Name: David Murfin

E-mail: joanapap@optusnet.com.au on Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 22:46:11

From: Birmingham U.K.

Home: Melbourne Australia

Ship: Strathnaver

Dates: 16/01/1958

Comments: Very informative, obviously popular web sight by the number of entries in the guestbook, looking forward to having my name added to it.

Ship: SS Strathnaver

Dates: August 1961

Comments: My family sailed from Bombay in 1961,arrived 13/8/1961 to Tilbury, I was 10 years old and Dad & I were the only ones in the family not to be seasick. Would love to hear from anyone who has passenger manifest from this sailing. Fantastic Site. Keep up the good work.

Name: Ian Chesney

E-mail: ichesney@waterfront.net.au on Monday, May 24, 2004 at 21:54:40

From: Herts, England

Home: Cowes, Vic Australia

Ship: Strathaird

Dates: April - May 1958

Comments: My parents migrated to Australia when I was 15 and my brother was 8, making a new life for us. We migrated under the Commonwealth Nominee scheme and spent nearly two years in Holmesglen migrant hostel, before finding a place of our own.

Name: Sonia

E-mail: the_bgm@hotmail.com on Sunday, September 2, 2007 at 07:14:20

From: Sydney

Home: Sydney

Ship: SS Chusan

Dates: 1974?

Comments: Memory fails me at this point in time as to the exact dates but I recall it was the last voyage before it was to be sold/scrapped. The ship was 23 and so was I. Went from Sydney and around the Pacific Islands and had the time of my young life. Looking at the ship now, it looks so old but then unfortunately so am I. I was in economy class and shared with others but was lucky enough to have a porthole window. Unfortunately lost contact with my fellow passengers over the years, only one I can recall was a young lady from WA who was going to be married after her return.

Name: Diane Pattinson

E-mail: diane.pattinson@tafensw.edu.au on Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 14:37:28

Address: Engadine Australia

Comments: I am trying to find information about a George (Paddy) Gorman who worked for P & O and was on the SS Ranchi from England to Australia in 1950-51. This was the 10 pound Poms era. Any information would help. Thank you Regards Diane Pattinson

Name: Anna Cipars

E-mail: anna.cipars@hotmail.co.uk on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 03:38:40

From: Stockport, Cheshire

Home: Tannadice, Scotland

Ship: SS Strathaird

Dates: November 1959

Comments: My sisters and I travelled to Australia to go to Fairbridge Farm shcool in Molong Australia on the Strathaird. It was a wonderful experience on board ship, especially as an 11year old getting tea and biscuits in bed in the morning. I felt very sorry for our steward who had terrible trouble keeping his trays of food upright when going through the Great Australian Bite. My elder sister and I were two of the very few who were not seasick. Lovely to recall these memories. Thank you.

Name: Betty Williams (nee Blight)

E-mail: betjohn07@hotmail.com on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 18:14:47

Address: Hamersley Western Australia

Comments: I travelled at age 5 years with my parents A&D Blight and older brother in April 1935 from Perth Western Australia to Fiji, Suva. I have a hand-typed programme of an organised Race Game night on the SS Strathnaver with names and witty reference to passengers participating in 6 events. (Very interesting and a few vague memories of a fancy dress evening). My Mother was an excellent pianist and am sure she spoke of be asked to play her excellent music which she had played in the Silent Theatres and Concerts at Fremantle before she married my Father. Memories never to be repeated!

Name: Kylee

E-mail: kmcintosh@customfleet.co.nz on Friday, September 14, 2007 at 09:46:46

From: New Zealand

Home: New Zealand

Ship: Oronsay

Dates:Dates: 1957

Comments: Looking for a passenger list of Oronsay, all trips UK - Australia in 1957, My mother and grandparents sailed on this ship in that year. Last name Freeman. Any help?

Name: Peter Devlin

E-mail: petenanna@westnet.com.au on Friday, September 14, 2007 at 17:13:14

From: London, England

Home: Perth, Western Australia

Ship: Himalaya

Dates: 1955

Comments: I was looking for a picture of the ship to use in a family history. Thanks. Peter

Name: Bhagabat Panda

E-mail: bpanda_29@hotmail.com on Friday, September 14, 2007 at 22:27:19

From: Bhubaneswar, India

Home: Bhubaneswar, India

Ship: SS Stratheden

Dates: 31 Dec 1958

Comments: I boarded the ship from Bombay, India to sail to South Hampton and then go further to New York, USA. I was to join the Department of Poultry Husbandry, University of Maryland at College Park as a graduate student. I have many happy memories of my voyage in Stratheden. Thank you.

Name: Ron (Geordie) Foskett

E-mail: ronfo26@aol.com on Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 05:27:05

From: Newcastle/England

Home: Cumbria/England

Ship: Orsova

Dates: 1963 To 1966

Comments: Sailed on her between these dates as plate house utility steward / winger. Couple of Med cruises, couple of immigrant runs. Couple of world trips. Member of Dago’s dart team who really tried to hit the dart board in the Pig and Whistle on those stormy evenings, shipmates peter (gonk) cowan. Dennis Holmes from Gravesend, Where Are you? Who married an Irish passenger? Possibly emigrated to Australia

Name: David Alexander

E-mail: david@justminiatures.co.uk on Monday, September 17, 2007 at 05:29:44

From: Essex UK

Home: Essex UK

Ship: Orcades and Iberia

Dates: Jan 1963 To May 1965

Comments: I worked as a hairdresser on both Orcades and Iberia, good times, I remember going through a hurricane in the pacific in 1965 going up to Japan.

Name: Stew Chadderton

E-mail: stew62a@hotmail.com) on Friday, September 21, 2007 at 04:05:24

From: Barrow-in-Furness

Home: New Jersey USA

Ship: Just watched

Comments: I remember when I was a kid, watching the ship being built at the Barrow shipyard, Vickers Armstrong. This website brings back many fond memories.

Name: Philip McElroy

E-mail: philipmc@optusnet.com.au on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 13:37:07

From: Kent, England

Home: Melbourne, Victoria

Ship: Oronsay

Dates: August 1963

Comments: I was only 13, Mum, my Brother Mick and I had cabins A51 and A52. I collected the daily matchboxes. I remember lots, but Pompei and going inside the rim of Mt Vesuvius was special. The pursers spoilt us rotten. It is amazing what you remember even after 44 years.

Name: Alan Judge

E-mail: valspalal@judgea.freeserve.co.uk on Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 02:19:18

Address: Bicknor Road UK

Comments: Hello I have very much enjoyed reading your website. I came across whilst wandering around the net .I was a laundryman on Oronsay then Orcades from 1956 to late, ‘61 when I met my wife who was returning to UK from Melbourne, I am a licence radio op 25 yr with the call G0NCW. Especially interested in old motor bikes and was HGV driver since 1961 until retirement last year. I have been searching the net hoping to find an old shipmate we lost touch with a long time ago. I can’t find him in England so have been looking in your part of the world as a lot of us old salts went there to live. Best wishes to you and remember keep it country. Alan.

Name: Janet Green

E-mail: JazznGrace@cox.net on Thursday, October 4, 2007 at 21:32:29

From: Wigan, Lancashire, England

Home: USA

Ship: Strathnaver

Dates: Aug or Oct 1959

Comments: My parents Chris, 26 and Helen, 24 Green, my brother Jeffrey, aged 2 and me, aged 4 sailed from UK to Fremantle in Western Australia in 1959. I am not sure of the dates but I think it was somewhere between August and October 1959. I looked through the photos and saw things that I had very often thought about but couldn't connect. The play room, the dining room, the pool where I lost my bright green bubble swimsuit. It was a very emotional look back in time for me as we left our entire family behind to start a new life. I can't wait to show this website to my Mum and Dad. Is there a passenger list for this journey? I remember being docked in the Suez Canal and seeing traders sending up stuffed camels in baskets. They were all filled with old bandages and rags and had to be destroyed. Anyone else from that voyage with any other memories? I would love to hear from you. What a brave journey my parents made at such young ages. Wow !!

Name: Omnia Holland (nee Khalek)

E-mail: omnia@omnicom.net.au on Friday, October 5, 2007 at 09:02:45

From: Egypt

Home: Australia

Ship: SS Oronsay

Dates: 1961 - May

Comments: I was only 5 when I sailed on the SS Oronsay in 1961. I have a photo of the Captain handing me first prize for a fancy dress competition and still have the soft toy given.

Name: Elly Hill

E-mail: ellyhill@iinet.net.au on Friday, October 5, 2007 at 09:43:50

Address: Varsity Lakes Qld 4227 Aus

Comments: Hello. One of my family members (Julian Rich) arrived into Sydney on the Castel Felice in July 1962..Do you have any passenger details for this ship? Regards Elly on the Gold Coast

Name: Irene Halls nee Jones

E-mail: flatz67@hotmail.com on Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 15:38:28

From: Bootle, Liverpool. England

Home: Elizabeth, South Australia

Ship: SS Arcadia

Dates: March 1961- 4th April 1961

Comments: I think this site is great, what a great way to travel down memory lane but would be excellent to re-connect with fellow passengers. I was 8 at the time, I remember having a fancy dress party, and I got 2nd prize as Cinderella the scruffy one. My dad taught me to swim on the boat. We docked at Outer Harbour and were put into Smithfield Hostel.

Name: Peter Floyde

E-mail: floyde@bigpond.com on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 12:30:18

From: Upton England

Home: Perth Australia

Ship: Stratheden

Dates: Late 1960 (Nov Dec)

Comments: Travelled to Australia as a 6-year-old. Would like to hear from anyone who travelled on the same ship at the same time. Can remember getting in trouble for letting a crying child out of the nursery. I told them they were cry babies and that I should be with the older kids. They just didn’t listen:-) Don’t remember a lot but do remember having a good time. Travelled from Southampton to Adelaide

Name: Martin J Model

E-mail: martinjmodel@shaw.ca on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 15:28:26

From: Harrow

Home: Vancouver Island, Canada

Ship: Orsova

Dates: May 1972

Comments: We had a wonderful honeymoon on the Orsova en route to work in Barbados. We had no idea we had switched to a cabin with bunk beds! A wonderful voyage with memorable crew and fellow dinner table guests.

Name: Jackie Morris

E-mail: geminiwitch_645@hotmail.com on Friday, October 12, 2007 at 20:38:14

From: Hornchurch, England

Home: Chelsea, Australia

Ship: Strathaird

Dates: Feb to May 1958

Comments: Hi, I travelled as a 5 yr old on Strathaird in 1958 with my parents Fred & Audrey as £10 specials. My parents did return to England in the 1970's only to return here this year. Memories are thin on the ground for me but my parents have a signed menu that they have managed to treasure all these years and can remember some of the people who signed it. I am wondering if anyone who travelled and arrived in Melbourne early May 1958 can remember the Morris family and would like to contact us. This is a great opportunity to find others who may have travelled at this time. Have been trying to locate a passenger list via National Archives and haven't been able to access anything. I’m till using British passport and it is interesting each time I renew my residents visa the reactions I get from Immigration, does anyone else have any problems with this? Thanks Jackie

Name: Jacky and Pat (nee) Gordon

E-mail: T-DAVIS@sky.com on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 19:38:39

From: Northamptonshire, England

Home: Northamptonshire, England

Ship: SS Orontes

Dates: May 1958

Comments: We immigrated to Sydney from Tilbury in 1958 and returned in 1960 on the SS Oronsay. On the return journey we met a bell-boy named Donald Shearer from Scotland and would love to hear from him or anybody who travelled on either of these ships. Regards, Jacky and Pat.

Name: Irene Gibson nee Dick

E-mail: sunray@tadaust.org.au on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 15:08:11

From: Edinburgh Scotland

Home: Adelaide South Australia

Ship: SS Stratheden

Dates: January 1963

Comments: What a great site. I am so pleased to see so many photos of the ship. I would love to know how to find passenger lists. I was 15 when we came over and I remember it well, if only my father was not so strict I could have had a better time.

Name: Peter Laidler

E-mail: armourer258@hotmail.com on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 05:29:22

Address: Marcham, Abingdon Oxon. OX13 6QF

Comments: As a small boy I sailed back from Singapore to Tilbury on the Strathnaver in May 1959. My parents were returning from there after working there for several years. I still have a small brass ships bell as a reminder. Nice balmy days I seem to remember but oh so cold back in England!

Name: John Appleby

E-mail: j.appleby81@btinternet.com on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 09:40:57

From: Manchester

Home: Sale

Ship: SS Chusan

Dates: 1970/71