Tag: Siswick
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Lizzie sets sail on the Orontes
On a mid-autumn day in October 1902, thirty-year-old Lizzie Whitehead sailed from England to meet her fiance, George Harry Siswick, who was halfway around the world, in Aotearoa New Zealand. It was the maiden voyage of R.M.S. Orontes, the Orient Line’s newest and largest ship completed by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan.… Read more