Hi! Very glad to see your infos on the Samaria.I also sailed on it once when I was five years old, but in the other direction.My parents had decided to emigrate to Canada when I was four and we left on the Ascania. That was in 1954. after eight months living with an uncle in Toronto (Evens avenue if my memory serves me still a little bit) things were not working out so we returned to Britain. That was on the Samaria. One direction or the other those two Atlantic crossing impressed my mind with lifelong memories. I can still see those big mid-Atlantic waves, green and crested with creamy foam. It was in the dining rooms that I tasted grapefruit for the first time and every morning after that at breakfast. Today, whenever I eat a grapefruit or drink the juice without sugar I'm back in that dining room again at the age of seventy now. All that just to say thanks a lot. Did you do a lot of research?
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Much thanks! There was a short version of the upright that is 4' high. R.I.P. Sten!
Much thanks! There was a short version of the upright that is 4' high. R.I.P. Sten!
Hi! Very glad to see your infos on the Samaria.I also sailed on it once when I was five years old, but in the other direction.My parents had decided to emigrate to Canada when I was four and we left on the Ascania. That was in 1954. after eight months living with an uncle in Toronto (Evens avenue if my memory serves me still a little bit) things were not working out so we returned to Britain. That was on the Samaria.
One direction or the other those two Atlantic crossing impressed my mind with lifelong memories. I can still see those big mid-Atlantic waves, green and crested with creamy foam. It was in the dining rooms that I tasted grapefruit for the first time and every morning after that at breakfast. Today, whenever I eat a grapefruit or drink the juice without sugar I'm back in that dining room again at the age of seventy now.
All that just to say thanks a lot. Did you do a lot of research?
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