Crossing the Equator aboard SS PROTEA

Date1948

Object numberANMS0287[014]

NamePhotograph

MediumBlack and white photographic print on paper.

ClassificationsPhotographs

Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Alex Newman

Terms

crossing the line
refugees
SS PROTEA
Convicts, Migrants and Refugees
Immigration
Paper - photographic prints

DescriptionCzech migrant Alex Nypl left Genoa on the SS PROTEA on 16 November 1948 with other refugees displaced by WWII and its aftermath. On crossing the equator in the Indian Ocean a Crossing the Line ceremony was held with King Neptune and his court in attendance. The ship arrived in Melbourne on 22 December 1948.