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Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 20 Dec 2009 10:45AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lawson
My husband's family (Lawson) migrated to Australia in August 1955 aboard the MV Georgic and it would interesting to hear from anyone else who was on the ship at the time.

Dianne Lawson

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 13 Mar 2010 6:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Marsh
I was on that ship in 1955. I have now settled in Adelaide.

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 6:52AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, I was a passenger MV Georgic with my parents and younger sister in 1955 on an "assisted passage". I seem to remember however that we sailed from Liverpool, via the Suez' and docked at Fremantle and then Melbourne where we disembarked and travelled by train to Adelaide [Georgic apparently was to large to dock at Adelaide's Outer Harbour.
One thing I would love to confirm is the arrival date at Melbourne if anyone can help please.
Many thanks, Chris.

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 30 Jun 2010 6:56AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, I was a passenger on MV Georgic with my parents and younger sister in 1955 on an "assisted passage". I seem to remember however that we sailed from Liverpool, via the Suez' and docked at Fremantle and then Melbourne where we disembarked and travelled by train to Adelaide [Georgic apparently was to large to dock at Adelaide's Outer Harbour.
One thing I would love to confirm is the arrival date at Melbourne if anyone can help please.
Many thanks, Chris.

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 1 Jul 2010 5:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, Great to talk to someone who did the trip to Australia, August 1955. The Georgic took my parents and myself and sister and brother down the coast of Africa and onto Fremantle where passengers were then told where abouts in Australia they were heading for. My family were told Adelaide so we had to catch Overlander from Melbourne final destination Adelaide. The journey took us 5 weeks. I do remember the reason for doing it this way and it was that the Georgic was to big to berth at Outer Harbour. Regards.

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 17 Oct 2010 4:37PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Lawson/Marsh/Bennett
Hi,
I have no connection with the GEORGIC, but I looked up the ships passenger lists ... and it gives the address each passenger came from, as well as each passenger's date of birth.
LAWSON family is on page 24, MARSH family on page 26, and there is a BENNET family on pages 2 and 3 ... but there is no Chris Bennett listed with them.
The Georgic started from Liverpool, and there were 1,874 passengers on board. However, it doesn't give an arrival date in Australia.
If any of you need more information, I can look up the original lists.

Brian, Glasgow
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Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 1:55AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi, Brian (Glasgow)
Thank you for the information you provided. I have mangaged to get the information indicating the details of my husband's families travel on the MV Georgic to Australia. Upon their arrival in Fremantle which I believe was on or about 30 September 1955 (my husband's 5th birthday) they were then transferred to Sydney for approximately 12 months at the Bradfield Park Migrant Camp. They then settled in George Town, Tasmania as my father-in-law had managed to obtain a position at Comalco Aluminium.
It is great to hear from other people who have connections with the same ship and under the same circumstances have arrived in a new country.
I was recently in Sydney and went to the Australian Maritime Museum and there is a wall there (known as the Welcome Wall) which pays a lasting tribute to family members who have migrated to Australia. You have to register you name(s) with them but I think that it is a great way to commemorate their new lives in Australia.
Dianne Lawson (Tasmania)

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 8 Jan 2011 3:58PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Robinson
I was an Able Seaman on the Georgic when we sailed from Liverpool to Australia with emmigrants. We called at Las Palmas in the Canarys and then to Cape Town, the Stewards went on strke and walked off, The ship was there for three days. Then across the Southern Ocean to Freemantle and Melbourne then to Sydney. I became very friendly to a lovely girl from Bury Lancashire,She was with her parents, Mr and Mrs Robinson and her younger brother. She was called Shiela Robinson. I called back to Melbourne on another ship several months later and they lived in a Nissen hut in an emmigrants camp, very primitive at Brooklyn. the following year I went to visit them again and they lived on a farm at Melton South outside Melbourne. Then I went back and she kicked me into touch as she had started courting an Ozzie fella. Ah well it was her loss. Still have photos of her 55 years later.
The Georgic was a rough tough ship for passengers, I used to feel very sorry for them on that long voyage living in those bad conditions.As Sailors we had better accommodation than the passengers. I also had a great admiration for the courage of those people to leave England and to go to OZ, a strange land on the other side of the world, a place they realy never knew much of. They were Pioneers. `Good on yer`.
We sailed from Sydney after loading 2000 Australian Troops for the war in Malaya and then we went to Viet Nam to load the French Foreign Legion after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu to take them back to Algiers and Marseilles. On December 15 1955 we took the Georgic to the Ship Breakers on the Clyde.
I think there is a Museum on Flinders Street in Melbourne that has some records.
Brian Aspinall Bolton. UK

Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 6:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Orr
I am looking for the Orr family who arrived in Australia on the Georgic. They left Liverpool on May 14 1955. The family consisted of parents Robert Douglas and Violet Orr and 2 children Ethel Margaret about 4 years and baby Ian. It is believed they settled in Western Australia. They were sponsored by my great uncle Richard Robertson. These people are cousins of mine and my purpose in looking for them is family history.

Elizabeth Wynn

wynne@optusnet.com.au
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Re: Passengers on MV Georgic, Southampton to Sydney, August 1955

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 10:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
I thought the Georgic left from Liverpool in August 1955, as we imigrated to Australia on this ship in August 1955, still being a child 0f 12 years i could be wrong,I remember we were transported to Sydney, at a camp called Wallgrove hostel.
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