Name: Edwin Bernard
Email:  EdBinLA@aol.com on Saturday, March 18, 2006 at 14:06:36
From: Calcutta, India
Home: Sylmar, California
Ship: S.S. Strathmore
Dates: March-April 1962

Comments: Our family sailed to Tilbury, England from Bombay, India to join our father who had moved to England a year earlier. We enjoyed the voyage immensely. I clearly remember what was the 1st Class Lounge and the Tourist Class Lounge. Of course this was a Classless Ship at the time we travelled as far as what parts of the ship we could visit. My brother and I had an inside cabin with bunk beds and my mother, grandmother and two sisters shared a cabin with a porthole. I especially liked eating in the dining room and the Captains Cocktail Party as well as a visit to the Bridge. Recently we sailed on the QM2 and as fantastic as this ship is the excitement did not match the experience on the good old Strathmore.

Name: Jean Mell (Nee Bowling)
Email: kylean@bigpond.net.au on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 07:53:20
From: Potters Bar England
Home: Willaston South Australia
Ship: Orontes
Dates: 31/05/1955 to 1/07/1955

Comments: I sailed from England at the age of 19 with my Father, Step Mother and 3 younger brothers. I was after any information and copies of pictures that anyone may have from this crossing.

Name: Alma Lavender (Taylor)
Email: breedorp@yahoo.com.au on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:08:08
From: Hitchin Herts
Home: Gulgong N.S.W
Ship: Strathaird
Dates: 12 Feb 1956 arrived Sydney 21st Mar 1956

Comments: I left Tilbury on the 12th of Feb 1956 on the Strathaird. I shared a cabin with Una McDowell and 2 girls from Scotland named Martha and Grace. Una came from Dublin. We were in a group of 10 girls under the age of 21. I would like to contact anyone who may remember me. My name was Alma Taylor and was 17 years old at the time.

Name: Marion Brown
Email: minbrown@tiscali.co.uk on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:43:46
From: Kent, England
Home: Dorset, England
Ship: Strathaird
Dates: Early 1956

Comments: Travelled to Adelaide early 1956 with parents and brother Terry. If anyone has a passenger list that I could have a copy of which includes Mr D R R Brown and family I would be grateful.

Name: Maggie McPherson (nee Philpot)
Email: mrmac2@optusnet.com.au on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 22:33:45
From: Belfast
Home: Victoria, Australia
Ship: S.S.Iberia
Dates: December 1955

Comments: We sailed from Tilbury just before Christmas 1955. I remember having Christmas on board.The trip through the Suez Canal ws amazing. I had my birthday on the ship just before we arrived in Freemantle. It was a great party. We docked in Melbourne on 17th January 1956. It was hot but it actually rained that day. I remember it as a magical time.

Name: Nigel French
Email: nigelfrench@iprimus.com.au on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 12:10:01
From: Dartford,Kent   U.K.
Home: Queensland Australia
Ship: SS Orontes
Dates: August/September 1954

Comments: Just getting a bit nostalgic!!!

Name: Jean Old
Email: jeanbarrynella@hotmail.com on Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 16:17:00
From: Australia
Home: Melbourne
Ship: Ranchi
Dates: 1951

Comments: This is a great site.

Name: Tony Barnett
Email: tba93968@bigpond.net.au on Friday, March 24, 2006 at 09:48:01
From: Sth Acton London
Home: Sydney Australia
Ship: SS Arcadia
Dates: 24 Dec 1961- Feb 1962

Comments: I had the good luck to emigrate to Australia on the SS Arcadia with my family as an assisted migrant. An amazing adventure for a child 11 years old. Sea sickness and a spell of pneumonia as well for added intrest.

Name: Shirley Allott
Email: sallott@hotmail.com on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 22:44:05
From: England
Home: Melbourne
Ship: Himalaya
Dates: 1960

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Name: Helen June Berman nee Qualter
Email: hjberman@hotmail.com on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 16:00:11
From: Prescot, Merseyside
Home: Melbourne, Australia
Ship: Strathnaver
Dates: 7th December 1961

Comments: I have very fond memories of my very first trip overseas and on the Strathnaver. I was just 20 years old when I left my home to emigrate to Australia on my own. I shared a cabin with two other girls whose name I have unfortunately forgotten and made many friends on board including passengers and crew. I was very young and unworldly, but I will never forget some of the places we stopped at on our way to Australia; Aden, Bombay, and Suez. British passengers without passports were not allowed off at Suez in fact I think all British passengers were not allowed ashore. It cost me £10 for a wonderful experience. I would love to hear from any other passengers or crew, in particular a cabin steward whose name I think was Allan Stewart, on that particular voyage. I am now 64 years of age and have been back to Britain many times but nothing will ever compare to that first voyage on the Strathnaver.

Name: Valerie Cross
Email: glarner@bigpond.net.au on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 01:31:21
From: Great Britain
Home: Western Australia
Ship: SS Stratheden
Dates: August/Sept 1963

Comments: Would like to access passenger list for the voyage I arrived on. Great site!

Name: Richard Fox
Email: yfox01@bigpond.com on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 12:16:48
From: London
Home: Devonport. Tasmania.
Ship: Oriana, Orcades, Orsova, Remuera.
Dates: 1961-66

Comments: After completing a course waiting on tables on the Strathmore at Tilbury, I joined Oriana in Southhampton (she was in dry dock). I am not sure whether it was her maiden voyage to Australia or maybe the second anyway it was a great time in my life and I went on the other ships following an upgrade to "Cabin Steward". I hope some of my old Pig and Whistle Buddies see this, Spike or Mick Wills.

Name: Mike Wilding
Email: janandmike@paradise.net.nz on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 15:16:06
From: UK
Home: Sydney
Ship: Orontes
Dates: 1959

Comments: We traveled on the Orontes from Tilbury to Sydney. Must have been around 1959. I remember it being it's last voyage before being scrapped. We had a pretty rough trip through the Bay of Biscay, nearly sank the ship. Then later in the voyage the boiler blew up. It would have to have been the most exciting time of my life, I loved it. I would have been around 11 or 12 years old at the time. Love to hear from anybody who may have been on the same crossing. regards Mike.

Name: Jerry Ubigau
Email: geraldubigau@aol.com on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 19:08:35
From: Seattle, Wash
Home: Bothell, Wash
Ship: SS Orcades
Dates: June 3, June 6 1956

Comments:   My parents invited me to go on a special cruse from Vancouver BC to Seattle to San Francisco to Long Beach on the Orcades as it went from Australia to the UK for overhaul. The heating was by portable electric heaters. It was cold! Main heating was off. I was the only 17 year old on the ship! My parents had an inside cabin for 2 and I shared one with bunks for four right aft the engine room. What became of her?

Name: Peter King
Email: info@sailingcharters.com on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 23:43:59
From: Malaya
Home: Connecticut, USA
Ship: Oronsay
Dates: 1939 London - Colombo

Comments: My father, Edward King was on board the Oronsay in 1939, probably returning to Malaya where he was a civil engineer with the PWD. It's fascinating to read your guestbook.

Name: Eddie (Buster )Davies
Email: daviesec@iprimus.com.au on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 15:17:58
From:
Home: Shelley WA
Ship: Iberia
Dates: 1968-1970 70-71

Comments: I sailed on Iberia 1968-1970, Canberra 70-71 & Orcades 71-74. I was ships boilermaker or buster alias first refueling officer. I was bunkering Iberia when the tank blew in no 16 deep tank and had to hide for a week as people were looking to hang me. I also was married to an Australian girl when we were in port in Freo married at 10am sailed at 1800hrs left my new wife on the dock in Fremantle. I was most interested in your site and would like to trace some of the engineers I sailed with, or find where they are now. Maybe some of the guys can get in touch, PJ Robinson 4th Eng, John Gray 2frig, Dave Twinning C/E and the rest. We had great times. I still keep in touch with a few other lads here in Aus. Kind Regards, Eddie (Buster) Davies.

Name: William Rice
Email: wpr@gls3c.com on Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 21:49:39
From: Montrose, Scotland
Home: Englewood, Florida
Ship: Iberia
Dates: August 23, 1960

Comments: Great site, Mel. I sailed from Tilbury for Port of Spain, Trinidad, on the Iberia, which was on its way to Sydney via the Americas. I was a young agricultural graduate on the way to British Guiana (now Guyana) to work in the sugar industry. I sailed First Class and had a fabulous time, meeting up with some super folks from the UK, US and Australia. I still have a souvenir album of that trip, with photos of the ship in dock at Le Havre, our first stop before Lisbon en route to Trinidad. I have done many cruises on the big ships of the present day, but I will always remember the Iberia with great affection. By the way, many thanks to certain officers who used to let us dodge through to Tourist Class for better dancing!

Name: Phil Maudsley
Email: philpara@tpg.com.au on Friday, April 7, 2006 at 18:15:37
From: Padiham, Lancs
Home: Sydney
Ship: Strathnaver
Dates: 1954

Comments: I have few memories of sailing on Strathnaver, I remember the Indoor pool awash on a rough day, the ships kiosk, and the lovely ice cream served by a happy waiter. Also sailed on the Fairstar in 67, another fine ship.

Name: Robert Garnett
Email: rjg@netspace.com.au on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 19:24:45
From: Australia
Home: Australia
Ship: Orcades
Dates: July 1965 Sept 1965

Comments: When I was 10, I travelled with my parents to see my Mothers' Parents and all her sisters. We stopped at Adelaide, Fremantle, Columbo, Djbouti, Su, Port Said, Naples, Marselles, Gibraltar & Tilbury.

Name: Edward Rex Palmer
Email: www.epal1979@bigpond.net,au on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 21:17:52
From: Poole Dorset
Home: Adelaide
Ship: Ranchi
Dates: February 1952

Comments: Similar memories to Michael Wilding. Long happy trip as a teenager. Interested in contact with others who were on the same trip.

Name: Carole Chamberlain
Email: compass43@pacific.net.au on Monday, April 10, 2006 at 15:33:54
From: England
Home: NSW Australia
Ship: Orontes
Dates: December,1946

Comments:: I came to Australia on the Orontes in December '46 with my parents and siblings. We spent Christmas on the ship and arrived Melbourne January 1947.

Name: Nick Hairs
Email: nick25148@hotmail.com on Friday, April 14, 2006 at 11:43:51
From: Leicester UK
Home: Cornwall UK
Ship: Iberia & Himalaya
Dates: 1971-1972

Comments: I joined the Iberia Feb 1971 as 3rd cook and left to join the Himalaya finally leaving in 1972. I still have some of the itinerary's and lots of great memories of the voyages. Lot of the names of crew are a bit vague though. Great web site and good luck to you.

Name: Janet Taylor
Email: janetelena1@hotmail.com on Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 16:10:11
From: Swindon U.K.
Home: Adelaide
Ship: SS Oronsay
Dates: April 1958/June 1958

Comments: Left from Tilbury Docks in 58. I was nine years old and arrived at Outer Harbour with my parents Oswald and Elena Taylor and 2 brothers David & Carlo.

Name: Julie Cooke
Email: julie7_1955@yahoo.com.au on Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 12:53:39
From: Lancashire England
Home: Gold Coast Australia
Ship: SS Orcades
Dates: January 1964

Comments: My sister and I travelled with our parents Ken & Dru Wood to immigrate to New Zealand. We met Steve Cooke and his parents Doris & Les and had a great adventure together. Steve and I met again at 18 years and married!! We have 2 girls and now live on the Gold Coast. We were on F Deck and the Cookes were on E Deck. We also travelled with a Jewish family, the Cartwrights. I remember that we were the last passenger ship to come through the Suez Canal. I have always wanted to find pictures of the great ship as I only have one treasured postcard. Thanks.I enjoyed reading the guestbook.

Name: Adrian Garnham
Email: adethevan@hotmail.co.uk on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 05:17:06
From: Folkestone Kent
Home: Newbridge South Wales
Ship: Stratheden
Dates: January 1961

Comments: My family sailed to Australia on Stratheden. We stayed for two and a half years then came back home. My Mum didn't like it out there. Also my Dad, John Garnham served on the ship as a steward before we emigrated. Happy times for a seven year old.

Name: Derek Le-Grand
Email: dl1000@bigpond.com.au on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 09:43:53
From: England
Home: Sydney
Ship: Strathmore
Dates: Early 1959

Comments: I am currently writing a book as a £10 migrant & the benefits to our family by moving to Australia.

Name: Andrew
Email: abro@smcaus.com.au on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 07:49:15
From:
Home:
Ship:
Dates:

Comments: Hi, thanks for your website. Our family took the SS Chusan from Acapulco, Mexico to Southampton, England via Panama, Jamaica, Port Everglades, Bahamas, Bermuda, Le Havre. I am now converting our 8mm family films to DVD with your additional information.

Name: Peter Ellison
Email: pgellison@optusnet.com.au on Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 10:46:16
From: Sydney, Australia
Home: Port Macquarie NSW
Ship: Himalaya
Dates: March 1958

Comments: Travelled on the maiden voyage of P & O ship between Sydney and Vancouver via Auckland, Suva & Honolulu. Absolutely marvellous trip.

Name: Stephanie Lane
Email: claseby@yahoo.com.au on Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 16:58:06
From: Australia
Home: Australia
Ship: ?
Dates: 1948

Comments: I am trying to find out some information on the ship my mother immigrated from Great Britain in 1948. She arrived in Melbourne during October of that year.I am sure it was one of the P&O ships and the only thing I remember her saying, is that it was a single class ship. She passed away many years ago and we know very little about her.Yours sincerely, Stephanie.              Try your nearest Maritime Museum.  Mel.

Name: Sylvia Van Elst (nee Young)
Email: sva30800@bigpond.net.au on Sunday, April 23, 2006 at 18:22:22
From: Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Home: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Ship: P&O Strathaird
Dates: March 31st-May1st 1958

Comments: Emigrated with my parents, Campbell and Agnes Young, and two younger sisters, Maureen and Merle. I have postcards and menus with autographs, but have mislaid passenger list. Would love to hear from anyone who was on this ship at the same time. I was 12 years old and remember the trip well. Travelled via Suez canal.

Name: Nicolet Boult (Eernink)
Email: nickyboult@hotmail.com on Friday, April 28, 2006 at 18:46:12
From: The Netherland
Home: Devon, UK
Ship: Chusan, Arcadia
Dates: 1970 - 1973

Comments: I was a Dutch WAP and was of the same intake as Hanny Verhoef who married Jim Davis. I sailed with Lya Leenknecht and Cootje Ritman. In 1973 I married Peter Boult, a rubber planter in Malaysia, whose sister Pipyn was a WAP on Oriana and Spirit of London and is married to John Le Cornu, an AP on these ships.  Can anybody help with sailing schedules and crew lists?

Name: David Bruce
Email: whfdavid@bigpond.net.au on Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 02:49:25
From: Northern Ireland
Home: Whyalla, Australia.
Ship: SS Stratheden
Dates: 1962

Comments: In 1962, my parents David and Patsy along with my brother Mark, sailed on the SS Stratheden to Australia, arriving in Fremantle 2nd April. Can anyone help with the passenger list from this voyage. Also would like to hear from anyone who emigrated at this time. My father gained employment at Whyalla shipyards as a boilermaker and later with BHP and would also like to hear from anyone who may have worked with him or travelled to Australia on the SS Stratheden.

Name: John E. Vesey
Email: j.vesey@comcast.ney on Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 06:11:10
From: Bexleyheath, Kent
Home: Fremont. California
Ship: Chusan, Corfu, Oriana
Dates: 1950/55 1969/71

Comments: Joined the Chusan in Barrow in Furness as a bellboy right out of Gravesend Sea School and stayed until motor cycle accident while on leave Sept 1953. Joined the Corfu as bedroom steward December 1953 and stayed  for 2 trips to Hong Kong. Left Merchant Navy for some shore time until deciding to re-up in 1969 to join the Oriana and was on her for the big fire in the Solent and the work by. Met my wife on the Christmas cruise 1970 and came to the USA. The Chusan was a very happy ship.

Name: Michael Townsend
Email: michael.townsend9@btinternet.com on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 01:46:40
From: Surrey, then Sydney
Home: Norfolk, UK
Ship: Strathnaver then Orsova
Dates: 29/08/1961 and 5/1/1967

Comments: Sailed to Australia on the Strathnaver as a £10 Pom on H deck, so spent most of voyage with a camp bed on deck (thank you purser!). Honeymoon on Orsova to UK was somewhat more comfortable but found the table tennis tournament in heavy seas challenging as table was never in the same place at the end of the shot as it had been at the beginning. Happy Days.

Name: John Jameson
Email: j.jameson@ieee.org on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 21:30:46
From: Surrey, England
Home: Lane Cove, Sydney
Ship: SS Himalaya
Dates: Oct-Nov 1957

Comments: I emigrated to Australia from England with my Mother and two sisters (£10 Poms), arriving in Sydney on 23rd or 27th (not sure) Nov 1957. My father had travelled ahead to secure accomodation. What a voyage - through Suez canal with (as a 10 year-old) the full run of the ship. Buying trinkets from Indian sellers who tied up against the ship in Bombay while Mum sweletered it out in a tiny cabin below decks !

Name: David Fountain
Email: resolve@gte.net on Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at 09:11:38
From: England
Home: Bermuda and California
Ship: Oronsay
Dates: 1967 world cruise

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Name: Ian Windsor
Email: busintel@optusnet.com.aiu on Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at 21:05:33
From: UK
Home: Sydney
Ship: Chusan
Dates: 1962-3

Comments: I sailed on the Chusan as a Bell Boy on its maiden voyage to Oz in 62 (63?) at a 16 yo. I was looking forward to big tips as a lift boy but on the 2nd night out got into a blue with with another kid & ended up black & blue and scrubbing floors for the duration! But what wonderful memories in an age of relative innocence: Gibraltar, the Suez Canal, Penang then the Australian Bight with 30 foot seas!  As we sailed under the Sydney Harbour Bridge little did I realise I'd migrate here 12 years later. The modern liners still look great in Sydney harbour (if you like floating factories)  but nothing compares to the 'real' ships of the 50's to 70's.

Name: Diane Tucker
Email: arcadia@puzzlethedonkey.net on Friday, May 5, 2006 at 17:39:02
From: Vancouver, BC
Home: Burnaby BC
Ship: SS Arcadia
Dates: Spring 1974

Comments: I was eight years old when my family took the Arcadia to Honolulu on Spring Break in 1974. It was a very rough crossing - we couldn't go out on deck for four days of the five day trip. When we did I did not like seeing water without end on every side. I remember my brother playing the slot machines, and the sound of dishes breaking in the kitchens, and eating in the grand dining room and my Dad having kippers for breakfast; he loved that! The ship was grand, and it's wonderful to see pictures of it again! I have always been under the impression that it was one of the Arcadia's last trips (the ship was continuing to Australia). Is that true?

Name: Michael Poushkine
Email: poush@orange.net on Sunday, May 7, 2006 at 21:30:52
From: England
Home: England
Ship: Chusan
Dates: Feb/Mar 1962

Comments: I had the finest three weeks of my life aboard the Chusan, travelling from Penang to Tilbury in 1962. I was a returning rubber planter and made friends with Hong Kong Police officers returning on leave. I think we must have nearly drunk the tourist bar dry!! much to the horror of "Geordie" the tourist quartermaster. Days long gone but never forgotten.

Name: Marilyn Nicholaidis (nee Hogg)
Email: marilynnicholaidis@hotmail.com on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 at 15:49:41
From: Edinburgh Scotland
Home: Dunsborough Western Australia
Ship: SS Strathaird
Dates: April, 1955

Comments: I travelled from Tilbury Docks to Fremantle in 1955.  We left in April and arrived in May of that year. I would love to hear from anyone who has the exact dates of travel and/or passenger list.  I had my third birthday on the boat.

Name: Robert Wort
Email: rhwort@bigpond.com on Saturday, May 13, 2006 at 21:27:30
From: Ealing W5, England
Home: Greensborough, Melbourne, Australia
Ship: Stratheden
Dates: 12/06/62 to 13/07/62

Comments: As a 9 year old migrating to Australia, I still have many fond memories of this wonderful ship. We left Tilbury docks on the afternoon of June 12th 1962. We missed the meal time as we had to say goodbye to all our relatives so my sister and I ate all the chocolates that were given to us and promptly got sick for being too much of a pig. Our last site of the 'Olde Dart' was the next morning when we saw the White Cliffs of Dover. Our first port of call was Port Said (very hot), then Aden. We sailed onto Colombo and our first taste of Australia was Fremantle. We didn't get off at Adelaide and it was a foggy morning when we arrived at Station Pier in Melbourne. Smooth sailing most of the way except for the Bight. Never got seasick (Just lucky I suppose), but it did take a little while to get my 'Land legs' back when I got off the ship. I loved every minute of it.

Name: Alf Corbyn
Email: shufti@cbsurf.net on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 20:50:33
From: Enfield North London
Home: Plymouth Devon
Ship: Stratheden First Trip after WWII
Dates: 31-03-48 to 06-07-48

Comments: Good to see someone is keeping track of the old ships.

Name: David Fountain
Email: resolve@gte.net on Monday, May 15, 2006 at 07:29:48
From: Palm Springs; Ca. USA
Home: Palm Springs; Ca. USA
Ship: Oronsay
Dates: 1967 1971

Comments: Hello Mel.  What a fascinating site. As 19 -year-old I worked as a u/s, then waiter, then lounge steward on the Oronsay in 1967 for one world cruise. Later, in 1971 I worked my way back to the UK from Auckland on the Orsova.  Wonderful experinces in a passing era.  If anyone remembers me, passengers or crew, please get in touch.  Regards, David.

Name: Rex Cardy
Email: blancorex1@jerseymail.co.uk on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 07:13:03
From: Medway Towns , Kent
Home: Jersey, Channel Islands
Ship: Orsova, Arcadia, Canberra
Dates: 72-75

Comments: I am amazed that this site is so good, I have some pictures of my cruising days, the best years of my life. I would love to meet up with some mates who were on the ships, so if anybody remembers me, please contact me by email. Thanks, Rex.

Name: Peter Ramsay
Email: bra82076@bigpond.net.au on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 20:31:20
From: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Home: Gold Coast,Australia
Ship: Orcades
Dates: Dec63-Jan64

Comments: We travelled as £10 Poms from Tilbury one dark cold Dec morning and travelled to NZ. I was 13 years and it was a great adventure. Our first meal was Duck a la Orange. Very posh. Remember travelling very rough through Bay of Biscay. Hot in Suez, Colombo beggars and boat traders in Egypt.

Name: Valerie Gibbons Colligen
Email: JVColligen@Cableone.Net on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 10:32:07
From: Holbrook, Arizona
Home: Prescott, Arizona
Ship: SS Iberia
Dates: January 1963-May 1963

Comments: My family departed from Long Beach California. I was 19 at the time. It was a terrific adventure which included a typhoon at sea between Hawaii and Japan. I met many wonderful people on the SS Iberia.

Name: Elaine Coleman
Email: e.coleman@blueyonder.co.uk on Monday, May 22, 2006 at 19:27:46
From: Dundee
Home: Dundee
Ship: Strathnaver
Dates: circa 1957

Comments: While looking through some old paperwork I came across a certificate my father recieved for crossing the equator. His name was Walter Coleman. The certificate is dated for Jan 1957. I would be intetrested to hear from anyone who knew my Dad.

Name: Helen Roache
Email: fairsky@aol.com on Friday, May 26, 2006 at 09:28:25
From: Liverpool U.K
Home: Liverpool U.K
Ship: S.S Orcades
Dates: Aug-Sept 1967

Comments: Many great childhood memories being onboard her. We returned to the U.K as I thought for a holiday, but Mum was homesick and wouldn't return. I remember our cabin no: F227. I went to the nursery everyday to look after my sister. I remember the celebrations we had 'welcoming' Neptune onboard as we passed the Equator line. Children has their own meal times. I remember walking into the dining room late at night with my sister to the dismay of my parents, all the tables laid out beautifully. I still have many of the menus, such a happy time. Fond memories. We travelled out to OZ on a ship called Fairsky in 1964 and lived in a hostel in Glenelg S.A . Happy days.

Name: Gae Mullins
Email: gae_mullins@aapt.net.au on Saturday, May 27, 2006 at 21:24:19
From: Perth WA, Australia
Home: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Ship: Oronsay
Dates: November/December 1961

Comments: I travelled on the Oronsay from Hong Kong to Sydney as a 10 year old.  I have menus and an abstract of ships log from Vancouver to Sydney October/December 1961.

Name: Peter Burls
Email: ColPet@TSN.cc on Sunday, May 28, 2006 at 11:55:06
From: Kent, England
Home: Port Macquarie. NSW
Ship: Orontes
Dates: Dec/46-Jan/47

Comments: I was six years old when I travelled on this ship with my family who imigrated to Australia. On this voyage the ship was still set up as a troop ship & male/female family members were separated into dormitories for the duration of the voyage.

Name: Pat Hodges
Email: patricia.hodges2@btopenworld.com on Monday, May 29, 2006 at 05:07:17
From: Bournemouth, England
Home: Bournemouth, England
Ship: SS Strathnaver
Dates: 1957

Comments: When I was 8, my Mum, my 78 year old Nan & I emigrated to Australia on SS Strathnaver. We sailed to Perth in Western Australia & stayed for just over 2 years.  Mum didn't like it very much out there, so she brought us back on an Italian ship named Castel Felici.  Anyone else been on the Italian ship? The whole experience for an 8 year old was amazing.

Name: Michael Wilson
Email: tricia-mike@tiscali.co.uk on Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 13:27:17
From: England
Home: England
Ship: Otranto out, Strathnaver home
Dates: 1950

Comments: I emigrated to Oz in 1950 with my parents & 2 brothers on Otranto. For some reason [I never found out ] we returned to U.K.some 2 years later on Strathnaver. I have the fondest memories of everything. It was wonderful to see the copies of the menu cards. Can any one point me in the direction to find copies of passenger lists so I can check when we actually returned home?

Name: Walter Badge
Email: w.badge@bigpond.net.au on Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 22:08:36
From: Bournemouth England
Home: Port Macquarie Australia
Ship: Strathallan
Dates: February 1942

Comments: I was a member of the 2nd A.I.F. Corps of Signals in convoy with the Orcades and others en route to Burma, Java etc. Java fell and though the Orcades unloaded some troops, this vessel and the Strathallan were diverted to Fremantle thence Adelaide. There I was billetted - there being no camps to accommodate troops in either Freeo or Adelaide. A wonderful time in the home of a family Mundon-Cresdee at Paradise for about two months.

Name: Stuart Cater
Email: poppy13305@hotmail.com on Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 22:30:49
From: Essex
Home: Essex
Ship: Strathmore, Iberia, Andes, & tankers
Dates: 1961 - 1965

Comments: I was an assistant steward and would like to hear from old shipmates (especially those who owe me a beer!)

Name: Susan Hort
Email: susanhort@btinternet.com on Monday, June 5, 2006 at 01:42:11
From: Tilbury, Essex
Home: London
Ship: Stratheden
Dates: 13 March 1955

Comments: My father's friend Joseph Robert Ryan, known as Jos, was lost at sea from the Stratheden on 13 March 1955, somewhere in the Med. Does anyone know if he was found and, if so, where he is buried?  They knew each other from Tilbury. Many thanks.

Name: Bruce Hulmes
Email: Dunhelm.ltd@ntlworld.com on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 06:42:09
From: Manchester, England
Home: Manchester
Ship: Orcades
Dates:

Comments: First voyage in 67 to Australia when I was 12 years old. Should have passed through the Suez canal but the Arab / Israeli war erupted, This meant a detour around the Cape. Have been in love with ships and the sea ever since, still cruising with P&O.

Name: Helen Dixon
Email: niteowl_nt@hotmail.com on Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 17:30:29
From: Newcastle NSW
Home: Perth Aus
Ship: SS Strathaird
Dates: 18th May 1956.

Comments: My mother and her family travelled on SS Strathaird leaving Tilbury UK on 18th May 1956, arriving in Fremantle, then around to Melbourne. Her and her brothers all live in the Newcastle area after arriving there in June 1956. I am travelling to Newcastle from Perth in a few weeks time for a 'family reunion' with my mother and her brothers and families. Her family name was James and there was her mother, father, herself and 3 younger brothers. Any help would be appreciated. It would be a nice surprise if I could get a copy of the passenger list of her voyage to present it to her at the reunion.

Name: Glynis Clifford (nee Royle)
Email: glynisthemenace@hotmail.com on Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 19:50:50
From: Manchester, England
Home: Queensland, Australia
Ship: SS Orsova
Dates: March 1954

Comments: Thank you for a great website.  I am hoping to contact other passengers on the SS Orsova.  My family travelled from Tilbury to Sydney on the maiden voyage of this ship to Australia in March 1954.

Name: Jeff Carpenter
Email: noleenjeff@hotmail.com on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 at 11:59:55
From: Wales
Home: Perth Australia
Ship: SS Strathmore
Dates: 1956

Comments: England to Australia for an 8yo wow.Travelled with grandparents Len and Josephine Smith. Mum and Dad Ken and Joan Lee came to Australia two years later on the Oronsay. Your site brought back some wonderful memories. Thankyou.

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