40. 1913 Canada phase 2

For the rest of the year he sailed on the R.M.S Tunisian. The first entry is impossible to read but the date is obviously post April 1913.

Throughout all his sailings on the Tunisian he was a ‘Veg Cook’ (again is this better or worse than a 2nd or 3rd Cook… these days he would be fairly important with ‘5-a-day’!!)

His sailings were mostly to Montreal
4th June – 6th July
9th July- 27th July
6th August- 27th August
9th September – 24th September
1st October – 23rd October
29th October - ? November
6th November – 9th December (to St.John)

The R.M.S. Tunisian was launched in 1900 by the Allan Line after being built by Alex Stephen & Son, Glasgow. Her maiden voyage was on 5th April 1900 from Liverpool to Halifax and Portland, Maine. Not long after she started sailing to Quebec and Montreal.

During WW1 she served as a prisoner of war ship on the coast of the Isle of White and then later serving as a troop carrier. She returned to commercial service in 1917, servicing Canada from Liverpool, London and Glasgow.
In 1920 she was converted to a ‘cabin/3rd class’ configuration and in 1922 she was renamed the Marburn.In April 1928 she made her final transatlantic crossing from Antwerp to St.John, New Brunswick and later that year she went to the breakers yard (at least she avoided the torpedoes, unlike a lot of the ships F.A.I. sailed on!)