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 Google and typed in M.S. Dunera and your site was top of the list!
My log book is empty except for an entry on the first day.” June 22nd North coast of Holland 34 knots, 251 miles.” That’s it!
I have just read both reports from David and Norman and mine will not be anywhere as detailed as theirs but any way here goes.
My memories start with my parents saying goodbye to me as I boarded the train at Christchurch , which was in Hampshire then. I still have the British Transport Commission chit to cover my journey from Christchurch to Waterloo via Sway. 2nd Class £1.16.09. (This links to the older version of the site in a photo set..)
The Ship sailed from Tilbury so presumably I must have met a coach which collected those youths who were going on the Hampshire County Council’s Young People’s Cruise to the Baltic, which I heard about at my local youth club.
