NAA: A1, 1907/10922
Mandelstam, Eda
Digital copy - 8775
| Occupation as written | Married woman |
| Standardised occupation | XX00: Other - Other |
| Application received | 27 Nov 1907 |
| Application status |
Approved |
| Official | |
| Date of approval or denial | 11 Dec 1907 |
| If rejected, why? | |
| Birthplace as written | Kronstadt, Russia |
| Modern country | Russia |
| Age on application | 40 |
| Age on arrival in Australia | 38 |
| Port of Departure | Bremen, Germany |
| Port of Arrival | Freemantle |
| Date of arrival | 13 Nov 1905 |
| Name of ship | SS Scharnhorst |
| Voyage | Scharnhorst (1905-11-13) |
| Address in Australia | Perth |
| Address State | Western Australia |
| Time at address | 2 years, 9 months |
| Married | Yes |
| Children | Yes |
1: a boy residing at Harwood Place, Newcastle Street, Perth, Western Australia. |
| Name of reference | Lawrence Alexander |
| Occupation of reference | Justice of the Peace (Western Australia) |
| Marginalia description | A lot of pencilled additions, including "German" and the year of her arrival, "1905". |
| Police report attached | No |
| Link to other applicant | |
| Literate | Yes |
| Reason | N/A |
| Other information | |
The SS Scharnhorst was a German passenger liner and mail ship launched in 1904. The ship was built in the Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde, Germany, for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company. The Scharnhorst belonged to a class of eleven steamers known as the Generals-class. They were built for the German Imperial Mail Service to Australia and the Far East. When the First World War started she had made 19 round trips to Australia, seven to the Far East and five to the USA. She was the only ship of her class to be in Germany in 1914 and was used for some time in 1917 and 1918 as a troop transport in the Baltic Sea. In 1919 she was seized by France and used from 1921 to 1931 in French service as La Bourdonnais. In 1934 the ship was broken up in Genoa.