That is some interesting history.
This ship?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SY_Morning
Yes
My grandfather signed on Oct 03 as an able seaman for just that voyage...
they were temps...I’ve read the manifest orders...the company signed promising a round trip...
It was the summer that Scott had been stuck in the ice...oh great Antarctic explorer !!!
When Shackleton got sick because the Discovery was still stuck in the ice etc he was moved to the Morning ...
Scott didn’t want any of the able seaman who were not sworn to secrecy like the officers and regulars to blab when they all got back to England so many of the seaman were “beached” at Lyttleton even though they had signed on for the whole voyage and they were suppose to be taken home to England...regular pirates...
In April 1904 my grandfather and several others were left behind when the ships went back to England for Scott’s grand acclamations from the Royal Exploration Society...or whatever it was called...
However some of them told the local New Zealand newspapers using fictious names...
Since their free ride had deserted them the able seamen had to get on another ship and work their passage or stay in New Zealand..or pay their own way home...
My grandfather stayed and met and married my grandmother in Christchurch and my father was born there...
Wee bit o history there eh ???
:)