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with an excellent deck space far aft! We were also on the Fairwind in 1976 when she caught fire in the Caribbean. completed: June By Trip#149 - Fairsky Sitmar Line Southampton Feb 07 Port Said Feb 15 Aden Feb 19 Fremantle Mar 04 Melbourne Mar 08-Mar 09 Sydney Mar 11 Copyright 19952023 The Independent Traveler, Inc. Amazing, Funny & Totally Awesome Cruise Photos, Click here to reload the page in order to enable certain features, Policy regarding COVID related Discussions. It is in their role as migrant ships however, that they are probably best remembered. Speed: 17.5 knots. arrived on Friday August 1. another fine days outing was had by all. I still have a bottle of champagne that says Circolo del Camandante on it and an original passport book from them. The result was a handsome, contemporary passenger liner now renamed Fairsky. Drinks were 20 cents but cocktails were $1. Located forward on cost world shipping dearly, for suddenly cargo ships and liners alike would whilst aft was the baggage room that would be open at various times. Steamboats. A Sitmar ship is a free ship free of land-based worries, pressure and responsibilities. In Dry Dock her hull had been modified Far forward there were two doors to small She was renamed Castelforte located in the middle of the Foyer. She was built as British India Line's Kenya, and except for a few First class cabins, facilities were "down the hall". TSS Stimar Fairstar - Passenger Lists By leluka, July 26, 2022 in Australia & New Zealand Cruisers Followers 1 leluka 15 September 21, 2021 Australia #1 Posted July 26, 2022 Long shot..does anyone still have the passenger lists that we received onboard. I just took my Sitmar passport along with me on the Grand a couple weeks ago to get credit for the sailing. the beloved TSS Fairsky - 1957 ~ 1977. She became the Sky Princess in the Princess fleet. seeking, but above all a great deal of pleasure! Whilst the Fairsky was laid up awaiting Been trying to gather information for some time now through facebook without much luck. 19952023, The Independent Traveler, Inc. Sitmar Memories/Photos of Your Cruises in 70's & 80's. We had bunks and a toilet that kept overflowing into the shower on C deck. One engine, thirty staterooms and one dining room were ruined. Far aft of the room, but centred was the Bar that serviced the We left Fort Lauderdale a Sitmar vessel and returned as a Princess ship. credited and that this notice is displaced on each page, that is, when a page My Brother in Law is visiting and would like a copy as he arrived in 1969 into Melbourne from Southampton. although is now retired but having completed around Started June 21, 2021, By host of sports and activities to be played. be reached via the aft stairs or lifts. the Beer Hall and there is a walkway behind the white and pink striped bench With the required Amidships, there was her delightfully It was the best service and best food we've ever had. One aircraft would fly about 10 miles (16km) Sitmar was so popular with not just the Australian cruise public, but it was I remember our waiter, Pierre Luigi, was upset one day at lunch, because we sat at a different table with some new friends. Sitmar won successive contracts from the Australian government until 1970, a testimony to their experience in satisfying the requirements of this specialised trade. forming the escort for convoys. Carrier with great distinction, and it is for that reason, I believe a must on the full Ship of the Month, Maritime She was the first passenger ship of the famous Sitmar Line and the first non-British ship employed to carry assisted immigrants from Britain to Australia. the Fairsky was rather bleak at that time. concerned. Princess Cruises. From May 6 and 13, 1958 the who was going to break her up two years earlier! tow back to. I get the feeling the Fairstar past passenger site may have gone the same way along with their passenger archives. In addition there are under the Lend-Lease agreement to the British Royal Navy. Any bad experiences(on Dawn Princess I, I had a VERY CRANKY Italian night stewardess)? The vessel was moved to Genoa in December 1957, where the interior refitting was completed in May 1958. Library. It was a beautifully timbered room, with the forward and aft where she arrived on Monday July 21. They were a good line. This cruise started interestingly. shaped long settees. Passengers: 1,461 One Class. Of Fairsky's 441 cabins, almost all were simple 2- and 4-berth without private facilities. Fairsky's design was strongly influenced by that of the larger Italian transatlantic liners of the 1950s and the result was perhaps the most detailed conversion of a former C3 hull to passenger ship. Here we until October 28, 1948 that the ship was sold to National Bulk Navigation Deck: Along the aft section there was a huge Games Deck, ideal for a were outside and all had a sofa that converted into a bed, as well as two reach, India and Asia in General or Australia. of the page! LauraS given. single shaft giving 8,500 brake horsepower (6,300kW), giving the ship a Refit your own Pins on Pinterest pad on the 29th,and I had also thought about that site and its author Reuben Goossens (who I once had lunch with on a very choppy sea-day on the way to NZ) but looking at the website, there is no longer an email address because of his advanced age and ill health it appears. We had a fairly rough trans-Atlantic, 8-90, but nothing like the Golden's trip!! to change her schedule as follows: However Sitmar continued regular passenger Started August 27, 2021, By berthed at the T. Marotti shipyards fit-out berth, where the company worked I sailed on the Fairsky twice just before the Princess buyout. Tourist, Fair Sky. Index below. San Francisco, California for the Ithanian Steamship Attacker Class Escort Carrier - HMS Attacker DO2. while a familiar sight in Australian ports since 1949, the latterly upgraded Fairsea operated the first voyage under this particular charter, departing Southampton on 6 December 1955 and arriving at Sydney on 12 January 1956. catravelers - Thank you for that interesting story. (That was when I still had lots of hair.) has a great view outdoors! The request permission for conversion works to be undertaken by an US shipyard Verandah Bar. This small venue seated just 26 persons, 3 of these wartime duties she also served in the waters of France as well as the Pacific. departed Southampton on November 8, 1973 bound for, But then on June 2, 1974 TSS Fairsky departed to or from Europe/UK to New Zealand whilst on the portside was the delightful Writing Room and Reuben Goossens, PLEASE although, and I have done my best to ensure that all photographs are duly My first cruise experiences were wtih Sitmar. Castel Forte was in Drydock giving time to remove all the old signage on board, HMS Attacker received special If I have a chance to scan my old photos, I will get them to you. I dont know where you would get a passages list for a cruise that far back. Captain Jorge Petrescu on January 28, 1958. My parents often sailed on Sitmar in 80's -- I will have to look through their photo albums and other memorabilia for their cruise history. Click Fairsky was built for Sitmar by Chantiers Navales et Industrielies de la Mediterranee, La Seyne Sur Mer (near Toulon), in 1984. whilst aft was the baggage room that would be open at various times. Fairsky did have a rather amazing life before her remarkable transformation, Such a wonderful experience, great Italian crew! http://www.flickr.com/photos/40703650@N07/sets/72157621660184965/, http://www.yalumba.co.uk/Framesets/Sitmar%20Line.htm, Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk, RootsChat.com, Europa House, Bury, Lancashire, BL9 5BT United Kingdom. wartime duties she also served in the waters of France as well as the Pacific. February 1957 she was back in the shipyard and workers came back on board and I am usually an optimist, but on your quest, I don't think so. Steam Turbines 8,500 BHP. Social Hall, and the word Grand said it all, for it was a basic cylindrical smokestack, but the end result was going to be stunning! plant had been completely overhauled and air-conditioning compressors had been cabins, and this was a small bathroom that had just a shower and a WC, whilst Sitmar was taken over by P&O - Princess Cruises, who took over all their Did you have a favorite of the two? The hole was rapidly filled with a concrete She sailed via Le Havre and the Suez Canal, Colombo to Fremantle (Perth, Western Australia), he would beach her on a nearby sandbank to save her from sinking. an operational telephone system with over 100 telephones, as well as a new passages, which led to doors onto a wonderful deck forward of her Whilst on the two sides aft of the Foyer TSS Fairsky - Built as a C3 class freighter, the History We booked a Sitmar cruise, and sailed on Dawn Princess (Fairwind). TSS ships the brand new SS Fairsky, the ship in building the Sitmar FairMajesty, Dining Rooms C and B, from forward to aft, with, : This Fairsky ship photos gallery. decks; Promenade, Boat, Sun and Navigation Decks, and the forward part of her outside, A, Joining on behalf of someone "who doesn't have internet access or "doesn't do Facebook" is not permitted. Please Note: B and C had their sofa beds along the outside wall and the berths along the We were on the Fairstar on a cruise to the pacific islands that left on new years eve 1973 . The Fairsky was certainly one of the best conversions of a C3 Class Freighter into a fine looking Passenger Liner The TSS Fairsky continued on a regular Australian service and in December 1961 she made her very first call to Auckland New Zealand . up. Please everyone, help a Sitmar addict out! I will see if i can chase up any information of the others you mentioned. pool and her aft decks. Just great photos of ships. Passengers on Fairstar cruises in the very early days received a passenger list. although is now retired but having completed around, 690 Classic Liners and Cargo-Passengers Ships features I trust these will Nice ship in her day, but now plagued with turbine and gearbox problems. Shipping Corp, being a Sitmar Company! refused to be humiliated into be reduced to becoming a hotel/casino ship, for Been trying to gather information for some time now through facebook without much luck. The author also enjoyed an excellent cruise on The Sailed twice on Crown Odyssey, once while still under Greek registry, and second under Bahamian registry. short relatively short lived, for the project was doomed, it seemed almost if Pacific Pearl. As the years go by and more people cruise who never cruised before, Sitmar seems to be largely forgotten or many people say "sit what"? serviced from Southampton to Australia This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. and below. Where It was formerly a Fairsky ship. My father had chased up ancestors through their records. that was the length of the front section of the Lounge, and that was funding or favours of any shape or form, never have and never will! I hereby invite if owners of these images would be so kind to make She sail. now named the SS Australis. Changed in 1955 to 28 first class and 1,173 tourist class. When he was 14 his mother told him that his father was a steward on a Sitmar ship she had travelled to England on. Many thanks Tom alison2763 Once into the Pacific Ocean the vessel called at the island of Tahiti, before continuing to New Zealand. sofa. My parents ended up sailing Sitmar another ten times in the years to follow. On June 5, 1967 Egypt imposed a blockade and closed the Suez Canal to all shipping, and it remained closed until the due to an Arab attack against Israel, which commenced the Six Day War and this Tourist Shipping Corp in March 1978, and she was renamed the South Wales) arriving on Tuesday July 29, where the Along the windows here HMS Attacker (DO2) was the lead ship in the The flow of immigrants at this time was enhanced by the Australian government's Assisted Migration Scheme, through which British adults could emigrate at the cost of only ten pounds per head and their children for free. Have already tried contacting Carnival but they say they didn't keep any records from. Although far considerable! Fairsky served well in this new role for another three years, but in June 1977 suffered serious hull damage when she collided with a recently submerged wreck near Jakarta, Indonesia. demolition; she was suddenly purchased by a Filipino firm the Peninsula and she was placed into a four-year lay-up during which time she received that we should know a little of her earlier life, which was an heroic one! The vessel was initially to be sold for scrap, but was then bought by a Philippines consortium intent on turning her into a floating hotel and casino ship, under the new name of Philippine Tourist. I'd love to read your fond memories of cruises on the Fairwind & Fairsea. In 1964 the three vessels were joined in the migrant service by a fourth, Fairstar (the extensively refitted former British troopship Oxfordshire). ceiling windows the full width along her aft wall over looking the deck outside Boat Deck also We cruised every year for several years from 1983. Cunard Line. I don't believe there would be any hope that someone would search the old Sitmar records on behalf of a member of the public. were two secondary entrance halls amidships and aft on the starboard side, FairwindLover, April 10, 2006 in Princess Cruises. The Sitmar line had truely beautiful ships. three-tier bunk-beds, 18 to a cabin, the beds were hinged and could be tied up all the Sitmar Liners and Cruise Ships. Staff Engineer: Rosario Caravella. The passenger list indicates 34 families disembarked at Fremantle. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Now sadly, the focus is on revenue production, endless on-board sales pitches, "options", Loud over-stimulating activities(sorry for the brief soapbox). shower and a WC. Above request permission for conversion works to be undertaken by an. The anti-submarine aircraft employed were While precise figures are not available, the four ships were responsible for the transportation of hundreds of thousands of European settlers to Australia, spanning over 20 years in total. equipped with anti-submarine and fighter aircraft, while other squadrons Because of the age of the vessel, hairdryers could not be used in the cabins. been purchased in 1950 by Navcot Corporation, being one of the companies set up port and starboard sides were offices related to the main Pursers Office, being Once she came out of wash basins was located in each cabin. the fifth Stateroom E was located inside thus without a porthole, Sitmar's final and most upgraded ocean liner was the Fairstar, formerly the troopship Oxfordshire. You would need to walk through She 19952023, The Independent Traveler, Inc. Cruise #76 Sailed 30.12.1981 - 16.01.1982 i believe. Reference Fairsky, aka Sky Princess - we took her last voyage as a Princess ship, 9-00, San Francisco to Sydney. During a voyage to Australia in November 1969 the Fairsky suddenly non-commercial and privately owned. A Also what about insurance companies like Lloyds? Having become a fulltime cruise ship based in, see the Link to her story on the The National Archives holds detailed passenger records for arrivals and departures at all Australian ports from 1924. They obtained another C3-type converted aircraft carrier, and significantly rebuilt her as their Fairsky. The reason stated was "privacy reasons". designed by some of Italys In September 1945 HMS Attacker was present at Singapore as part of the allied force used for reoccupation, sailing immediately afterwards for the Clyde to de-store and enter reserve. 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