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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum => Topic started by: Scunner on February 02, 2011, 15:44:47 PM

Title: Fethiye Shipping Lanes For All
Post by: Scunner on February 02, 2011, 15:44:47 PM: (http://www.calisvilla.co.uk/fetboat.jpg)
Title: Fethiye Shipping Lanes For All
Post by: GordonA on February 02, 2011, 16:01:40 PM: If that's the "shuttle service", their cruise will be over by the time they all get ashore!! ;)
Gordy.
Title: Fethiye Shipping Lanes For All
Post by: philrose on February 02, 2011, 16:29:27 PM: Ah "The World" is back then...
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Post by: grizabella on February 02, 2011, 16:56:43 PM: makes my S.S. Uganda pall into insignificance.
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Post by: scorcher on February 03, 2011, 08:12:28 AM: Ah yes- SS Uganda, happy memories! Whatever happened to her?
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Post by: GordonA on February 03, 2011, 14:59:52 PM: Here you go;

After a refit in North Shields (the games deck windows never did close properly again after having Sea King helicopters landing on the quoits court), the ship returned to the familiar relaxed pattern of educational cruising again, but only for a few months as in January 1983 she took the Queen's shilling a second time and returned to duty as a troop ship serving between Ascension Island and the Falkland Islands.
[edit] Final voyage

Two years later, she was laid up, rusting, in the River Fal and despite efforts to keep her steaming was eventually sold for scrap and, rebadged as the SS Triton, taken on her final voyage to Taiwan (no school children aboard this time - and a crew of just 21) where she anchored awaiting breaking.

She was driven ashore by Typhoon Wayne on 22 August 1986 near Kaohsiung, Taiwan and there she lay until broken up in 1992.

Gordy.
Title: Fethiye Shipping Lanes For All
Post by: scorcher on February 03, 2011, 15:33:38 PM: Thanks for that Gordy. Sailed around St Kilda on her using her for a steadyish ( ! ) camera platform , having spent 10 days on the island. Soon after that she hit some lock gates and sustained a nasty wound luckily above the waterline! After using a couple of mattresses or three as bandages off we went to Bergen for spot of welding. Sorry to hear of her undignified last cruise so once again thank you for the info.
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Post by: Steve A on February 03, 2011, 18:09:06 PM: Went on a school cruise in the med in 1976/77 this was my first ever visit to Turkey.We went to Izmir and Ephesus and in those days it was like the land that time forgot !
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Post by: Scunner on February 03, 2011, 18:26:56 PM: You need to go to Uzumlu for that these days!
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Post by: GordonA on February 03, 2011, 18:34:08 PM: Ah well Scorcher, if that's the best excuse you can come up with for your mattress getting wet on a cruise, so be it!! ;):D

Gordy.
Title: Fethiye Shipping Lanes For All
Post by: scorcher on February 03, 2011, 19:32:35 PM: Lucky not to break my pyjamas with all that fuss.....!
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Post by: peecee on February 03, 2011, 20:49:55 PM: isn't she beautiful!!!
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Post by: mary anne on February 03, 2011, 21:44:49 PM: Golly talk about memories I was also on the Uganda on a school cruise I think 1968 went to Madeira Vigo etc for two weeks, only about 14 at time, so didn't really appreciate it , just wanted home to mum!!
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Post by: kanga on February 07, 2011, 23:28:37 PM: I was on the ss uganda flew to venice ON A DAN AIR comet then visited kotor ,dubrovnik ,cyprus, tel aviv , then back to venice ,sea sick for 2 weeks but had a great laugh