Perhaps a wee dram too many.

Something called to me today from my grandmother's album, and I found this entry.
This fine drawing in pen and ink, is dated 5 January 1920, a hundred years ago today.

The humorous text reads

Whash in a name?

Donald: " Come on, come on, Agnes. Must get home the nicht "


Angus: " Dinna call me Agnes. Ma name's nae Agnesh.
It's, it's (hic) Anguish."

The drawing is signed by TGarner and the name of the ship they were on, TSS Ulysses.

A little research on the Internet revealed a lot about the ship.

This is taken from a site called https://www.wrecksite.eu

"The TSS Ulysses was built in Belfast by Workman Clark and was launched on July 5th 1913. On 22nd October 1913 she took up service on the Glasgow-Liverpool-Brisbane route. In 1915 she was trooping Australian soldiers to the Suez area and in 1917 was trooping US soldiers across the Atlantic. In 1920 she was back on commercial service to Brisbane via Capetown. She was an important part of the Blue Funnel fleet with the Commodore Captain R D Owen in command. In 1942 she got out of Hong Kong prior to the arrival of the Japanese, sailing to Singapore and then Australia where she loaded a cargo for Liverpool via Panama Canal. On April 8th she collided with a vessel causing some bow damage, causing her to head for Newport News for repairs. On 11th April, 5 miles off Palm Beach, Florida, she was torpedoed twice by U-160 and sunk quickly. No lives were lost."


The confirmation that this must surely be the same SS Ulysses (many ships have borne that name) is the reference to the 1920 service to Cape Town, South Africa.