see the copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.
Acknowledgements
The National Library would like to thank the New Zealand Defence Force for their assistance in the digitisation of this title.
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