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Certificate, commemorative   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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W Harding
Title
Certificate, commemorative
Object type Classification: NM3.12761
Description
English: Framed illluminated certifcate commemorating the sinking of RMS Tahiti, 1930 Third Engineer Eric Milton Denby, Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd printed address with photograph of the RMS Tahiti and portraits of the ship's Engineer Officers. Presented by Union Steam Ship Company in appreciation of the officers' devotion to duty. The artist was W G Harding; the individual portraits of the officers were taken by an unidentified photographer-s. Signed by P Mackenzie, President and W Sommerville, Secretary
Date 05 Dec 2014; 15 Aug 1930-17 Aug 1930; (1930); 12 Dec 2014
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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2014.90.25
Place of creation Rarotonga; South Pacific Ocean; not researched
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Collection of Auckland Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 2014.90.25

Gift of Mr Evan Jenkins
Notes Associated with Third Engineer Eric Milton Denby, Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd Eric Milton Denby was born in Warkworth in 1895, 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- Eric joined the Dunedin-based Union Steamship 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. On December 8 1940 Denby was second engineer onboard 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. He died in Auckland on 4th May 1986.
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