Neilius

Hallo I recently found this brown pouch.. does anyone know what it was used for? It appears to be made of leather and obviously held something, maybe pens?

 

It came with a possibly silk scarf which has "Orient Line Oriental Cruise by 'Orcades' (28 000 tons) Sept-Oct 1957".

 

 

My father served on the Orcades in the late 1950's. I'll forward this to him and see what he knows. But chances are once he sees it, he'll want it :)

Here's some photos from our recent Oriana trip, including some closeups of Queen Vic as well.

My parent emigrated as newly weds, Had four children then went back to England when my Grandparents got sick. We sailed on the Fairsea in 1961, I was only a baby so I dont remember any of that trip. Ten years later Dad applied for 2nd assisted passage, and we sailed on the Ellinis March 1971. Was a teenageer so had a ball. Took me till last year to convince DH (Wombat50) to go on a cruise. Now he is hooked.

I looked up the Archives and found our imigration details for the Ellinis, but not Mum and Dads original files.

 

Cheers Lesley

Lesley

Do you have any old photos of your trip on Ellinis?

Neil

I managed to get a copy of my parents original application form from 1963 that they submited to migrate to Australia.

It has details of the ship, a pass so they could catch the train to Southampton, medical reports, photos. Amazing stuff.

The actual details might not be as interesting to you as they are to me (since it's my history), but it will give you some idea of the details that are in the Australian National Archives if you want to research your own family history.

A copy of our full immigration file is here:

http://neilius.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-step.html

It cost me $16.50.

The National Archives or Australia website is http://naa.gov.au - absolutely amazing.

Here's the Otranto

Do you mind if I link to that?

There's a lovely model of the Otranto in the Maritime Museum at Southbank here in Brisbane, as Brisbane the destination of her maiden voyage.

I think I'll check that out :)

There's a large (3m) model of Oronsay at the Qld Museum too.

I have compiled a list of ships that transported Ten Pound Poms to Australia here:

http://neilius.blogspot.com/2008/08/migrant-ships.html?tpp=1

I extracted the ship names from the national archives, but I am sure it's incomplete.

If anyone has any extra migrant ships, or links about any of those ships that they'd like me to add, please leave a message on the above link, or post a reply here.

I am ultimately looking for inward passenger lists/manifests with my inlaws names on them and going around and around in circles. Any helpful information would be appreciated. Thanks.

Mick mentioned earlier in this thread about the national archives web site.

If you want to know who travelled on the voyage you mentioned, just go here:

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ResearcherScreen.asp

In the keywords cut and paste the following keywords:

ORONTES DEPARTING TILBURY 19 JULY 1960

Click on search, and you should get a couple of hundred family groups.

Have you tried this?

BTW I've set up http://TenPoundPoms.com - It's just got a few of my own photos and stories but I might build on it if I get the time to make it more useful for others. If you've got some suggestions, please let me know.

I also came out in 1969 with my mum, tho my brother and I were teenagers. My dad had already flown out courtesy of the company he was coming here to work for (we'd previously spent 2 years living in Japan while he was working for the same company) then one year in the UK, then off to Oz. The company said if we came as 10 pound poms, they'd be able to do more for us financially when we got here, like transporting our furniture etc.

 

We had an inside cabin of 4, mum and me and two others, one old lady who NEVER washed herself or her clothes. We ended up complaining at the stink, it was unbelievable! My brother was in a twin cabin with some old guy. Hand basin for washing, if you wanted a bath (no showers) it was in salt water.

 

We were on the Aranda (Shaw Saville Line) and I still have some menus, my crossing the equator certificate etc. I was of an age to have a boyfriend and I was romanced by the photographer on board, a real no-no! ;) Spent a lot of time in his darkroom, hiding from security. (All innocent of course in those days. :p )

 

I have fond memories of the voyage, the loss of ship's stabilisers thru the Bay of Biscay (rough!), the long haul to Freemantle (11 sea days), not wanting to arrive in Oz at all, I was having so much fun.

 

Take care

Marianne

 

Marianne (and others)

have you got any photos youd'd like to share?

Neil

For any of you ten pounders who arrived in Brisbane, I've uploaded some more photos and info about our family's experience here:

http://neilius.blogspot.com/2008/07/back-to-where-it-all-started.html

That Grain Terminal is something else :)

You prob already know and http://www.naa.gov.au but if you don't go there and to the search records link, then in the keyword box paste "ELLINIS departing UK on 29 March 1965" without the quote marks and select PHRASE from the drop down menu at the end.This will give you 143 files with the names of over 143 passengers as there are multiple names in family groups in a file.

Then just copy and paste it into Word. That should give you all the passengers full details.:D

 

If you have any trouble give me a yell, i do history research so it took me 2 minutes to work out the best keyword term to use.

 

Enjoy

Mick

Mick

THANKS!

This is awesome. I didn't realize it was so easy to browse the records.

I've ordered an original of the document.

This is exciting.

Neil

Hope you don't mind me resurrecting an old thread, but I struck paydirt at the state library yesterday, and found some old shipping notices announcing the arrival in Brisbane of our immigrant ship from the UK in May 1965.

Click on the image below to read my blog entry on it, and see larger copies of the announcement.

I've also discovered that the National Archives have microfilm records of ship passenger lists up to 1965, so I should be able to get a list of everyone who was on the ship.

Fascinating stuff.

http://neilius.blogspot.com/2008/07/arriving-in-oz.html

i keep tryin and gettin this video is no longer available

is any 1 else getting this i tryed searchin for the video and all difrent ways might try another link from here.

is any one else havin problems?

Drelix

Try this link:

Neil

Kym

That was great. Thanks for taking the video. If I had known you were there I would have waved.

We were sitting at the terrace bar, right at the back, at the top, in the middle, having a couple of Corona's in the rain. I reckon if we got out a magnifying glass we'd probably be able to see ourselves on one of your photos.

Neil

No offence.. but the Pacific Sun one killed it. This one seemed to slow and drawn out the way they were "singing" it...and they didn't..errr.. "interact":p as much

I liked watching the vid because it brought back memories of our time on Pacific Star when we saw the same performance.

That's why I pestered SkyRules to post it.

BTW - thanks for uploading it and taking the time to split it into two.

Here are my photos from the Pacific Dawn farewell.

 

I'm jealous of Icemaiden's CC cap. Great photo :)

Catching up on a bit of a backlog of vids. This one is Pacific Sun N729 Pacific Pleasures for Kaz (foundlove@sea)

 

 

Cheers

Geoff

Nice one, Geoff.

I felt like I went on a cruise for 5 minutes :)

This is a quick video of the Ekasup Cultural Village tour we did while in Port Vila.

I did it on my mobile phone, and all the music is live stuff I recorded while we were there.

This is a great shore tour. If you get the chance to do it, make sure you don't miss it. And take your camera and video with you!

Did you check out the guy holding the real human skull partway through the video?

I've organized all our cruise photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/magictyger/sets/

Here's some pics I took yesterday when I went down to the harbour to see the Rhapsody. I went a bit crazy with my new camera:)

 

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/561191063HldJEo

 

Karen

Karen

Isn't it a great camera? What lenses did you get with it?

Neil

Great work!

Gee they were a long way apart. You did amazingly well to capture what you did.

Love the music :)

I thought you guys might like some wallpaper / screensaver mosaics of Pacific Star and Pacific Sun. If you click on the image you can get the larger image of it.

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Hi this is the link to our video

Charlie Girl, I was able to view it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0J11nGXQ0

CC doesn't let you embed shockwave stuff, which is why your post appeared the way it did.

Neil

Here's the latest video of Regal Princess.

Sorry for posting twice. I posted a link in the main board as well because everyone here is so excited that she's finally arrived :)

I thought you might be interested in this video I did of Emerald Princess in Venice. I'm going to let the people on the Princess board know, but I thought I'd share it with everyone here too.

It's a bit longer than usual because she was in port for over 48 hours.