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This fine art silkscreen print was produced in an unknown edition size. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The bottom part of the map includes a legend of all the streets, avenues and sights. Translucent Versions were screen printed with semi-transparent inks on a material called 'transparent opaline' which is like a transparent styrene but stronger. The opaque paper versions were screen printed on a heavyweight paper cover stock and also UV clearcoated. Very bright and with every thing you need to know about the Washington D.C. Subway. Condition A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
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ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital in Surabaya, Indonesia in March 2012. Photo by Geoff Bugbee.
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Images of 112,000 ships - there are 143 Images of Troopships relating to 1925/1965 shown in the first section listed below, with another 51 Empire troopships which can be accessed in the EMPIRE section.For the full gallery ships of all categories go to "Photoship Pictures Website"Aba - Asturia 1 & 2 - Almanzora, - Andes - Aragon - Aquitania - Atlantis - Britannic - SS Canberra -TSS. - Cameronia - Cheshire - Dilwara - Dominion Monarch - Dunera - Dunottar Castle- Derwent - Devonshire, - Dorsetshire -Empire Medway - Empire Dynasty - Empire Trooper - Empire Halladale, Empire Helford - Empire Ken, - Empire Test, - Empire Parkeston, - Empire Bure, - Empire Star - Empire Wansbeck, - Empire Fowey, - Empire Pride, - Empress of Australia, - Empress of Britain, - Empire Clyde - Empire Orwell - Franconia - Georgic - Highland Monarch, - Highland Princess, - Highland Chieftain - Imperator - Ile De France - Laconia - Lancastria - Lancashire - Laurentic - Leonardo De Vinc (Empire Clyde 1) -Llangibby Castle - - Nevasa 1 & 2 - Monterosa, - New Australia - Neuralia - Ormode - Orbita - Orontes, - Oxfordshire - Otranto - Orduna - Oransay - Orion - Osmaneih - - QE2 - Queen of Bermuda - RMS Queen Elizabeth - RMS Queen Mary - Rajula, - Rewa - Rhona,- Saga- Somersetshire - Tairea - Talamba - Taliwa - Talma - SS. TRANSYLVANIA - Vienna - Windrush - ZariaIf you are an ex-serviceman and also an oldie you will probably have travelled overseas in a troopship. So scroll down these images and find your "cruise ship". These images have been made available to this website by Bryan Tab Hunter, Roy Nixon, Hector, Mike Smith, Harry Furr, Karlz Glover, Jim MacDonald, Leslie Youdell, Phil Booth, David Armstrong and Ian Girvan for which I extend grateful thanks. Extra information from Derek Lovemore, Ron Flood, Chris Madden, Graham Hibbert, Roy Haskett, Terry Fitzpatrick, Stanley Embling, Ernie Huntley, James Ignis, B J Jayne, Ian White, Peter Smith, Ex L/cpl K.Phillips Royal Signals, John Parsons (RN retired) and Sib Browne.The Army Children Archive (TACA) - This Link will interest former and current army children who will have travelled the world, who, on the one hand, may find that it ignites some sparks of recognition that in turn trigger a string of memories or, on the other, may enjoy the sense of having a rich history all of their own.The Empire Ships section is courtesy of "Photoship Pictures Website"The World War II 'Empire' ships covers a wide range of vessels,
ranging from tugs, coasters, tankers and cargo ships to passenger
liners, both wartime built and requisitioned, and post war reparations
ships. Also included are a few ships which were renamed 'Empire' at
the time of the Suez crisis.
ABA / GLENAPP / MATRONA 1918The ABA was a 7,937 gross ton passenger ship, 450ft x 55.8ft, twin screw motor ship, speed 14 knots, accommodation for 225-1st, 70-2nd and 70-3rd class passengers. Laid down in 1916 by Barclay, Curle & Co., Glasgow for the Imperial Russian Government, work was suspended when the October Revolution occurred and she was taken over by the Shipping Controller. Completed Sep.1918 as a funnelless, four masted cargo ship and named GLENAPP for the Glen Line (McGregor, Gow & Holland). 1920 purchased by the British & African Steam Nav. Co. (Elder Dempster & Co.), she was rebuilt with one funnel, fitted with passenger accommodation and renamed ABA. In Nov.1921 she commenced Liverpool - West Africa sailings. Dec.1929 damaged in heavy weather off Kinsale and towed to Queenstown after her steering gear failed. Jun.1931 grounded at Lagos but refloated and Nov.1931 laid up at Dartmouth. Apr.1933 back in service for Elder Lines Ltd and in Sep.1939 was requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a Naval Hospital Ship. Mar.1940 transferred to the Army and took part in the evacuation from Norway and was then transferred to Alexandria. May 1941 bombed and damaged off Crete and then used variously on Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East - South Africa services. Mar.1944 clearly marked as a hospital ship, she was again bombed at Naples. After repair, she was used on the North Atlantic and after D-Day was used on the Southampton - Cherbourg service. Decommissioned in Jan.1947 and returned to Elder Dempster & Co., she was too old to be worth reconditioning and was sold to Bawtry SS Co., Liverpool and renamed MATRONA for conversion to an emigrant carrier. However, when her ballast was removed, she fell onto her side in Bidston Dock Eventually righted in Jun.1948 by seven locomotives on specially built tracks, she was towed to Barrow-In-Furness where she was scrapped. [Merchant Fleets, vol.20 by Duncan Haws] |
MV ASTURIAS (1)IN HER ROLE AS A HOSPITAL SHIP - Prior to being sold to Japan after WW1 |
HMT. Asturias (2)Built: 1926 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast - When she was launched she was the largest motor ship in the world and also the first Royal Mail passenger ship which had a cruiser stern, her forward funnel was a dummy. She made her maiden voyage on the South American service with Commodore E.W.E. Morrison in command, at the time it was reported that not only was the ship slow but that she suffered from severe vibration as well. Due to the aforementioned irresolvable problems she was re-engined with two Parsons Single Reduction Geared Turbines, her bow was reshaped and she was fitted with new propellers. This increased her horsepower to 20, 000 SHP and for aesthetic purposes as well as soot the height of her funnels was increased. She was Royal Mail's representative at the Silver Jubilee Spithead Review in 1935 for George V and Queen Mary.At the outbreak of hostilities she was converted to an Armed Merchant Cruiser for use on the South Atlantic patrols, her fore funnel and mainmast were removed to improve the capabilities of her anti-aircraft guns. In July of 1943 she was torpedoed in the South Atlantic but was successfully towed to Freetown some five hundred miles by Zwarte Zee. With her Engine Room flooded she lay there for two years and was finally abandoned by Royal Mail. In 1945 she went undertow again by Zwarte Zee with an escort of seven Corvettes she made her way to Gibraltar for temporary repairs before being towed to Belfast for an extensive refit. She became a Government Emigrant ship and in 1953 repatriated British troops from Korea. She underwent further refurbishment in 1954 and emerged in full trooping colours. In 1957 she was sold for breaking but before she sailed on her final voyage played the part of Titanic in the film 'A Night to Remember' at Faslane. |
SS. AlmanzoraBuilt 1915 - 1915-1919 Armed Merchant Cruiser, 1939-1945 troopship, 1945-1947 Government emigration ship, 1948 scrapped. 16,034Memory of - Ernest Graham RutherfordNational Service number 1908762 Ernest Graham Rutherford DOB 6th April 1923 (now living at 13 Walton place, Chesterton, Newcastle, Staffs, ST5 4QY) - Was transferred from KOYLI in 1947 to DLI1947 Set sail from Southampton in the June on SS Almanzora , an old troupe ship had hammocks in), destination to Port Said Egypt to Suez Canal (10day) in transit camp then moved to bottom of Suez Canal. Then on train to top of Suez awaiting for ship to Thessaloniki Greece, stayed there till 1948 transferred back on SS Sithier(??spelling) arrived back Liverpool and de-mobbed at York. April/May 1948.Submitted by: Mrs K Chatterton (daughter of Mr Rutherford) |
RMV. Andes 2 Operating life: 1939 - 1971 - Tonnage: 25,689
- Passengers: 607 |
Andes (1)1913 1915-1919 Armed Merchant Cruiser, 1929 renamed Atlantis cruise ship, 1939-1946 Hospital Ship, 1948-1952 Australia / NZ emigrant ship, 1952 scrapped. 15,620 tons |
SS. AragonLeaving Durban Harbour 1917 Aragon (1) 1905 1917 torpedoed and sunk off Alexandria while trooping; loss of 610 lives. 9,588tons |
RMS Aquitania in The Mersey at Liverpool |
RMS Aquitania in The Mersey at LiverpoolOwner: Cunard Line - Liverpool, England - Builder: John
Brown & Co. Ltd. Clydebank, Scotland
RMSP Atlantis - Andes (1) (1913-1929 - 15,620gt)
RMSP Atlantis, built by Harland & Wolff for the Royal Mail Line in 1913 and served as an hospital ship in WWIIConverted to a hospital ship in 1939, she was initially
based at Alexandria, used in the Norwegian evacuation in 1940
and then sent to the Indian Ocean for the next two years.
She took part in the Madagascar campaign in 1942 and in 1943
repatriated Italian prisoners of war to Lisbon and Germans
to Gothenburg. She continued hospital and repatriation duties
until 1946, was reconditioned to carry 900-3rd class passengers
and used to carry emigrants from the UK to Australia and New
Zealand. Laid up in 1952, she was scrapped the same year.
[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.5, Royal Mail Line]
MV. Britannic ( Leslie W. Youdell)The Britannic (3) - 1930 to 1960 Specifications: For a lot more information on this ship: Click hereFirst page of Passenger List (Karlz Glover) |
A lovely colour aerial photograph of the third Britannic. (Picture courtesy of Kevin R. Tam) |
SS CanberraSS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and was launched on March 16, 1960. The ship was named after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra, and entered service in May 1961.Tonnage: 1961: 45,270 gross tons
S. S. CAMERONIA 1919The "Cameronia" was built in 1919 by Wm Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow for the Anchor Line of Glasgow. She was a 16,365 gross ton ship, length 552.4ft x beam 70.4ft, one funnel, two masts, twin screw and a speed of 16 knots. There was accommodation for 265 - 1st, 370 - 2nd and 1,100 - 3rd class passengers. Launched on 23/12/1919, the installation of the final parts of her passenger accommodation were delayed due to a strike and she had to be towed to Cherbourg for completion.She commenced her maiden voyage from Glasgow to Liverpool and New York on 11/5/1921 and between 1921 - 1924 she made several similar Cunard - Anchor Line voyages. In October 1925 she rescued the crew of the burning U.S. Coastguard cutter ''CG - 128'' off New York and in November of the same year collided with the Norwegian steamer ''Hauk'' in the Clyde. In January 1926, one voyage had to be abandoned off Ireland due to steering gear failure and she was forced to put back to Glasgow for repair. In August of that year she missed collision with the Cunard liner ''Samaria'' by only six feet in dense fog.She was refurbished in 1929 to carry 290 - cabin, 431 - tourist, and 698 - 3rd class passengers. In December 1932 the ship suffered an influenza epidemic and 400 passengers were confined to their beds. It is reported that the ship's doctor made 500 visits a day to his patients. Between December 1934 and October 1935 the ship was laid up at Glasgow, and from then until April 1936 was used as a troop ship to the Far East carrying a total of over 16,000 personnel. In 1936 she was refitted again and on 10/7/1936 resumed the Glasgow - New York service. In 1937 she attended the Spithead Naval Review for the coronation of King George VI and on September 5th, 1939 left Glasgow and became the first British ship to enter New York after the outbreak of war. She made 11 unescorted transatlantic voyages until she was requisitioned as a troopship in December 1940. In January 1941 she trooped 3,000 men to Suez via the Cape and then shuttled between Alexandria and Greece, mainly with New Zealanders. In 1942 she took part in the training and run up to the North African landings (Operation Torch) and in November, took part in the landings. She was hit by an aerial torpedo in December 1942 with the loss of 17 lives, but reached Bone, Algeria. She returned to Gibralter for repair and thence to the Clyde. In June 1943 she resumed service and participated in carrying the Canadian Tank Division from Malta to Sicily and in June 1944 was the largest troopship to take part in the Normandy landings. In August 1945 she was derequisitioned after carrying a total of 163,789 troops over a total distance of 321,323 miles. Laid up as 'worn out' at 25 years of age, she was brought out of retirement in July 1948 and refitted by Barclay Curle at Elderslie for use as an Australian emigration ship, with capacity for 1,266 passengers. On 1/11/1948 she commenced the first of 11 UK - Australia voyages. On 21/1/1953 she was sold to the Ministry of Transport and renamed ''Empire Clyde'' and in March 1958 was scrapped at Newport, Mon. [North Atlantic Seaway by N. R. P. Bonsor, vol.1, p.468] [Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.9, Anchor Line]SS Cameronia (1920–41)
Cheshire (F 18) - Type: Armed merchant cruiser - Tonnage: 10.552 tonsCompleted: 1927 - Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering
Co Ltd, Glasgow
SS. Dilwara - Launched 1935:
SS. Dominion Monarch in 1939 One of Shaw Savill Line's principal ships for many years
was Dominion Monarch, which lived up to her regal status by
having only first- class accommodation for 523 passengers.Built
by Swan Hunters in the late 1930s, the 26,500-ton liner was
designed for a new service from Southampton to South Africa,
New Zealand and Australia.Dominion Monarch had the distinction
of being the last really big British motor liner. A quadruple-screw
vessel 650ft long, with an 85ft beam, she set a new fashion
by having a single mast set well forward, while her two funnels
were aft of midships.The ship had only just begun her career
when the Second World War broke out and she was taken over
for troopship duties. When peace returned Dominion Monarch
was welcomed back to Southampton when she brought in valuable
food from New Zealand.By the 1960s Shaw Savill, worried about
rising fuel costs, decided to have her broken up.The last
commercial voyage started from Southampton on December 30,
1961, returning the following April when all the ships in
port saluted her on their whistles.
Dunera in 1937The 12,615-ton Dunera made her maiden voyage from Southampton to China in September 1937.She was closely associated with the port, first as a troopship for 24 years and then as a pioneering educational cruise liner for seven years.The ship was ordered by the British India Steam Navigation Company from the Barclay Curle shipyard in Glasgow and when completed was chartered by the government to carry troops.She and her sister ship, Dilwara, represented considerable advance on the older troopships. During the Second World War the ships took part in the evacuation from Singapore and landings at Madagascar, Sicily and southern France.Modernisation and refit work in 1950 at Glasgow cost nearly £1m and Dunera continued in service until trooping by sea finished. She still had plenty of life left in her and British India embarked on a bold experiment.The company decided she should continue in service as Britain's first permanent schools cruise liner. During the first year in her new role, she carried more than 10,000 youngsters.Her achievements paved the way for the introduction of other retired troopships into cruising operations.Sadly, Dunera was finally broken up for scrap in Spain in 1967.MEMORIES "SNIPPETS" OF A RAMC MEDICAL ORDERLY, HMT DUNERA 1958The send off from Southampton was always
a nostalgic occasion with military bands, flag waiving with
lots of tears from wive's and girl friends. Sailing down Southampton
Water for the first time I wondered if I would ever see England
again. little did I know than in 39 years I would be doing
this again on the liner Oriana.
Dunnottar Castle - 15,000tons - Princesa Victoria was built
in 1936 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, for Union-Castle Line
as the Dunnottar Castle. She was used on the London (Tilbury)
- round Africa service until the outbreak of WW2, when she was
converted to an armed merchant cruiser, and then later used
a troop transport. In 1949 she resumed her London - round Africa
SS Derwent (3) 1949Ex- Persic, 1969 transferred from Shaw Savill & Albion Line renamed Derwent, scrapped 1971. 13,594tons |
MV. Devonshire Operating life: 1939 - 1967 - Tonnage: 11,275
- Passengers: 1,344
MV. Devonshire leaving Singapore for Hong
Kong 1954. |
TSMV Dorsetshire Built Belfast Harland and Wolff 1920 450 feet long, 57.0
feet wide, 34.4 draft, 2-6 cyl 4SC SA
Eastern Prince later to be Empire MedwayPassenger ship.
Empire Dynasty - Eastern - Dori.EmpireDynasty 9905gross tons, 475length, 64beam, 24draft,
built1944 MOWT managed by Lamport & Holt Line.
HMT. Empire TrooperThe EMPIRE TROOPER, ex CAPE NORTE ex SIERRA SALVADORE, was an ex German 13,942 gross ton passenger steamer built in 1922, by Stettiner Maschinbau AG Vulcan of Hamburg. When built there was capacity for 2,886 passengers. On the 3rd of September 1939, while attempting to return to Germany, and in a position just off Peenambuco, Iceland, the vessel was captured by H.M.S Belfast. During the capture the German crew managed to sabotage the ships engines. Scrapped in 1955 |
HMT. Empire Halladale - Operating life: 1922 - 1956
In 1946 to 1950 this was Empire HelfordBuilt 1915 - 6598tons 440length 53beam 1Passenger Ship.
This photo was supplied by Phil Booth, the caption reads:The Ship that took my Grandad Randolph Shelby to Rhodesia AfricaHMT. Empire Ken 9523tons, built 1928 Passenger ship.
Jim MacDonald has submitted this image: His Bedding Card for the trip from Malta to Southampton aboard Empire Ken in 1953. |
HMT. Empire Ken 9523tons, built 1928 Passenger ship.
1922 S/S THYSVILLEBelge-Maritime du Congo, Antwerp. 8176 tons. |
EMPIRE TEST / THYSVILLE 1922 - picture supplied by Ron Flood
- The Empire Test at Trieste Docks Italy, in 1952 with The
South Lancashire Regiment aboard who were heading for the
Middle East.
Another view of Empire Test - courtesy of www.photoship.co.uk |
HMT. Empire Parkeston in 1930Ex- Prince Henry, 1946 purchased from Canadian Government and renamed Empire Parkeston, 1962 scrapped. 6,893 tonsMEMORIES "SNIPPETS" OF A RAMC MEDICAL ORDERLY - Graham Hibbert There are two troop ships that you hear very
little about, thy Empire Parkston and the Wansbeck, these were
known as ST's (sick tubs). |
Charlton Star - This ship was later to become the Empire Bure.Stanley Embling writes: I sailed on the troopship Empire Bure to Jamaica in late February 1949 from Liverpool.... I returned from Jamaica on the Empire Test I do believe in the early part of 1953Lineage of the ship see below. |
Elizabethville/HMT. Empire Bure/Charlton Star ( Details supplied by James Ignis)History SS Charlton Star, Built by John Cockerill Shipyards,Hoeboken,Belgium
SS Empire Star.Built: Harland-Wolffs, Belfast - Dimensions: 524.2 x 70.4
x 32.3 feet
SS. Empire WansbeckBuilt 1943 ex- Linz, (North German Lloyd), war prize, 1946 renamed Empire Wansbeck, Harwich-Hook of Holland, 1961 sold to Greece, renamed Esperos. 3,508tonsMEMORIES "SNIPPETS" OF A RAMC MEDICAL ORDERLY - Graham Hibbert.There are two troop ships that you hear very little about,
they were Empire Parkston and the Wansbeck, these were known
as ST's (sick tubs).
HMT. Empire Fowey (Picture supplied by Mike Smith) |
Empire Fowey Copy of a card sent by my father to his mother. It is not
dated, but the back states "It is a lovely ship and
is on the maiden voyage after being refitted at some tremendous
cost" I think it must have been sailing to Kenya during
the Mau Mau troubles when my father was serving with the Buffs.
EMPIRE BRENT/CAPTAIN COOKIn the early twenties, Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co Ltd of Glasgow built two very similar sister ships for the Donaldson Line. One was called ATHENIA, and was to achieve a certain kind of fame by being torpedoed and sunk by U30 on September 3rd 1939, the first passenger liner to be sunk in the war. She second ship was to have a varied and much longer career and was named LETITIA.She was launched on October 14th 1924 and completed in April 1925. She grossed 13,475 tons, was 538' long overall, and had a beam of 66.3'. Geared turbines drove the ship through twin screws at a speed between 14 and 16 knots and she was built to burn either coal or oil. Her crew numbered 300 and she could carry 516 Cabin Class passengers with 1,023 in Third Class. She began her maiden voyage on April 25th 1925 and thus introduced herself to the Glasgow-Montreal service on which she was to run until 1939. In 1933 she was given a refit in which her passenger accommodation was modified to take 298 in Cabin Class, 310 in Tourist, and 964 in Third.At the start of World War Two, LETITIA was converted first to an AMC and later to a troopship. Her role changed again in 1944 when she was taken over by the Canadian Government for conversion to a hospital ship. She survived in this role until the end of the war when she was bought by the British Ministry of Transport. She remained under Donaldson management but was renamed EMPIRE BRENT. On November 20th 1946 she was involved in a collision with the British steamer STORMONT which sank.A refit on the Clyde between December 1947 and mid-1948 prepared EMPIRE BRENT for her post-war employment and she began her first trooping voyage to the Far East in July 1948. By 1950 she was being run outward bound to Australia with emigrants and being used as a troopship on homeward journeys as required. During this period of her life the ship might best have been described as an "associated unit" of the peacetime trooping fleet. In June 1951 she began yet another refit, which was to last until January 1952, to convert her fully to an emigrant carrier. Her gross tonnage was increased to 13,876 tons and she was able now to carry 1,088 passengers in one class. She left Glasgow for New Zealand for the first voyage after this refit on February 5th 1952.The latest refit had been brought about by the ship having been chartered to the New Zealand Government in 1951. She was kept under Donaldson management but renamed CAPTAIN COOK and ran from Glasgow to New Zealand via Panama. Still she made the occasional voyage home from the Far East with British military personnel. Between April and October 1955 her itinerary was varied somewhat when she ran seven voyages from Glasgow to Liverpool and Montreal for Donaldson, the route of her maiden voyage thirty years earlier.CAPTAIN COOK'S New Zealand charter expired in the summer of 1959 and was not renewed. The vessel was old, and as no further employment could be found for her, she was sent for breaking by TW Ward at Inverkeithing where she arrived on April 29th 1960. |
HMT. Empire Pride 9248tons, built 1941 Troop Transport.
Empress of AustraliaBuilt as TIRPITZ for Hamburg-Amerika Line by Vulcanwerke,
A.G at Stettin, Germany
Empress of BritainOn the 25th Sept 1939, she was officially requisitioned
to be used as a troop transport. Once she had been converted
into such, she made two trooping crossings from Halifax to
Clyde, each time escorted by destroyers.
HMT. Empire Clyde (Harry Furr)TSS. Cameronia - later renamed SS. Empire Clyde - 7515tons built 1925 Passenger ship.The first large British passenger liner laid down after the 1914-18 war was Anchor Line's CAMERONIA. She was one of a large group of very similar looking vessels laid down at about the same time which included, fir instance, Donaldson's LETITIA and Cunard's TYRRHENIA. Beardmore and Company of Glasgow launched her on December 23rd, 1919 after a construction period of only nine and a half months and she was completed in March 1921.As built, the ship grossed 16,280 tons, was 678' long overall, and had a beam of 70.2'. Steam turbines and twin screws gave her a service speed of 17 knots and her initial capacity was for 265 passengers in first class, 370 in second, and 1150 in third with a crew of 320. She began her maiden voyage on May 11th, 1921 and continued in the Liverpool to New York service until she was laid up in the Clyde in December 1934 as a result of the Depression. The only events of great note in her career to this date were her collision with the small Norwegian steamer HANK in the Clyde in 1925 and her Beardmore refit of 1928-29. Some rebuilding forward was part of this refit and was designed to counteract the ship's inclination to pitch heavily. By May 1929vthe work was completed and her passenger capacity had been altered to 290 Cabin Class, 431 Tourist Class, and 698 Third.In 1935 CAMEROMIA was taken over by the British government for a few trooping voyages to the Middle and Far East after which she was refitted and placed in the Glasgow-New York service starting on July 10th 1936. The Coronation Fleet Review of 1937 provided another short spell of government employment when CAMERONIA was hired by the Admiralty as a VIP grandstand.The ship continued in unescorted commercial service to New York for a short while after the start of World War Two. She was, in fact, the first British vessel to enter New York after the war had been declared. She left New York on what was to be the last Anchor Line Atlantic passenger voyage on November 4th, 1940 and was taken over for conversion to a troopship on arrival at Glasgow. Her conversion was rapid and she was ready for trooping service in January 1941. During her war service CAMERONIA was damaged by air attack in the Mediterranean. She had to return to the Clyde for repairs after having been disabled by aerial torpedo off Bongie on December 22nd, 1942. She was the largest troopship to take part in the allied landings in Normandy and was on the scene the day after the initial assaults. In August 1944 she was present also at the landings in Southern France.At the end of the war CAMERONIA was laid up until she was
needed again by the government in the spring of 1947. This
time she was needed for trooping to Palestine which occupied
her until she was taken in hand by Barclay Curle and Company
for conversion into an emigrant ship in the Australian trade.
Her gross tonnage was increased to 16,584 tons and she was
given accommodation for 1,266 passengers in one class. She
made her first voyage as an emigrant carrier between Glasgow
and Sydney, leaving the UK on November 1st, 1948. She continued
in this trade until being bought by the Ministry of Transport
in 1953 for conversion to a permanent troopship, possibly
as a result of increased trooping demand in connection with
the Korean War. Renamed EMPIRE CLYDE, she became a regular
on the Far Eastern trooping run. Her career as a peacetime
trooper, however, was not long, for as the need for such vessels
declined she was sold eventually for scrap, arriving at Newport,
Monmouthshire in early October 1957 for breaking by John Cashmore
HMT. Empire Orwell - Operating life: 1936 - 1987 - Tonnage:
16,662 - Passengers: 490
SS Franconia.Built 1923 by John Brown Clydebank, - Yard
No 492 - Engines by Shipbuilder |
Georgic (II) 1932 - 1956Length: 712 feet (217.5 m) Beam: 82.5 feet (25.2 m) Tonnage: 27,759 gross tonsThe Second World War began in 1939, and the Georgic was requisitioned for British trooping duties. Earlier the same year the Georgic had been transferred back to the Liverpool-New York service and made five voyages back and forth. The actual converting into a trooping-vessel did not occur until April 1940, on the Clyde. The Georgic was now able to carry 3,000 soldiers. The first use that was made of the Georgic was to have British troops evacuated from Andesfjord and Narvik in Norway and landing them at the Clyde. The next assignment was to evacuate British soldiers from Brest and S:t Nazarie. She also carried Canadian troops across the Atlantic to the Middle East via the way around Africa.In 1941, the Georgic was sailing in a convoy that had left the Clyde on May 22. This convoy was the very convoy, which hunted and sank the famous German battleship Bismarck. After having been left almost unprotected by the attacking British war-ships, the Georgic anyway managed to reach her destination: Port Tewfik in the Gulf of Suez on July 7. When she was at anchor here, German aircraft spotted the British trooper and bombed her. The Georgic was hit twice, and the stern of the ship was set afire by the bombs. The fire reached the ship's fuel, and the ammunition carried on board exploded, thus wrecking the entire stern area. The ship was beached by her captain, and when evacuated the half-submerged Georgic was left to be burned out.Even though the vessel was almost totally destroyed, it
was decided that she should be salvaged on September 14. In
October the Georgic was raised, and two months later the plugging
of the hull was completed. She was towed, stern first, to
Port Sudan where she was made seaworthy. A year later she
had arrived at Bombay and finished hull cleaning and further
reparations. In January 1943, she left Bombay at 16 knots
for Liverpool where she arrived on March 1. Her next port
of call was Belfast. There she would undergo a complete refit,
which took 17 months. When completed in December 1944, her
exterior was much different from what she had once looked
like. The main changes was that her fore funnel and aft mast
had been removed and the forward mast been shortened. Now
every possible difficulty in separating Georgic from her sister
Britannic had been reduced. On December 16, she was returned
to her managers. During the last year of the war, the Georgic
made some trooping to Italy, the Middle East and India. The
last war duties continued until 1948.
Highland Monarch - 14,139tons - Built at Harland & Wolff, Belfast - 1932-1960 - Steel Screw motorshipHighland Monarch was built for Nelson Line in 1928. She passed to Royal Mail in 1932, with the take over of Nelson Line. Highland Monarch was scrapped in 1960. |
Highland Princess 14,100 Harland & Wolff, Belfast 1932-1959 Steel Screw motorshipHighland Princess was built for Nelson Line in 1929. She passed to Royal Mail in 1932, with the take over of Nelson Line. In 1959 Highland Princess was sold to John Latsis, Piraeus, and renamed Marianna |
Highland Chieftain
SS. Imperator - Launched 05-23-1912, Vulcan Shipyards, HamburgGross Tonnage - 52,226, Dimensions - 269.09 x 29.96m ,Number of funnels - 3Number of masts - 2, Builder - A.G.Vulcan, Hamburg, Commisioned 05-24-1913Size: 52.117 gross tons (European); 15,000 tons., Length over all: 277.06 m (269.07 registered), Width: 29.87 m, Depth: 19.20 m, Machines: 4 turbines AEG-Vulcan, Speed: 23 knots normal, 24 knots maximum, Capacity: 714+194 first class, 401+205 second class, 962+1772 third class passengers, 1180 crew. 1938 sold for scrapAs the cost of renovation would be so high it was decided to withdraw the Berengaria from service altogether, on 23 March 1938. For the next few months she lay idle in Southampton dock until 19 October when it was decided to dispose of her. Sir John Jarvis MP bought the ship for demolition on the Tyne at Jarrow for £108,000. The ship sailed from Southampton on December. The furniture and fittings were auctioned in January 1939 and over 200 Jarrow men were employed in breaking up the old ship. The outbreak of war, however, meant that the men were required elsewhere so it was not until 1946 that the remains of the hull were towed to Rosyth for the final process of dismantling. By this time few people were interested in the remains of an old liner that had been built in the Imperial Germany of 1913. |
Ile De FranceThe ship was involved in extensive trooping during World War II. Returned to the French Line in 1947, she underwent a massive two-year reconstruction which modified her profile with the removal of one funnel, giving her a more modern appearance. She was also given some of the furnishings of the Normandie, which had been destroyed by fire in 1942. |
RMS LaconiaOwner: Cunard Line - Port of registry: Great Britain
SS. Lancastria - sunk at St Nazaire 17th June 1940 -The commemoration on June 17, 2005 the 65-th anniversary of the tragedy of the Troopship "Lancastria"The Sinking of SS. Lancastria by Alfred Lockyer |
HMT. Lancashire (2)Built 1914 for Bibby Line, in 1930 converted to permanent troopship, scrapped at Barrow in 1956. Length 502 ft. Breadth 57 ft. Depth 35 ft. 10 ins. Tonnage 9,543 tons, H.P. 6,000.Lancashire took my father to Malta in April 1934. They appeared
to have arrived at Malta on 22/04/1934. He was posted to RAF
Flying Boat base at Calafrna, attached to 202(FB) Squadron.
Lancashire seems to have taken service personnel as far as
India and was out in the far east at the fall of Singapore.
I also have heard it was still in far east service (pos.
Another view of HMT. Lancashire - supplied by B J Jayne.I sailed on the last voyage of the Lancashire, Embarking
with the HQ Ist guards Brigade at Port Said at the end of
March 1956 arriving in Liverpool approx 14 days later, she
suffered a minor engine problem resulting in a short stay
in Grand harbour Malta, She left Liverpool to go to the Breakers
SS Laurentic was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line.Career - Name: SS Laurentic
LEONARDO DA VINCI (Empire Clyde 1)1925 LEONARDO DA VINCI, Transatlantica Italiana
Soc.di Nav, Genoa. |
Llangibby CastleName Llangibby Castle
Thanks to the Stamps of Helena |
HMT. NevasaBuilt to celebrate the company's centenary in 1956, SS Nevasa spent her first few years trooping. However, as National Service came to an end and air transport became more efficient, the ship was made redundant and laid up in the River Fal in 1962 for two years. SS Nevasa was converted to B.I.'s third and largest educational cruise ship at Falmouth in 1964/5. Her powerful machinery gave her a greater range than the other educational cruise ships and her anti-roll stabilisers provided greater comfort. She ran alongside the SS Uganda between 1968 and 1974. However the SS Nevasa was suddenly withdrawn in January 1975 and sent to breakers in Taiwan, a victim of the 1970's oil crisis. |
HMT NevasaThe earlier Nevasa which operated in WW2, see picture belowNevasa (2) 1913, scrapped at Barrow in Furness in 1948. 9,071tons, length 480 ft, breadth 48.1ft |
I had found a tiny (6x4cm) photo in my father's effects, with the wording on the reverse - Ron Flood"Convoy through porthole HMT Nevasa, Red Sea 1940"
Monterosa, later to become HMT Windrush. |
New AustraliaLeaving Singapore for the UK 1954. The SS New Australia rose from the charred remains of a burnt out wreck which had been written off and destined for scrap. She became a migrant ship, transporting thousands of British settlers and their families to a new life in Australia and also, as a troopship, played an important role in Australian military action in the Korean and Malayan conflicts. |
S.S./H.M.T. NeuraliaBuilt in 1912 in Glasgow as a passenger liner for the British India Line. At the outbreak of World War I she was quickly converted for service as a troopship, as the prefix H.M.T. suggests. She undertook passenger duties and educational cruises between the wars but returned to troopship duties in World War II. She survived several U-boat attacks, but was finally sunk by an Italian mine on May 1st, 1945 with the loss of 4 lives.Taking 27,000 troops to the beaches
HMT Neuralia seen on Whangpoo River off Shanghai November 8th 1929 — Shanghai is not on the River Yangtsze as is generally thought, but on its tributary, the Whangpoo.1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment (1922 to 1938)Bombay to Shanghai and home again (1929 to 1931)The 1st Battalion embarked in H.M.T. Neuralia at Bombay on the 22nd of October, 1929, and all enjoyed the 17 days voyage to Shanghai. There were few troops on board besides the Battalion, and they had plenty of accomodatjon and deck room. |
SS.OrmondeOrient Steam Navigation Company - 1917 14,982 tons - "Ormonde" was built by Orient Lines in 1917 as a troopship. She served the UK - Suez - Australia route between the wars. Converted to one-class in 1933. Troop carrier in WWII. Returned to commercial service in 1947, again on the Europe - Australia route. She was scrapped in Dalmuir in 1952. |
SS. OrbitaBuilt by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, launched Jul 7th 1914, 15495tons, sister ship to Orduna. Troopship from 1941 to being broken up in 1950 by Thos. W. Ward at Newport, Monmouthshire.Chris Madden writes: As a small boy, my family travelled to join my Army Father, from Liverpool to Singapore on HMT ORBITA leaving UK in December 1949, and arriving in Singapore in Jan 1950. The voyage took 6 weeks, with one of the four engines u/s throughout, and one other working intermittently. The ship was certaily on its last legs and I think was scrapped soon afterward. It was not painted in normal HMT colours, but retained the black hull, white superstructure, and yellow funnel.To confirm Chris Madden's observation - the RMS Orbita sailed from Liverpool on 4th July 1950 conveying Royal Signals and Guards service personnel to Singapore where the vessel arrived on 8th September having stopped on the way at Port Said, Aden and Colombo . Its final voyage was that of returning to the UK in September 1950 - Geoffrey Garner [Ex Royal Signals} . |
SS. Orontes (Orient Line) Usually on Capetown run. approx 20,000tons - Operating
life: 1929 -1962
HMT. Oxfordshire Leaving Gibraltar - built by Fairfield Govan,
HMT OxfordshireOperating life: 1957 - 1997 - Tonnage: 20,586 - Passengers:
SS. OtrantoTonnage: 20,032tons - Length: 200,6 m - Beam: 22,9 m - Speed:
20 kn - Operating life: 1929 - 1957 Orient Line. - Built:
1929 Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness, England - Passengers:
1,686 - She was built for London - Brisbane line.
SS. Otranto |
RMS. Orduna - (Leslie Youdell) Built : 1914 :Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Another view of RMS Orduna - (Peter Smith)Peter Smith writes: In 1949 my mother and I sailed to Sri
Lanka (Ceylon) to join my father who was in the RAF. I notice
that the photo in your gallery is not of a too high standard
and I attach one that may be of interest. The picture was
taken by my father, flying a Douglas DC3, of the RMS Orduna
when she was 150 miles out from Colombo. We returned to the
UK as a family arriving December 24th 1951 on the Empire Trooper.
SS. Oronsay20,000tons Torpedoed 9th October 1942 - This ship picked up many survivors from Lancastria sinking and returned to England. |
SS. Orion at Gibraltar - RMS ORIONTonnage: 23,371 GRT (gross registered tonnes) - Length: 665ft (202.7m) - Beam: 82ft (25.6m) -Draught: 30ft (9.1m) - Engines: Six Parsons SRG Steam Turbines (24,100 SHP) - Screws: Two - Service speed: 21 knots. - Passenger Decks: Seven - Passengers: 708 Cabin Class, 700 Tourist Class. Later 1,691 One Class (Tourist) - Crew: 466, later 565 |
OSMANIEH - 123890Owner -Khedivial Mail S.S. & Graving Dock Company -
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2Gross Tonnage: 70,327 (originally 69,053) - Net Tonnage:
37,182 (originally 36,038)
QTEV. Queen of Bermuda - (Leslie W. Youdell)Queen of Bermuda, completed in 1933, was slightly larger at 22,575 gross tons and a foot longer at 580 feet than her sister ship Monarch of Bermuda. Service speed for both ships was 19 knots. She had capacity of 731 first and 31 second class passengers. |
RMS Queen ElizabethGross Tonnage - 83,673 tons - Dimensions - 300.94 x 36.14m
(987.4 x 118.6ft)
RMS Queen MaryCunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line) ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967. Built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, she was designed to be the first of Cunard's planned two-ship weekly express service from Southampton to New York, in answer to the mainland European superliners of the late twenties and early thirties. Queen Mary and her slightly larger and younger running mate RMS Queen Elizabeth commenced this two-ship service after their release from World War II troop transport duties and continued it for two decades until Queen Mary's retirement in 1967.Tonnage: 81,237 gross tons
HMT. RajulaBuilt 1926 - 1973 sold to Shipping Corporation of India, renamed Rangat. 8,478tons |
HMT. RewaBuilt 1905 - 1918 torpedoed and sunk in Bristol Channel while serving as hospital ship; loss of 3 lives. |
RMS Rhona - The Sinking - 26th Nov. 1943The ship was part of convoy KMF-26 (Annex) travelling east
from Oran to the Far East via the Suez Canal.
SS. SagaBuilt 1946 Gothenburg-London, 1956 sold to French Line, renamed Ville de Bordeaux. 6,458tons |
HMT SOMERSETSHIREBefore and during the 1939-45 War the movement
of troops between England and overseas garrisons was by sea.
In 1962 it was decided that overseas trooping would be carried
out by air, and the day of the troopship came to an end. Before
the War the best known troopships in regular service were the
British India Steam Navigations Company's Dilwara, Dunera,
Neuralia and Nevasa and the Bibby Line's Devonshire, Dorsetshire,
Lancashire and Somersetshire. They were all ships of rather
more than 9,000 tons gross with a service speed of 15 knots,
designed to carry a complete battalion and a number of drafts
and individuals. In the main the military staff on board were
SS. TaireaBuilt 1924 - in 1952 scrapped UK. 7,934tons |
SS. TalambaShown here as a Hospital Ship - bombed and sunk off Sicily while operating as hospital ship; loss of 5 lives. 8,018 tonsBuilt: 1924 by R&W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd.
SS. TaliwaBuilt 1924 - in 1945 stranded and burnt out Nicobar Islands. 7,936 tons |
SS. TalmaBuilt 1923 - in 1949 scrapped in UK. 10,000 tons |
SS. ViennaBuilt 1929 in 1941 purchased from London & North Eastern Railway, troop and hospital ship, 1945 Harwich-Hook of Holland, 1960 scrapped. 4,227tons |
HMT. Empire Windrush 14651tons, 1930 Passenger Ship.
Another view of MV Windrush in Hong Kong harbour ( David Armstrong ex - Royal Signals Ist Commonwealth Div Korea) |
HMT Empire Windrush - on fire off the coast of Algeria, March 1954. |
SS ZARIAWhen the British garrison was withdrawn from Bermuda, the 4th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment was commanded by Lieut.-Colonel C. M. Edwards.On the 13th November 1905 they were transported by the steam
ship s.s. Zaria and carried back across the Atlantic and down
the Straits to Malta arriving there on the 2nd December 1905.
Empire ShipsThe images available in this section has been supplied by "Photoship Pictures Website"To view an image of any of the following ships go to Old ship picture gallery, click on the image to enlarge and open in new window.To view detailed information on each ship in this section
go to
THE 'EMPIRE' SHIPS - Compiled by Ted Finch.
Letitia BRENT Captain
Cook |
Elizabethville BURE
Charlton Star |
Cameronia CLYDE |
York Castle COMFORT |
Thuringia General San Martin DEBEN |
Potsdam Empire Jewel FOWEY Safina-E-Hujjaj |
Antonoi Delfino Sierra Nevada HALLADALE |
Ubena KEN |
Maiden Castle LIFEGUARD |
Dimboola Hong Siang LONGFORD |
Eastern Prince MEDWAY |
Pretoria Empire Doon ORWELL Gunung
Djati Tanjung Panda |
Prince Henry North Star PARKESTON |
nPRIDE Charlton Pride Embassy |
Scarborough Castle PEACEMAKER |
Rayleigh Castle REST |
Barnard Castle SHELTER |
Thysville TEST |
Cap Norte Sierra Salvada TROOPER |
Linz WANSBECK Esperos |
Milwaukee WAVENEY |
Patria WELLAND Rossia |
Monte Rosa WINDRUSH |
Princesa Victoria, DUNNOTTAR CASTLE,
Victoria - The Victoria |


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The ESRC is based at Polaris House in Swindon, which is also the location of the head offices of several other UK Research Councils and RCUK.
The ESRC's mission, according to its website, is to:
The ESRC was founded in 1965 as the Social Science Research Council (SSRC - not to be confused with the Social Science Research Council in the United States). The establishment of a statefunding body for the social sciences in the United Kingdom, had been under discussion since the Second World War; however, it was not until the 1964 election of Prime Minister Harold Wilson that the political climate for the creation of the SSRC became sufficiently favourable.
The first chief executive of the SSRC was Michael Young (later Baron Young of Dartington). Subsequent holders of the post have included Michael Posner, later Secretary General of the European Science Foundation. The current Chief Executive of the ESRC is Professor Paul Boyle, appointed from 1 August 2010.
Following the election of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 general election, the Government expressed reservations about the value of research in the social sciences, and the extent to which it should be publicly funded. In 1981, the Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph asked Lord Rothschild to lead a review into the future of the SSRC.
It was ultimately decided (due in no small part to the efforts of Michael Posner, chief executive of the SSRC at the time) that the Council should remain, but that its remit should be expanded beyond the social sciences, to include more 'empirical' research and research of 'more public concern'. To reflect this, in 1983 the SSRC was renamed the Economic and Social Research Council.
The ESRC is managed by the ESRC Council, which consists of the Chair (Allan Gillespie), Chief Executive (Professor Paul Boyle) and representatives from academia, government and industry. The Council approves the ESRC's policies, strategy, budgets and major funding.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
at Belvedere Castle (in Central Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.
Our Urban Park Ranger hiking guides will introduce you to the hidden gems of New York City and places often off limits to the general public.
Category: Nature
at Fort Totten Visitor's Center (in Fort Totten Park), Queens
11:00 a.m.
Join us as we share classic stories about nature, animals, and our environment.
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Bronx River Forest Invasive Vine Removal
at Bronx River Forest Island, Bronx
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Volunteer with Natural Areas Volunteers (NAV) at Bronx River Forest to help remove invasive vegetation from the woodlands.
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Central Park Tour: Northern Welcome Tour
at East 106th Street Entrance (in Central Park), Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m.
See the Park's northernmost highlights on this walk from Conservatory Garden, along the Harlem Meer and past the North Woods.
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Advanced Seed Starting Indoors
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12:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Have you started seeds indoors for a season or two but are still having trouble? If so, this workshop is for you!
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Lunar New Year Celebration
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After watching the Flushing Lunar New Year Parade, come to the Queens Botanical Garden for additional festivities.
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at Salt Marsh Nature Center (in Marine Park), Brooklyn
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at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Participants will have fun creating arts and crafts projects using different discarded everyday materials, turning them into new beautiful items. (All Ages)
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Victorian Valentine Workshop
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