{"id":1621,"date":"2020-04-13T19:48:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1621"},"modified":"2020-04-25T18:04:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T07:34:41","slug":"cruising-1950s-style","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1621","title":{"rendered":"Cruising, 1950s Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Text: Barbara Wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: SA Maritime Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems to be the thing to do in 2020. I keep reading\nabout cruise ships – and their disasters! It has made me think back to my\nadventures in 1954 when I went by ship from Adelaide to England. Our ship, the Orcades<\/em>, took a month to make the\njourney, and as I remember, it seemed a very long month. Although we made\nfriends, read books, played tennis and cards, went for long walks round and\nround the deck, most of our time seemed to be spent sitting on deck, looking at\nwhat there was to be seen \u2013 sea, sea, sea. Occasionally land, or another ship,\ncould be seen in the far distance, but most of the time we looked at unending\nwater, birds flying alongside us, and every now and then, a flying fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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S.S. Orcades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course this was not really a cruise. This was the\naccepted way of travelling to England. We got off every time the ship stopped,\nto see what we could see of other parts of the world, and this was rewarding\nand satisfying. Nevertheless after the initial excitement of a sea voyage, life\non the ship was pleasant but not exciting. There was not much except sitting\nand eating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were intent on getting to England. We were not on\nthe ship to amuse ourselves. But we did want to find out about other parts of\nthe world. It was very satisfying to go to Colombo, to go through the Suez\nCanal and the Mediterranean, to see for ourselves places we had read about and\nheard about. But we did not stop long enough to get more than a superficial\nsense of these places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I expect people in 2020 going on cruises would look very differently at the whole experience. They would probably be going shorter distances and staying long enough in each place to make some real contact with civilisations a little different from their own. But certainly my experience of going to England and returning by ship has cured me for ever of wanting to go on a cruise.                                                                   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Elisabeth Anderson’s story about her sea voyage in our Migration topic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


Do you have stories or memories of long sea voyages to or from Australia or even a story about the current dilemma of cruise ships and COVID-19 ? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact us at mldhsgateways@mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au<\/a> or drop into the History Centre at the Coventry Library, 63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling. <\/del><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry, our History Centre is currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text: Barbara Wall Image: SA Maritime Museum It seems to be the thing to do in 2020. I keep reading about cruise ships – and their disasters! It has made me think back to my adventures in 1954 when I went by ship from Adelaide to England. Our ship, the Orcades, took a month to … Continue reading “Cruising, 1950s Style”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaNLq6-q9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1822,"url":"https:\/\/mtloftyhistoricalsociety.org.au\/?page_id=1822","url_meta":{"origin":1621,"position":0},"title":"My 1951 Sea Voyage","date":"April 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Text and Images: Elisabeth Anderson As with Barbara Wall, (read Barbara's story here) the Corona Virus pandemic of 2019-2020 and the saga of the cruise ships have brought to mind for me a long-ago sea voyage. Mine was with my mother and three siblings, immigrating to Australia in 1951. 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