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« on: February 02, 2011, 15:44:47 PM »



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« Reply #1 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!!  ;)
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 16:29:27 PM »
Ah "The World" is back then...

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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 16:56:43 PM »
makes my S.S. Uganda pall into insignificance.

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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2011, 08:12:28 AM »
Ah yes- SS Uganda, happy memories! Whatever happened to her?

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« Reply #5 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.

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« Reply #6 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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« Reply #7 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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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 18:26:56 PM »
You need to go to Uzumlu for that these days!

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« Reply #9 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

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