SS Australis 1967
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The Jenkinson family video on board the SS Australis on our voyage from Southampton to Perth in the year of 1967. My dad Brian filmed it and I have made a DVD copy of it...there is no music or narration at this point in time. I will be making another one as this one isn't really that good. Blurred images, faces etc. Hopefully my next effort will be better :)
Starring Enid, Lynn, Bernard, Margaret & Andrew. Co-starring the neighbours - the Binns family, Pam, Carol and Alan. Also our kitten Tommy.
wow you sailed on Australis with a fine decorated career
And I remember the party when we crossed the equator that you show here, and playing table tennis on a wild, stormy night with some Greek sailors.
We just missed each other! We left Melbourne on New Year's Day 1967, bound for Southampton.
+Joanne “Jo” Fleming We actually sailed out in September 1967 - arriving in October 1967. Still here in Oz and love the place. I was only 5 when we came out. Will always go to England for visits but would never consider going back there to live. Love the sun and heat too much LOL
We did! Of course back then we had no idea of her history :)
And I also remember having to take a lifeboat to get to Acapulco. Oh, and when in Oz we lived in Perth for a while: Yanchep was my favourite place and Rockingham was where my brother got sunburnt for the first time.
+Joanne “Jo” Fleming Hahaha I think we've all got sunburnt at Rockingham at some point in our lives! :D
Left Southampton 7th Feb 67
I also was on this ship in 67, and remember it being stuck in the suez when the six day war was on my parents and i left the boat and did a tour of cairo and the pyramids whilst the war was going on, there where four familys who left the ship and the egyptians kept circling in the harbour and wouldnt take us back too the ship, in the end the four english males outnumbered them and they took us too the ship, the equator party I was dressed as a pirate and I remember the movie cinema that only had zorba the greek and gone with the wind playing continuously lol