Corfu There are some photos of the Empire Ken in my gallery,one was taken in the Red Sea. On 14th. She was bombed again on the 14th. Johan von Oldenbarnvelt. Later she was sold, with the Orduna, to the Royal Mail Line. Her Last voyage to New Zealand started in May 1958, and on arrival in Wellington she was put up for sale, but there were no buyers so she was moved to Bombay and Laid up. In 1939 she was used by the German Navy as a U-Boat depot ship, but at the beginning of 1945 her use had changed to being a hospital ship. The Oxfordshire was built for the Bibby Line and the Ministry of Transport, as a troop carrier until 1962 when she was released back to the Bibby Line who sold her to the Sitmar Corporation in 1964. Unlike her sister the Georgic had a rounded bridge front. Then, in October 1951, the Egyptian government increased pressure on the British and repealed the 1936 treaty. April sailed to the Clyde, where she was converted into a troopship for 3,000 men. Find out more about cookies Her four classes of passengers comprised 366 first class, 280 second class, 64 third class and 60 fourth class, and she carried a crew of 360. 26. She was present at the Salerno landings, in September 1943, and was one of the three hospital ships attacked from the air, resulting in her withdrawal to Bizerta, and was subsequently returned to the Clyde, in November of that year, for another overhaul and to be fitted with a further 100 beds. May 1931, for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London. Ken collided with Englishman Eddie Rigg in the final turn of Heat 18 in a desparate effort to take 3rd place from Rigg. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. She was now owned by the Ministry of Transport, with Cunard-White Star as managers. 4. April 1920 she resumed her Liverpool – Rio de Janeiro – Montevideo – Valparaiso sailings and on 28th. The Orduna was built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, in1913 for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. December on the Round Africa service. Her after funnel was removed and seven 6” and two 3” guns were fitted.. In October 1942 she was involved in Operation Torch, carrying the wounded from North Africa to the United Kingdom. All information gathered from the internet. On her annual overhaul at Liverpool in December 1957 the opportunity was taken to upgrade her by fitting air-conditioning throughout, but by 1962 the writing was on the wall and she was facing stiff competition from more modern ships, and was beginning to lose money for Cunard. August she made a final pre-war voyage to New York and was then hired by the British government and defensively armed with two 6 inch guns and some smaller weapons, painted battle grey, and was then despatched to America at the end of December, where she lay idle for some three months, until it was decided to use her as a troopship. Aerial view of United Nations headquarters with Secretariat building. Escorted by the cruiser HMS Devonshire she was towed, stern first, back to Freetown for emergency repairs, later going on to Calcutta for permanent repairs, after which she took up convoy and escort duty in the Indian Ocean. Empire Clyde. April 1944 was redelivered from the Admiralty and converted into a troopship by the Maryland Dry Dock Company of Baltimore, USA, during which her second funnel was replaced. 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. 19. 1939 German Navy, U-Boat depot ship. 1945 Seized by Allies at Travemunde. Founded in 1766, Christie's offers premier auctions and private sales of the finest art, antiques & interiors, jewelry & watches, wine and more. Cheshire She transported American troop to the U.K. in 1943, in the build up for the following year invasion of Europe, and in all carried approximately 150,000 troops. She commenced her maiden voyage on 5th. 5. July 1929, being completed on 21st. She returned to Liverpool on the 2nd. Dilwara BoxRec.com uses cookies to make the site simpler. Historical performance data for professional leagues (affiliated minor leagues, independent minor leagues, fall/winter leagues, and other international leagues) is provided by and licensed from 24-7 Baseball and Chadwick Baseball Bureau. 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. When she was released to her owners she had sailed about 200,000 miles as an armed merchant cruiser, and another 39,161miles as a troopship, carrying 15,028 troops. December 1930. April 1953 she was sold for £167,500 to British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Limited, being handed over for demolition to W H Arnott Young and Company Limited, Dalmuir, All information taken from website http://www.clydebuiltships.co.uk and http://www.clydesite.co.uk. Giant of a man was Chief Steward. 1. September 1965, and it was announced that on her return, to Southampton, she would be withdrawn from service and sold. 17. She was then sold for scrap in Hong Kong. UPSTATE EMPIRE PROPERTIES, LLC is a business entity registered in the state of New York under the legal form of DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Story of radio from 1906-1955 and the three men who made it happen: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. She underwent further refurbishment in 1954 and emerged in full trooping colours. In1919 she was released by the Admiralty and refitted for passenger service. Congressman Kennedy, 1951, report back from Asia-Mideast tour. January 1942, her stern and after gun were blown right off killing twenty-six with another four missing, presumed dead. 13. 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. 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. 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. I worked by the Ken, Alcantara, Fowey, Orwell, and Sailed on the Andes 3 times, first in 61 AB, i think the Windrush caught fire off of Gib. April 1955 she arrived at Liverpool with troops from Japan. 19. View this object . She made her maiden voyage on the 22nd. 16. 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. Orduna. Dilwara. In 1948, after further conversion work, she became one of the ships used to transport British emigrants to Australia. 12. With a tonnage of 8,418grt, a length of 495ft, a beam of 64ft 4in. \Devonshire For the next three years she was the base hospital ship off St. Margaret’s Hope, Scarpa Flow. 4. 1928 UBENA, German East Africa Line. Steam Navigation Company of London for use on the UK – Australia service. 18. 20. July 1941 by German aircraft whilst ay anchor off Port Tewfik, her fuel caught fire and ammunition exploded in the stern area, she was beached on the 16th. 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. She was handed over in London on the 20th. 25. The following day a battle ensued with a U-boat pack, which the Destroyers won with HMS Westcott sinking the U-581. Demolition at Osaka commenced by the Miyachi Salvage Company Limited on the 17th. January and was given fourteen days to affect temporary repairs, after which she sailed on 2nd. She was then converted and became the Bibby Line’s third and largest educational cruise ship in 1964/5. Asturias [M]an holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. The subsequent explosion and fire killed four crew members. In 1951 she was sold as scrap and broken up at Dalmuir in Scotland. On the 3rd. Empire Fowey. 22. the source of empire for Western Europeâfor England and France and Holland. She and her sister ship, the Dilwara, represented a considerable advance on the older troopships. 1928 UBENA, German East Africa Line. She was later sold for scrapping and sent to Osaka for breaking in March 1959. 11. From 1945 she trooped in the Far East, including the ports of Singapore, Calcutta and Penang, later, in 1956, she took part in the Suez Landings. Rebuilt and converted to oil burning engines and with passenger accommodation now of 234 First Class, 186 Second Class and 483 Third Class. Nevasa When she was built she had three funnels, but in 1947 she caught fire, while undergoing a refit in Hebburn-on-Tyne. Her name was changed to the Empire Halladale and she became a troopship under the management of the Anchor Line until being sent to the breakers yard in 1956. Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. Georgic. Sold in 1947 to Vereenigde Nederland Scheepsvaart and renamed Ridderkerk. Orduna In August 1945 she was to be the Commodore ship of the invasion force which was to re-occupy Malaya, which was not to be. When hostilities ceased the Mauretania made several further voyages, for the Government, repatriating troops, mainly between Canada and Singapore. 20. 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. Lancashire. 'Empire Ken' arrives at Port Said. Replaced by the Devonshire (2) in 1954 she was decommissioned in June of that year and sold to the Charlton Steam Shipping Company of London, a Chandris subsidiary, and renamed the Charlton Pride. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. We went to Cyprus and Picked Army officers and their wives up. MS French hospital ship 'Marseilles' joining convoy. Dim ateb yn well nag ateb anghywir. The HMS Somersetshire was originally built for the Bibby line, but in 1927 was permanently converted into a troopship. This ship was built in 1928 as a passenger liner, named the Ubena, for the German East Africa Line. She then sailed on to Bombay (Mumbai) where she was dry-docked for hull cleaning and further repairs. March 1940 she sailed from New York to Sydney, through the Panama Canal, to be converted to her new role, leaving Sydney at the end of May, with the Queen Mary and the Aquitania, transporting 2,000 troops to the Clyde. The Orbita was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1914. To MoWT and renamed Empire Kamal. Oxfordshire Left Cyprus and called at Port Tewvic where we picked up load of Mauritous pioneer corp and took them down to Mauritous. She was sent to the breakers yard in 1955. She was able to carry 4,000 troops and came under the management of the Orient Line, but still retained her Dutch crew. 1957 Scrapped Dalmuir ---O---Memoirs of Roy Haskett posted December 6th 2006. She was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead and launched on 28th. December she was laid up at Kames Bay, the Isle of Bute pending disposal. In 1939 she was refurbished and accommodation was reduced to 124 passengers. In January 1949 she made her first sailing on the Liverpool – Suez – Freemantle – Melbourne – Sidney run with 1,200 “assisted passages”, however when leaving the landing stage she sustained damage when a rope fouled one of her propellers and she had to re-dock. 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. In 1962 the Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was sold to a Greek ship owner and was renamed the Lakonia and began cruising between Southampton and the Canary Islands, and it was on this route that she met her end. The Empire Windrush was built by Blohm and Voss in Hamburg, Germany and was launched on 4th. 6. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Devonshire. In 1930 she transferred to Liverpool – Panama – Valparaiso sailings and stayed on this route until 1940. Her achievements paved the way for the introduction of other retired troopships into cruising operations. 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. Empire Windrush 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. She was originally declares a total loss, but was rebuilt in Southampton by Thorneycroft and re-emerged as the “New Australia”, in 1949, with only one funnel and made her first voyage in 1950, leaving Southampton for Sydney, Australia carrying migrants to their new home. 16. I know he was on the Empire Pride in 53. October 1947 she was returned to her owners and reconditioned in London by R and H Green and Silley Weir Limited. In 1927 she returned to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and resumed the Liverpool – Rio – Montevideo – Valparaiso service. Empire Pride Built in 1925 for the Leonardo da Vinci, Transatlantica Italiana Soc. Llangibby Castle. 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 would like to get in touch with you. In July 1943 she was torpedoed in the South Atlantic, but was successfully towed to Freetown, some five hundred miles by Zwarte Zee. Great ship with real mates.. Hi Roger I was on Alcantara 1954 as Sen.Eng.Stwd.and Andes 1954,1962, Aragon 1961 various E class,Y class and finally Loch Avon as 2nd.Stwd.then back to T class as Chief Stwd.and left Royal Mail in 1967 when Furness took over and I also new Tiny. May 1921 commenced Hamburg – Southampton – New York voyages under charter to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, who subsequently purchased her in 1923. On 11th. In August 1946 she was paid off by the Royal Navy and taken over by the Ministry of Transport, carrying French nationals from Saigon to Toulon, Dutch from Indonesia to Holland and pilgrims from the Levant to Jeddah. Ken Hubbs played in that league in 1951 but was left off the all-star team because at the time, nine-year-olds were not allowed. Cheshire . November 1955. By 1945 she was in the Baltic, being used as a refugee evacuation ship, rescuing Germans trapped in East Prussia and Danzig by the advancing Red Army. 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. 23. Chitral On 1st. At the end of the war, still attached to the British Ministry of Shipping as a trooper, she went to Bombay and collected 3,668 troops, half being Allied POW’s awaiting repatriation. This ship was built in 1926 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and at that time was the largest motor ship in the world, and was also the first Royal Mail passenger ship with a cruiser stern. 5. At the end of 1947 she began to be used as a cruise liner, during the winter months, to the West Indies and the Caribbean, these were the so called “dollar earning cruises” to assist the shattered British economy.