A Past Result!
Links on this post SHOULD take you into the OLDER site and see the area they were taken from…. What an excellent result!!! From Tom Herbert…. You will be interested to know that Tom Gilbert, who noticed my name on … Continue reading →
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The Dunera Boys – 70 years on after notorious voyage
By: By Mario Cacciottolo BBC News – 10 July 2010 I found a link in the stats on this site that came from the BBC website to a great article by Mario Cacciottolo of BBC News. You might like to … Continue reading →
Enquiry from Sheila E.
Somehow this post got missed – my apologies here. It was sent in and an enquiry made with the sender back in January 2012. Can anyone help with this? Thank you I was enquiring if there was anyone out there … Continue reading →
40th Anniversary Year for the October ’67 School Trip on SS Dunera
Back in 2007 (?) the 40th Anniversary of a trip made in October ’67 took place. Some details from the old site are below now. 40 years ago this year on Tuesday October 17th 1967 over 800 school kids from … Continue reading →
Dunera from Durban to Batavia in January 1942
Thank you to Mr Mundy for the following email. Anyone else know anything about this time in the Dunera lifetime? Let us know! Just to mention that I sailed on the Dunera from Durban to Batavia in January 1942 (the … Continue reading →
Mutiny on board the Dunera?
I received this email below yesterday from Mr Werner KITTEL with authorisation to let him know if we get repsonses or email. Please do use the comments form at the bottom of the post and let us know if you … Continue reading →
The life of Dr Paul Posener
Posted on behalf of Dr Patrick Vaughan (email: patrickvaughan38@yahoo.co.uk) I am researching the life of Dr Paul Posener, a prominent Berlin lawyer who fled the city suddenly on 23 June 1933. He was Jewish by birth, but was not religious. … Continue reading →
Bernard’s trip on the MS Dunera – June 22nd 1962
I have just finished looking in the loft for a book and I came across my logbook of a cruise in 1962 to the Baltic and wondered what happened to the ship. I immediately thought of the web, went to … Continue reading →
Norman’s trip on the MS Dunera – October 17th 1967
Another post detailing content from one of the founder members on this site! More detail can be found here Thanks for the reminder of what we were doing 36 years ago! As usual I scrolled through it to the end … Continue reading →
David’s trip on the MS Dunera – October 17th 1967
The guy who was actually instrumental in starting this site is David Matthews – aka: David The Letterman! Hello Shipmates, “ I remember”, said David the old man of the sea, as I sit now in the 21st century typing … Continue reading →
Re HMT Dunera in September 1937…
My father was a member of the RN crew for the maiden voyage from Southampton to Shanghai. Mum and I went along as passengers. It was long time ago I do not remember much. To China was nice and peaceful … Continue reading →
Janet’s trip on the MS Dunera – MAY 1963
IBERIAN CRUISE My memories of the Dunera cruise are very vague with only my photograph album as a souvenir. I was living in Leamington Spa Warwickshire at the time. When I was 15, in 1963, the convent I attended in … Continue reading →
Captain Lawrence Marsh on Thursday, February 18
I cannot remember when I went on the cruise, it must have been 1966-67. I am Maltese and we joined the ship at valletta Grand Harbour some time in February, as the weather in the Eastern Med was bad.We went … Continue reading →
M S Dunera 9th November 1961
Saturday 27th March 2010 – Margaret Moore (email supplied) has emailed a very detailed account here!! Anyone else remember this trip? I remember my school trip on the Dunera with great fondness ! The little ditty we had to sing … Continue reading →
Pam Davis on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I was on an Educational Cruise in 1964 on the Dunera. It sailed out of Venice so we had to cross Europe to board-an adventure in itself! I, unfortunately, most remember the Channel crossing in gale force winds, with most … Continue reading →
Rob Lawson emailed on Friday, March 12, 2010
I was on M.S. Dunera, a Mediterranean Educational Cruise in 1967 with Leek High School for boys. [Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and snoopy v the red baron were the pop hits of the cruise] I’m a little vague about what … Continue reading →
…any record of DUNERA’s movements immediately prior to July 1940?
Michael Ayres 28th May 09 Is there any record of DUNERA’s movements immediately prior to July 1940, when she sailed to Australia? I am British but was born in Marseille in July 1939. My parents are long dead, but I … Continue reading →
From Grangemouth, Scotland. Over to Bergen,Oslo and on…
John Wilmot 9th May 09 I was on the MS Dunera 1962, April time i think,from Grangemouth, Scotland. Over to Bergen,Oslo, then to Copenhagen. I remember the helpful crew who helped us make those sheets and blanket into what looked … Continue reading →
Kure, Japan, on the Dunera in 1954
Mike McHugh 23rd May 09 I sailed to Kure, Japan, on the Dunera in 1954. After we left Singapore, the Captain announced that as there was a Typhoon moving down from Japan we would have to go up athe Formosa … Continue reading →
DCPS (Dulwich College Prep School)
John Klemantaski has written in today – 2nd June 2009 The site seems to be very quiet, like dead! Shame, because this is a little part of my past that I’d like to complete. I was on the Easter ’63 … Continue reading →