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You may be interested in the fact that there is a very fine book and still available about Uganda - "UGANDA -The Story of a Very Special Ship" ISBN 0 9531082 0 1 - Published 1998 by the The SS Uganda Trust (A4 Format 460 pages) (Contact : The SS UGanda TRust, Tarven, Corfe Lodge Road, Broadstone, Dorset, BH18 9NF)

Barrie Sanderson, one of the co-authors/editors of the above book is hoping to have a similar, but not so large,book about NEVASA on the British bookshelves in about November 2008. I will try and remeber to post details when it is available.

(Cruiseluvva: I was probably with you on your Nevasa cruise to the Baltic in the summer of 1968 (Staff Captain). If I remember correctly that "South Wales Schools" cruise had a large number of the Welsh National Youth Orchestra travelling and they "wiped the board" at the usual joint (USSR v UK) concert held in the Assembly Hall onthe evening of the Leningrad call. The hand-picked young Soviet performers were very "put out" and their propaganda effort was a complete failure.

Involved as I was with the Independent Cabin Passengers, which of course included about 80 Party Leaders (teachers), I can assure you, the ICP's booked in many many cases on Uganda, Nevasa Dunera and Devonia, just because there were so many young students aboard. The British India Line had a huge ICP repeat trade on these ships, and I remember one lady at my table on several cruises who had done over 30 trips in Nevasa alone!

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UGANDA, although post 1972, was owned by P&O, she was still run in the manner of her original owners, the British India Line, and continued to have the BI funnel and fly the BI houseflag till the end of her days

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