With a site like this there are bound to be times, with the nature of the web, when a website may change / go down etc, or I may have missed a change in the migration of posts and pages from the original version of the site. THAT version WILL stay in place for a while yet to help with some of this!!

Many thanks

I sailed on the Dunera September i think 1958, i was at Polymedia Camp 37 Field Engineers though I was attached in the Royal Signals as radio mechanic, as attached personel we got out of any duties and lived in our own compound in the camp.

When I was demobbed it was the Dunera that took me home. The food was not too good and the ship rolled when it was rough, I was sad to see the ship was broken up only 9 years later, I well remember being on baggage duty and taking all the kit bags out to Dunera,

I was demobbed in October 1958,the voyage was about three weeks so I think it wouold have been September voyage.

We were up high above in Cyprus looking out to Akrotiri and i still remenber seeing the Dunera arrive and the thrill I felt that it would be taking me home,

I am nearly 73 yrs old now but still remember the lads in the signals troop especially “Woody” who came from Grantham. Wonder where they are all now.

Thank you Reg – A great email… Any others who have stories? Please do add them in the site…or send them in through the contact page

School Trip Ships?

Also same goes for the School Trips – I can’t believe that the Dunera was a one and only! Any help on this would be most welcome…

Just feel free to email me any and I will add their details to this site…I will add this to the forum as well!

Many thanks for your time

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When my Dad married, his best man was Ralf Ball also a Dunera boy.

I was hoping that someone might have some information on him or any pictures. Dad did have a book with some pictures in it, but it is long since gone. His name was Wolfgang Johannes Stekel and if he was alive today would be almost 90 years old.

Thankyou.

A big thank you to Alan Morgenroth for some great detective work on behalf of two people, one result has been replied to!

Mr Mark Robins asked for information about his Grandad and Alan came up with a great answer. See the comments here!

Thanks again Alan and we would love to hear how your dissertation goes Mark!

Very best to you

Wonder if that film is still around?

From: Jill McCrisken (nee Kimber)

Any answers about the film??? (Ed)

My grandmother’s companion (since deceased) was on the Dunera as an Austrian Jewish refugee previously arrived on the Kindertransport and taken to Australia in 1940.

He was born (we think) around 1924 in Graz and changed his name to Alexander Shaw later (originally was probably SCHÖNTHAL, SCHWARZ, SHUR or SCHÖNTHAL.

As we are having a lot of difficulty finding his birth surname, is there any way that we can check a passenger list? He later received a compensation or pension for his experience.

I would be very grateful for any help.

Regards J T, Italy

I’m almost certain that my late Grandpa was on the MS Dunera, deported to Australia as a German-Jewish enemy alien. Are there any records that could prove his internment on the ship. His name was Leo Schifrin, and he would have been in his late teens.

Many Thanks.

Mark Robins

Despite the fact that most of the Jewish internees had fled Continental Europe to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis, it had been suggested that some of them may have been agents planted to assist a planned German invasion of Britain. Thus began an ordeal that was to extend beyond the nightmare seven-week journey to Australia.

Full Story Here and following the links through on those pages shows quite a story…