Elder Dempster Line's FREETOWN left Las Palmas March 31 for Douala

QUEEN MARY 11 on Caledonian Steam Packet Company Steamer Timetable 1956

Contributed by Hugh MacDonald  (Glasgow)

1956 advert by Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd. and Burns & Laird Lines Ltd.

  1956 Advertisment for the Liverpool to Belfast passenger service

of Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd. and the Glasgow and Ardrossan (Summer) passenger service to Belfast of Burns & Laird Lines Ltd.

Fishing Trawler JOE CROAN launched at yard of John Lewis & Sons Ltd., Aberdeen

Advert in 1956 by Glasgow Wireless College to train Wireless Officers for Marconi Company

THE  MARCONI  COMPANY

RADIO OFFICERS REQUIRED FOR 1957.

NEW DAY AND EVENING CLASSES

COMMENCE APRIL 3^rd

Full particulars of training from Secretary

GLASGOW  WIRELESS  COLLEGE

26 Newton Place, C.3.    Tel.  DOU 0696

Royal Australian Navy warn of Prohibited Area for Atomic Tests on Montebello Islands

   The Royal Australian Navy have warned that, from 1 May, the sea within a radius of 150 nautical miles of the Montebello Islands will be a prohibited area for all shipping and 500 miles for all aircraft as United Kingdom will be conducting Atomic Tests on Alpha and Trimouille Islands.

   Montebello Islands are an archipelago of around 174 small islands about 12ml (20km) north of Barrow Island and 130km (81ml) off the Pilbara Coast of north-western Australia.

   Australian Naval vessels will patrol the outer limits of the prohibited area to warn ships.

Cunard liner FRANCONIA returns to Southampton with machinery problems

   The Cunard 20,175-gross ton passenger liner FRANCONIA arrived in Southampton today, having turned back when off the south of Ireland after experiencing turbine engine problems.

   The ship had left Southampton and Le Havre on Thursday 29 March with 669 passengers bound for Halifax (Nova Scotia) and New York.

   Another Cunard ship, the cargo/passenger liner ASIA, which was on passage from New York to U.K. stood by FRANCONIA and accompanied her on her way back to Southampton.

   A Cunard spokesman said that “the trouble arose from a failure of the oil supply to the bearings in the turbine which powers the port propeller.   At sea the ship’s engineers made some progress towards a temporary repair and the propeller began to turn again but a thorough overhaul of the port turbine will be necessary.”

   The spokesman also said that all passengers would be found alternative transport as quickly as possible.   Urgent travellers would be flown and others would go in the QUEEN MARY, which leaves next Thursday, or in the liner SAXONIA which leaves Liverpool for Canadian Ports on 10 April.   All of the 79 passengers who embarked at Le Havre would be accommodated in British Hotels.

   FRANCONIA was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and completed in May 1923.   She is 601 feet long and 74 feet breadth, has a capacity for 1,700 passengers and is powered by two sets of geared steam turbine engines which drive twin propellers giving a service speed of 16 ½ knots.

   During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Government and refitted as a Troopship, and she saw much active service including Allied landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Italy and the Azores and repatriated British Troops, including freed Prisoners of War from India.       

Cunard liner ASIA stands by FRANCONIA which has machinery problems

   The Cunard 20,175-gross ton passenger liner FRANCONIA arrived in Southampton today, having turned back when off the south of Ireland after experiencing turbine engine problems.

   The ship had left Southampton and Le Havre on Thursday 29 March with 669 passengers bound for Halifax (Nova Scotia) and New York.

   Another Cunard ship, the cargo/passenger liner ASIA, which was on passage from New York to U.K. stood by FRANCONIA and accompanied her on her way back to Southampton.

   A Cunard spokesman said that “the trouble arose from a failure of the oil supply to the bearings in the turbine which powers the port propeller.   At sea the ship’s engineers made some progress towards a temporary repair and the propeller began to turn again but a thorough overhaul of the port turbine will be necessary.”

   The spokesman also said that all passengers would be found alternative transport as quickly as possible.   Urgent travellers would be flown and others would go in the QUEEN MARY, which leaves next Thursday, or in the liner SAXONIA which leaves Liverpool for Canadian Ports on 10 April.   All of the 79 passengers who embarked at Le Havre would be accommodated in British Hotels.

   FRANCONIA was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and completed in May 1923.   She is 601 feet long and 74 feet breadth, has a capacity for 1,700 passengers and is powered by two sets of geared steam turbine engines which drive twin propellers giving a service speed of 16 ½ knots.

   During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Government and refitted as a Troopship, and she saw much active service including Allied landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Italy and the Azores and repatriated British Troops, including freed Prisoners of War from India.       

Blue Star's FREMANTLE STAR arrives at Plantation Quay, Glasgow to load for New Zealand ports

Blue Star Line's FREMANTLE STAR arrives at Plantation Quay, Glasgow to load for New Zealand

ILE DE FRANCE leaves Southampton for New York

Cunard liner QUEEN MARY leaves Southampton for New York

   The Cunard 20,175-gross ton passenger liner FRANCONIA arrived in Southampton today, having turned back when off the south of Ireland after experiencing turbine engine problems.

   The ship had left Southampton and Le Havre on Thursday 29 March with 669 passengers bound for Halifax (Nova Scotia) and New York.

   Another Cunard ship, the cargo/passenger liner ASIA, which was on passage from New York to U.K. stood by FRANCONIA and accompanied her on her way back to Southampton.

   A Cunard spokesman said that “the trouble arose from a failure of the oil supply to the bearings in the turbine which powers the port propeller.   At sea the ship’s engineers made some progress towards a temporary repair and the propeller began to turn again but a thorough overhaul of the port turbine will be necessary.”

   The spokesman also said that all passengers would be found alternative transport as quickly as possible.   Urgent travellers would be flown and others would go in the QUEEN MARY, which leaves next Thursday, or in the liner SAXONIA which leaves Liverpool for Canadian Ports on 10 April.   All of the 79 passengers who embarked at Le Havre would be accommodated in British Hotels.

   FRANCONIA was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and completed in May 1923.   She is 601 feet long and 74 feet breadth, has a capacity for 1,700 passengers and is powered by two sets of geared steam turbine engines which drive twin propellers giving a service speed of 16 ½ knots.

   During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Government and refitted as a Troopship, and she saw much active service including Allied landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Italy and the Azores and repatriated British Troops, including freed Prisoners of War from India.       

Isthmian's freighter STEEL ARTISAN due to arrive at Alleppey Cochin to load for North America

Maatschappij Zeetransport's PRINS MAURITS arrives in Glasgow to load for Chicago and Montreal

Cunard liner SAXONIA leaves Liverpool for Canadian Ports

   The Cunard 20,175-gross ton passenger liner FRANCONIA arrived in Southampton today, having turned back when off the south of Ireland after experiencing turbine engine problems.

   The ship had left Southampton and Le Havre on Thursday 29 March with 669 passengers bound for Halifax (Nova Scotia) and New York.

   Another Cunard ship, the cargo/passenger liner ASIA, which was on passage from New York to U.K. stood by FRANCONIA and accompanied her on her way back to Southampton.

   A Cunard spokesman said that “the trouble arose from a failure of the oil supply to the bearings in the turbine which powers the port propeller.   At sea the ship’s engineers made some progress towards a temporary repair and the propeller began to turn again but a thorough overhaul of the port turbine will be necessary.”

   The spokesman also said that all passengers would be found alternative transport as quickly as possible.   Urgent travellers would be flown and others would go in the QUEEN MARY, which leaves next Thursday, or in the liner SAXONIA which leaves Liverpool for Canadian Ports on 10 April.   All of the 79 passengers who embarked at Le Havre would be accommodated in British Hotels.

   FRANCONIA was built by John Brown & Company at Clydebank and completed in May 1923.   She is 601 feet long and 74 feet breadth, has a capacity for 1,700 passengers and is powered by two sets of geared steam turbine engines which drive twin propellers giving a service speed of 16 ½ knots.

   During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Government and refitted as a Troopship, and she saw much active service including Allied landings in Madagascar, North Africa, Italy and the Azores and repatriated British Troops, including freed Prisoners of War from India.