In 1948 she was converted into an “austerity” emigrant carrier, with accommodation for 617 passengers and chartered to the International Refugee Organisation, transporting emigrants from Italy to Australia, and acted as a troopship for the North African garrisons in Libya. I was on a RMS ship which I thought was the Andes but if Andes was a passenger ship then I was wrong. It can be found in the register by the DOS ID 5515209.The company was established and set into the register ⦠Dim ateb yn well nag ateb anghywir. Sadly, Dunera was finally broken for scrap in Spain in 1967. 27. 1. On arriving at Falmouth from Capetown on the 6th. Director: Ken Loach, 2006 ... Director: Jean Renoir, 1951 This coming of age story revolves around Harriet, the daughter of an English jute mill owner, who lives in a house on the banks of the Ganges. July 1957 she was sent to Newport in South Wales for Scrapping. In April 1963 she was sold to Forteiza Cia. In 1951 she was sold as scrap and broken up at Dalmuir in Scotland. On the 2nd. 13. . She was a 15,507 gross tonnage ship, length 550.3 feet, beam 67.3 feet with one funnel and two masts. On the 14th. Empire Halladale. The Georgic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1932 for the White Star Line. She was to be closely associated with this port, firstly as a troopship, for twenty-four years, and then as a pioneering educational cruise liner for seven years. In September 1941 she was transferred to the East Indies Fleet and remained in the Indian Ocean until the end of 1943. Lancashire Aerial view of United Nations headquarters with Secretariat building. This ship was built at the Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Maatschappij dockyard 194 in Amsterdam, and was launched on the 3rd. . 28. She was captured by the Royal Navy on 14th. The fire could not be fought because of the lack of electrical power for the pumps, and the back-up generators were unusable. In 1979 she was sold, once again, this time to the Indonesian Navy and spent her remaining years trooping as the Tanjung Pandan. She was originally named the TSS Cameronia. If a track is at position 1, it gets 100 points, if it is in position 100, it gets 1 point. and a service speed of 16 knots. In 1951 she was sold as scrap and broken up at Dalmuir in Scotland. Later she was sold, with the Orduna, to the Royal Mail Line. December 1966 she arrived at Valencia in Spain for scrapping. July 1947 450 troops embarked for service in India, walked off the ship, complaining about condition on board. Asturias. When bound for Singapore, carrying 1,400 troops, she was torpedoed by the U-402 just north of the Azores, on the 16th. During her maiden voyage , on the South American service, with Commodore E.W.E. . Eventually she arrived in Southampton on the 6th. In the winter of 1954-55 the Georgic resumed assisted passage voyages to Australia, and on the 16th. November 1955. 24. When she was built she had three funnels, but in 1947 she caught fire, while undergoing a refit in Hebburn-on-Tyne. As it soon became increasingly difficult to steer her, with out a rudder, she was eventually towed into Gibraltar on 8th. July for demolition. Empire Ken 617450 I joined the Empire Ken 23-08-1955 in Southampton. She and her sister ship, the Dilwara, represented a considerable advance on the older troopships. She went for an extensive refurbishment in 1946, to Harland and Wolff, and then continued in service for a further nineteen years. November 1929. "Empire Woodlark" en-route Durban-Suez, June 1944 by Tony Palmer Find out more about cookies On 12th. The East of today is no longer the East of Palmerston and Disraeli. Empire Ken 9523tons, built 1928 Passenger ship. BoxRec.com uses cookies to make the site simpler. Left Cyprus and called at Port Tewvic where we picked up load of Mauritous pioneer corp and took them down to Mauritous. She was built for the Hamburg South American Line, and sailed on the Hamburg to River Plate route until 1932. Her powerful machinery gave her a greater range than the other educational cruise ships, and her anti-roll stabilisers provided greater comfort. The one I was on was a cargo boat & had a similar name. If any more are known of, i.e. October 1942 she returned to England for six-month re-armament at Southampton and the Clyde. Newsinger: War, Empire and the Attlee government 1945â1951 63 pacifismâ.2 The Statement, three-and-a-half years into the Great War, committed the party to âso conduct the terrible struggle in which they find themselves engaged as to bring it, as soon as may be possible, to ⦠In 1934 Union Castle introduced Round Africa cruises and Llangibby’s Third Class accommodation was converted to Tourist Class, a First Class ticket costing £105 with a Tourist costing £40. A further refit, again by Blohm and Voss, changed the passenger ratios to 50 First Class and 1337 Tourist Class. She was used again as a troopship in 1951, picking up Moluccan troops to take them back to Holland. Information aquired from the internet, 7.10.2010. 10. December 1930. The Fowey was originally called the Potsdam, but was seized by the Allies at Flensburg in 1945. In 1939 she was aquired by the Admiralty who converted her into a troopship, for use in World War Two, but was re-converted back as a passenger liner in 1948. On the 17th. She was sold to the Greek Line in January 1958, and renamed the “Arkadia”; rebuilt and modernised by Blohm and Voss, Hamburg, now with a carrying capacity 150 First Class and 1150 Tourist Class passengers. His name was Fred Hoar and he passed away in 2003 aged 69 follow complication with heart surgery. 2. She made two voyages on this run and was then chartered to the Cunard Line and used on their Liverpool to New York service until 1919. In July 1940 she sailed from Liverpool to Lisbon, repatriating French nationals after the fall of France, sailing fully illuminated at night under an International Safe Conduct guarantee. During the capture the German crew managed to sabotage the ships engines. During this time she had also transported batches of British servicemen to various destinations. Top shot Bridge Captain greeting pilot. She was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead and launched on 28th. I would like to get in touch with you. April sailed to the Clyde, where she was converted into a troopship for 3,000 men. Empire Clyde. Her after funnel was removed and eight 6” guns and two 12-pounders were fitted, but after completion of the conversion, at Portsmouth she required further work on the Clyde. 1951-06-05: Cesar Brion: 30 5 0: White City Stadium, White City ... EBU European Heavy Title. She commenced trooping South and East Africa, and during a night time air raid was damaged by bombs when in Liverpool on 21st. In 1939 she was refurbished and accommodation was reduced to 124 passengers. Various deck scenes with troops aboard 'Empire Ken'. July the Llangibby Castle was requisitioned and converted for use as a troopship, as she was the ideal battalion carrying size. Mauretania. She was eventually repaired and renamed the Empire Trooper and put into service as a troopship. Memory has just kicked in, it was the Araby, My late farther waz ab on andes ,alcantara ,almazora his name waz tom webber from southampton, Captain G D williams spent 7 years until 1946 with Royal mail Lines does anyone remember him. After this she carried out trooping voyages to the East Indies, Indo-China and Japan, and in October 1946 took the last British troops from French North Africa. The s.s. Athlone Castle was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and was launched on 28th. On the 10th. She transported survivors from the Japanese concentration camps, and in 1950 was used to transport Dutch immigrants to Sydney. 7. March 1940 Cunard – White Star were informed that she was to be taken out of commercial service, and on the 19th. (According to members of the RAF Changi Association who had the pleasure of travelling on her.). Her last sailing for Australia in, February 1953, was beset by mechanical problems, including enforced conversion from quadruple to triple expansion in thirty-six hours, arriving back in London, on the 22nd. Charles King, Roger,Sorry for the late reply but my brother got his hands on my computer. 13. January 1943 she returned to Liverpool, under her own power, before going on to Belfast. Athlone Castle She was later sold for scrapping and sent to Osaka for breaking in March 1959. Orduna She was sold to the Blue Funnel Line in 1958 and renamed again this time as the Gunung Djati, a pilgrim ship, sailing between Indonesia and Djeddah. . In 1927 she returned to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and resumed the Liverpool – Rio – Montevideo – Valparaiso service. Orduna. April and re-named the Corfu Maru, for a cargo only voyage to Japan and subsequently reported as laid up at Osaka. 6. When built there was capacity for 2,886 passengers. They were on the ship for a cruise. During the Second World War these ships took part in the evacuation from Singapore, and the landings in Madagascar, Sicily and Southern France. March 1963, after the passenger accommodation had been adjusted to accommodate 406 First Class, 364 Cabin Class and 357 Tourist Class, she began a new service calling at New York, Cannes, Genoa and Naples. There was passenger accommodation for 240 First Class, 180 Second Class and 700 Third Class. After the surrender of Japan she carried 1,700 prisoners of war from Rangoon to Liverpool, arriving in September. Come join the discussion about crew logs, maritime history, shipping lines, shipwrecks, cruise ships, weather, and more! All the above information taken from the Internet. 9523tons, built 1928 Passenger ship. She continued trooping until 1962 when she was sold to the British India Line, where she was refitted and continued her career as an educational cruise ship, being renamed the Devonia. In July 1943 she was torpedoed in the South Atlantic, but was successfully towed to Freetown, some five hundred miles by Zwarte Zee. In 1957 she was sold for breaking, but before her final voyage she played the part of the Titanic in the film “A Night to Remember” at Faslane. She was next sent to Alex Stephens, in 1953, for conversion for use on the New Zealand assisted Passage scheme, with accommodation for 584 passengers, and was now renamed as the Captain Hobson, and used on the Glasgow – Wellington service. February, escorted by three Destroyers and an Admiralty Tug. She could Carry 203 First Class and 103 Second Class passengers. My father went to Egypt on 6 October 1953, and we then followed him, leaving Southampton on the troopship Empire Ken in early 1954, and arriving at ⦠She sailed for one year as the Empire Jewel before taking on the name of Empire Fowey in 1946, under the management of the P & O Line, and served as a troopship. She was Commodore Ship, in a six vessel Union Castle convoy, which transported South African troops to Suez for the North African campaign in 1940, the other ships being the Arundel, Windsor, Winchester, Durban and Capetown Castles. After spending fifty-seven days awaiting a replacement rudder, which never materialised, she set sail, with her escorts, bound for the UK some 1,400 miles distance, arriving home on 13th. 22. 2. Scuttled on 25 August 1941 at Bandar Shapur, Iran. On 1st. 20. Scrapped in September 1962 at Hong Kong. May 1936 and became the first Royal Mail ship to enter Buffalo Harbour, East London, South Africa on 5th. March 1954. voyage and ten days later sailed for Taiwan to be broken by the China Steel Corporation, at Kaohsiung, where scrapping actions commenced on the 13th. Her foreword funnel was a dummy. December 1944 she re-emerged with only one funnel and a stump foremast. The s.s. Corfu was launched on Wednesday the 20th. On 20th. 8. All information gathered from the internet. These modifications increased her horsepower to 20,000 SHP, and for aesthetic purposes, as well as soot problems, the height of her funnels was increased. 3. 8. December she was destroyed by fire, with over 1,000 people on board the quick spreading blaze swept throughout the ship causing the deaths of 128 personnel, the remainder taking to the life boats. 11. As a passenger liner she could accommodate 177 First Class and 214 Second Class passengers. Originally built in 1922 by Stettin Maschinbau AG Vulcan of Hamburg, as a German 13,942 gross tonnage passenger steamer she was named the Cape Norte, which was later changed to the Sierra Salvador. 4. Her first voyage, in this guise, was from Bremerhaven to Montreal, via Cherbourg-Liverpool-Greenock-Quebec, was on the 22nd May 1958. Empire Trooper In 1960 she was sold to the China Navigation Company, who changed her name to the Kuala Lumpur. In early 1940 she commenced her service as an AMC in the Atlantic ocean, where her turn of speed enabled her to overhaul any suspicious vessels with some ease. W. Ward of Newport, Monmouthshire. September it was decided to salvage her so the hulk was raised, plugged and towed away by the Clan Campbell and the City of Sydney. Empire Pride September 1945 she arrived at Singapore with the first convoy transporting troops sent to re-occupy the city. Oxfordshire. April 1920 she resumed her Liverpool – Rio de Janeiro – Montevideo – Valparaiso sailings and on 28th. October 1913 she left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Valparaiso on 19th. She then sailed on to Bombay (Mumbai) where she was dry-docked for hull cleaning and further repairs. 1945 Seized by Allies at Travemunde. She was then offered for sale, but the Australian Government chartered her for the summer. On the 30.8.1939 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser and converted by her builders. At the outbreak of hostilities, in 1939, she was converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, for use on the South Atlantic patrols, her fore funnel and main mast were removed to improve the capabilities of her anti-aircraft guns. On 28th. After carrying pilgrims to Jeddah over the Years, she was eventually scrapped in Taiwan on 1st. July 1927. Current List:- (28) I was bathroom steward during the Suez crisis back in 56.Johnny Everett was with me.Tiny Gladhill. During World War Two she was involved in evacuations from Singapore and Greece, the Madagascar landings and action on the Burma coast, where she was damaged after striking a mine. She commenced her maiden voyage on 5th. Oxfordshire The subsequent explosion and fire killed four crew members. She also repatriated German North African wounded and prisoners of war. In 1948 the Windrush was en route from Australia to England, via the Atlantic, docking in Kingston, Jamaica to pick up the first boatload of West Indian immigrants to take up employment in the United Kingdom. October 1945, she received a tumultuous welcome. MS French hospital ship 'Marseilles' joining convoy. di Nav, Genoa . 11. March from Rotterdam to Halifax, Nova Scotia and back to Glasgow and was then positioned to Avonmouth for runs to Canada and South America. 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