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1 Fri February 05 2010 - 20:15:45 Fullname: SIMON WHITTLE Email: simonhippo@aol.com Where are you from?: DIDCOT UK What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: SAILED ON HER Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Looks nice Comments: We ( family) sailed from Sydney in 1975 on what i believe was the final trip back to Southampton. After a year in Aus dad, who worked for the MOD decided that this would be a good way of seeing the world! 2 Thu January 07 2010 - 07:37:57 Fullname: simon manson Email: rhyman1971@hotmail.com Where are you from?: england What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: came from the uk to fremantle 1974/75 Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: Hi there .I was a passenger as a child(aged 4 yrs)74/75.I arrived to australia ,Only to meet an ambulance.I had broken my leg on the australis.During massive storm of sth africa.Im trying to find my family list on the passengers column.If you could help that would be greatly appreciated.Cheers simon.Ps i remember the head waiter with the handle bars mistache. 3 Sun December 20 2009 - 08:44:16 Fullname: Ian and Susan Laughlin-Young (Young) Email: laughlinyoung@dodo.com.au Where are you from?: Dapto NSW Australia What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Passenger - Southampton-Sydney - 20 November 1973 Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: Sue and I departed Southampton on the Australis on 20th November 1973 after arriving on the Ellinis 16 January 1972 on what started out as a six month working holiday. We lived in East Finchley then Bromley Kent with Sue working at Canberra House and me for Clarkson Holidays - Moorgate. We had great experiences both on the Ellinis and Australis although Sue is not the best of sailors she survived both voyages and we continue to cruise the oceans of the world. We enjoyed both voyages meeting great people out to experience what the world has to offer and to do it by sea recalls memories that flight does not have to offer. In it's day the Australis was a beautiful ship to travel on and we continue our frienship with the Nightingale family from that voyage. We had cabin 818 for which we paid 489.72 english pound and I retain the ticket to this day. The ship got delayed at Capetown due to the fuel crisis (we got fuel designated for the Sitmar liner - Fairsky) and then again delayed at Fremantle due to fumigation of the lower accommodation decks and we finally arrived in Sydney on the 24th December 1973. It was a great time - memories I always have of being a passenger on the Australis. I have also had the pleasure of meeting up with George (from the purser's office) and his wife (as passengers) on the Pacific Princess and on a few occasions since - we had a great time at the bar talking about the Australis - too good a time in fact - we often closed the bar. Sandra and Frank (Western Australis/Tasmania) if by chance you read this we are still alive and still cruising but on a much diffferent scale to the Australis. Liners are not what they used to be - or are we just getting older - will we end up being a wreck like - AUSTRALIS. 4 Tue December 01 2009 - 02:37:53 Fullname: N Francis Doyle Email: slightlydarkfrancis@yahoo.com.au Where are you from?: Born Dublin, Live in Brisbane. What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Emigrated from Ireland to Australia, 1970. Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: No comments Comments: I suppose I'm only adding my details for archival purposes. I was 7 months old when my family sailed to Australia in March 1970. Our family is from Kildare in Ireland. We flew to England and sailed on the Australis, arriving in Sydney in late March. We settled in Brisbane and the bulk of the surviving family lives in and around the area to this day. 5 Sun November 15 2009 - 14:38:22 Fullname: Laura Jennings (Nee Clarke) Email: freedom0081@yahoo.co.uk Where are you from?: Worcestershire UK What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: sailed from Southampton to Melbourne Australia 10 pound pom aged 9 in March1973 Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: I really Love thise website. It brings back so many memories...The Galleries are priceless!! Thanks to everyone who has shared theirs. I have a blurry one of the approach to capetown. A pity my father didn't take more. 6 Sun November 15 2009 - 12:08:25 Fullname: Linda Colleen Gardner Email: morecambe@optusnet.com.au Where are you from?: Brisbane, Australia What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: I together with my husband and two young daughters travelled to Australia in April/May of 1977 Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: I remember hitting a huge storm after leaving Cape Town, it seemed to last forever. We had our baby daughters cot tied to a bed to secure it. We were not allowed out onto the upper decks and I also remember a few portholes letting in water. I have quite a few photos of us onboard and the crossing the line ceremony. I amplease to have found your site, certainly very nostalgic. 7 Thu November 12 2009 - 13:32:56 Fullname: Jacqueline Gittens Email: Jcqlngitt@aol.com Where are you from?: London What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Passenger to Oz 1970 Reference: Just Surfed On It! How good do you think this site is: Looks great! Comments: I sailed from Southampton to Sydney on the ss Australis in 1970. 0r it could have been September 1969. I was very friendly with a steward called Dimitri Zogos :o) I stayed in OZ for just over three years then went overland for a visit to my family, where unfortunately I met my ex husband and I never went back. :0( Hindsight is a wonderful thing lol 8 Wed September 23 2009 - 01:21:09 Fullname: Susan Hird Email: qwarkus@gmail.com Where are you from?: Victoria, Australia What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Sailed from UK to Australia in October 1976 Reference: Word of Mouth How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: Great site. I loved my voyage on the Australis and this brings back many memories. On our voyage we had a woman named Pat Houston, and she got a group together and we put on a play which was very well recieved. 9 Thu July 30 2009 - 02:45:16 Fullname: Laura Pugh Email: pughsinperth@e-wire.net.au Where are you from?: Originally England What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Passenger 1972 Reference: Word of Mouth How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: Wonderful memories of being a ten pound passenger emigrating to Australia with my mother, stepfather and sister in February/March 1972. So sad to see how she ended up. 10 Mon July 27 2009 - 10:30:03 Fullname: Don Phelps Email: texdon2001@yahoo.com Where are you from?: Houston, Texas What Is Your Connection With The Australis?: Passenger in 1956 Reference: NetSearch How good do you think this site is: Well done!!! Comments: We sailed on the SS America on July 28, 1956, two days after the Andrea Doria sank. We were on our way to live in Hamburg, Germany for two years while my Father worked on a pipeline. On July 25th we were on top of the Empire State Building as the MS Stockholm set sail followed by the SS Ile de France. That night the Stockholm hit the Andrea Doria and the SS Ile de France rescued many of the passengers. The next morning we watched on TV as the Andrea Doria sank. The SS Ile de France returned to New York to deliver the rescued passengers and restock. When we boarded the SS America two days later the SS Ile de France was in the berth next to us and followed us out the Hudson River. Needless to say I was a nervous 13 year old. My Dad saw the SS America go through the Panama Canal for the first time in 1941 while he was working on the third set of locks for the Canal. He said She caused a lot of excitement in the Canal Zone since they were not sure She could make it through the locks. She was the largest ship to go through the Canal up to that point. Thanks for hosting a great website for our old friend. Sad to see her disappear into the sea. I wish I had found your website before 2007 as I was in the Canary Islands in Nov, 2007. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 >>
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