If you provide contact details, we will be in touch about your request within 10 working days. 90.1939. port in the above-mentioned ship. I remember being in Aden for almost 3 weeks, I think, due to the fire on board. The voyage, it took over 8 weeks, and all the passenger ang crew where generally They arrived at Singapore on 6 … Gladys Charles Elizabeth age 9 and David age 6. My mother made friends with Mrs Scott and her daughter who was about the same age as me. My mother Enith Clarke came back to Australia from England on the Largs Bay in 1954-5. I have just read that your family came to Melbourne in 1950 on the Largs Bay. Unavailable per item Matboard Colour Black White Quantity. Ships; People; Ports; Photos; About We left the ship there and went overland by train and caught the Monowai to Auckland.
sailings to Brisbane during the year calling at Malta, Port Said, Columbo, Freemantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.
I believe all the Bay class vessels were registered in the State where the bay was, so Largs Bay was registered in Port Adelaide. A happy bunch .I remember getting up one morning to find the ship had been hit by I was amazed to find a lady of that age going all that way on her own brave lady xHello Susan Taylor Thanks Susan ComptonMyself sister and mother and father sailed on the Largs bay from Sydney to My family left London in late November 1954 arriving in Sydney in mid January 1955. John email My family left Southampton on 8 Sep. 1950 on the SS Largs Bay to Sydney via Suez. En route from Melbourne, she noticed the Largs Bay moored in Valletta Harbour, Malta, where it was waiting to be scrapped.My grandfather emigrated from England to Australia in 1922 on the Largs Bay at age 23. We had an extremely difficult sailing through the Bay of Biscay; very rough with most of the passengers sea sick for a couple of days. We had also lived in Essex, at a place called South Benfleet.Share this ship with your friends and followers online.An initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum Melbourne (where I had my 9th birthday in Myers on 25th October.) LARGS BAY. We also came from Essex having lived in South Benfleet.In reply to Susan Compton I think I may have been on the same voyage. While the journey was fascinating, not necessarily comfortable, for all of us it has ensured that I have no interest in going on a cruise for a holiday till this day , 14 November 2019Am I the only person left alive that came to Australia on the Large Bay on that dreaded 1949 trip, where there was a fire on board and we stayed in Aden for about 3 weeks?
We arrived in Melbourne on 10 October 1949.
My mother made friends with Mrs Scott and her daughter who was about the same age as me. A Government program saw him sent to the Otways via Colac & then on Puffing Billy to Lavers Hill. I was about 2yrs old when we traveled. 14,164: Largs Bay: 1921 I was 10 years old and my family came as part of the assisted migrant package. LARGS BAY. The following year in 1956 at the age of 74 packed everything up and emigrated on her own to australia boarding largs bay on the 13th of january. Lyme Bay was dedicated on 26 November 2007; the last ship of the class to enter RFA service. I was 10 years old at the time and with my parents who were on an assisted migrant package. Destination Port Adelaide, Outer Harbor. And my parent's said it was the best ship they had sailed on, they said they enjoyed
An initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum. Largs Bay. Jervis Bay: 1922: passenger ship, 1928 sold to White Star Line, London, 1933 sold to Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line, London, 1939 requisitioned as Armed Merchant Cruiser, 5th Nov.1940 shelled and sunk by German cruiser ADMIRAL SCHEER in the Niorth Atlantic. But I'm shore I enjoyed the trip Her name was Elizabeth Halliday. Largs Bay was the second 'Bay' to enter service. On 31 October 1941 the convoy, now made up of Ellenga, Glaucus, Johan de Witt, Largs Bay, Nieuw Zeeland Orion and Rangitiki (16698 GRT, built 1929) departed Colombo for Singapore. Elizabeth (Cox) JenkinsMy father Joseph Allen has a pewter ash tray for this ship with the company logo in the middle. We had a particularly rough couple of days coming through the Bay of Biscay where most passengers were sea sick. With my family we left London in late 1954 arriving in Sydney in mid January 1955. The Clyde-built 'Bays' were very similar to their English …