42. 1913 Poems

Within F.A.I.s book there are non dated 1913.
The 'book' after 1912 continues but 1914/15 and beyond are not as per page number. I have to my mind that the he wrote on the even pages as he went along, initially, but as the years went on he picked up the book again & filled in the odd pages. These are a couple with no date on even pages, following on from 1912.

To One Away

I heard a cry in the night
A thousand miles it came
Sharp as a flash it came
My name, my name
It was your voice I heard
You waked and loved me so
I send you back this word
I know I know

Gentians

I gave you flowers that painted true
The color of your eyes
Each year I gather gentians blue
Since you have gone In Paradise
Do you remember where they grew
And under which ethereal skies
We sought them as the summer prize
Ah love the gentians bloom anew
I love them but I have not you

Is this someone who has died or someone who died in his eyes, non reciprocated affection??

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!)

39. 1913 Canada

In 1913 F.A.I. must have decided he needed a change of adventure and sea way.

During most of 1913 he sailed back and forth from Liverpool to Canada.

His first trip was on 7th March to St. John, New Brunswick as 3rd Cook.

After much eye-strain I figure the ship was R.M.S Grampian.

The Grampian was built by A.Stephen & Son, Glasgow in 1907 for Allan Line.
Her passenger capacity was 210 1st class, 250 second class and 1000 3rd class. She sailed from Liverpool to Canada 1907 –1921, unfortunately, in 1921 she was gutted by a fire whilst having a refit in Antwerp.

In 1913 The Imperial Theatre was built in St.John, New Brunswick…… I wonder if F.A.I. managed to see a performance or 2 whilst he was there. The theatre managed to pull in some of the huge stars of the time such as Harry Lauder, Ethel Barrymore and John De Sousa.

Granddad did like his pin ups and within his postcard collection there are few