Daily Echo | Heritage | Nostalgia and memories of years gone by in Southampton and Hampshire

Scythia

3:03pm Friday 28th December 2007

Although one of the smaller Cunarders, the 19,700- ton Scythia had a successful career and a particularly long life span of nearly four decades.

Asturias

3:00pm Friday 28th December 2007

One of the principal liners on Royal Mail Lines' service from Southampton to South America between the two World Wars was the 22,048 ton Asturias.

Dunera

2:32pm Friday 28th December 2007

The 12,615-ton Dunera was associated with Southampton in two distinctly different careers - the first as a troopship and second as Britain's pioneer educational cruise liner.

Washington and Manhattan

2:29pm Friday 28th December 2007

PLENTY of competition for British and foreign liners on the North Atlantic in the 1930s was provided by two US Lines' ships, Washington and Manhattan, both more than 24,000 tons each.

Stratheden

2:20pm Friday 28th December 2007

One of P&O's best known ships for many years was the 24,000-ton Stratheden, which had the distinction of reopening the company's Australian service after the Second World War.

Orsov

2:15pm Friday 28th December 2007

ORIENT Line's 28,000-ton Orsova is remembered as the first passenger liner in the world with an all-welded hull and the first without a mast.

Pretoria Castle

10:01am Friday 28th December 2007

Union-Castle Line's Pretoria Castle, which entered the South Africa passenger-cargo service in 1948, was sold in 1965 to the Safmarine Corporation with the result that she was named SA Oranje for the second part of her career.

Arandora Star

9:58am Friday 28th December 2007

A particularly graceful liner operating from Southampton in the 1930s on full-time cruising was Blue Star Line's 15,000-ton Arandora Star.

Pendennis Castle

9:48am Friday 28th December 2007

The famous fun-ship of the Union-Castle fleet, the 28,582 ton Pendennis Castle, was on the South African service for only 17 years before being withdrawn in 1976.

Rare look at great ship’s final farewell

10:27am Thursday 30th November 2006

At dawn her sirens sounded a long farewell and as the great Cunarder Queen Elizabeth slipped her mooring ropes for the last time a big part of Southampton was lost forever.

TRANSVAAL CASTLE

3:57pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

By introducing the first hotel-class liner, Transvaal Castle, in the early 1960's, the Union-Castle Line brought a new attitude to ocean travel.

ATLANTIS

3:56pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

In September, 1943 cinema audiences were able to watch a newsreel film of the first exchange of wounded British and German prisoners-of-war, carried out by the hospital ship Atlantis with her Royal Mail Lines crew.

WINCHESTER CASTLE

3:54pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

IN ADDITION to peacetime voyaging on the South Africa service, the Union-Castle liner, Winchester Castle served during the Second World War as an assault training ship and troopship, and for a time was code-named Radio Diego Suarez.

NEVASA

3:53pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

British India Line's centenary year - 1956 - was marked by the handing over of its biggest ship, the 20,527-ton Nevasa.

RUAHINE

3:51pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

For many years the 18,500-ton Ruahine called regularly at Southampton on homeward voyages from New Zealand.

LAKONIA

3:50pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

Sadness touched many homes at Christmas 1963 due to the loss by fire off Madeira of Greek Line's 20,300-ton vessel Lakonia.

CANBERRA

3:47pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

IT IS more than 40 years ago that Canberra, one of the most revolutionary ships of her time, left Southampton on her maiden voyage.

NORTHERN STAR

3:46pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

The 24,700-ton Northern Star, was only 13 years old when she was withdrawn for breaking up.

ARCADIA

3:41pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

DURING 25 years service the 29,000-ton Arcadia carried 430,000 passengers and steamed 2,650,000 miles, equivalent to 100 times around the world.

The final break for great ship of Cape

3:38pm Wednesday 31st May 2006

Another old friend of Southampton, remembered with great affection by many in the city, is making that lonely one-way voyage to the breaker's yard.

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