Date Posted:25/02/09 10:49:17 Author:David Evans Subject: Re: HMT or SS Nevasa In reply to:
John Cooper
's message, "HMT or SS Nevasa" on 3/07/04 19:18:39
I was 6 or 7 when we left Liverpool en route to Singapore where my father was to command 19th Signal Regiment. We stopped at Gib, Cyprus, through Suez ( the band played Slow Boat to China - extraordinary what you remember after so long) onto Aden, Ceylon, Penang and finally Singapore ( three weeks in all I think). I can still recall the thrill of nearing port usually in early morning. I have loved the sea ever since. We returned in December 1960 on the Oxfordshire I think where a cold and miserable England greeted a nine year old on his way to boarding school. Flying is not quite the same, nor indeed is the world in 2009.
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HMT or SS Nevasa - 1959 to Hong Kong -- P Hobbs, 29/03/09 19:52:04
Hi, I am researching into the national service of my father in law Anthony Caller who shipped to HK on Nevasa in Oct 1959 as a gunner in the Irish Regiment Royal Artilliary returning around Aug 1961. He wrote an unpubished book of this time. I would appreciate any information regarding this trip.
