Postcard - MV Fairsea, Genoa, 1957 Reg. No: HT 1059

I and my son where on the Fairsea when a engine room fire broke out, we stood for five days before been towed to Balboa.We where on the way to the UK, jan 1969.
any other passengers would like to contact me at we.willy@hotmail.com

I came to aussie in 1956 we were the last ship through before the Suez was closed during toe war.

I would to be in contact with anyone who was aboard at that time. We had a menu to choose from. I was in a cabin with a woman and her 2 children, when her husband was there I was locked out. As for the smell of bleach, it was probably to get rid of the chlorine, or maybe that was what you smelled. I accompanied my Grandparents. I went to Bunnerong Hostel to get a square meal. English people complained because it wasn't greasy fish and chips. I got their food coupons. My e/mail is open, please have a chat about old times.

I came to australia with my mother and grandmother in 1950 from Naples ,we travelled from Germany after the war,my mother and grandmother were polish farmworkers during the war.

We have this postcard. It was given to my family with our voyage documentation for our voyage to Australia, and we still have it. We departed Southampton on May 15th, 1958 ( a day later than scheduled and I'm not sure why. Mechanical problems?) Sailed through an almighty storm in the Bay of Biscay which is still vivid in my memory, even though I was only 8 at the time. Sailed through Suez just after it reopened. There will still the masts visible above the waterline of ships sunk in the Great Bitter Lake from the 1956 war. Only time we were able to disembark before reaching Fremantle was at Aden, then still a British Crown Colony. Tommies in Jeeps on every street corner. I still remember the excitement of waking early one morning after a long voyage across the Indian Ocean, to see the lights of Fremantle through the porthole on our cabin on "B" Deck. Vivid memories still. I was glad to get off that ship when we got to Melbourne, but there started my lifelong love affair with the sea.

We also still have the postcard. We travelled from Southamton to Melborne.We went about the same time as people above(1958)made the same stops but we also stopped at Singapore. Above us on the passenger list was the Gibbs family. They did rather well a few years later. The reason I posted this message I want to ask did anybody stay at Brooklyn Hostel in Melbourne? Can't find any record of it anywhere.Same cabin problems as Richard Blakeman above with families split up.We only stayed three years and came home on the Fairsea's sister ship Castel Felice.Better cabin and food on way home as we had to pay full price and not ten pound per person.

We had the same cabin problems as Elizabeth Higginbotham, not Richard Blakeman.(mistake)

I came over with parents had my fifteenth birthday on board Christmas and New Year. My mum and I were two of fourteen women in a cabin the men folk were in the cabin next door. Only slept in the cabin spent all of our time on deck. Had a ball. We often wondered while looking over the sea towards Australia what we would be doing ten years hense. My father died exactly the day we left England ten years before. Arrived in Australia January 1958.All the comments above are true including the storms after we left the uk. After arriving in Australia as a family we never looked back.