Hi my name is lawrence Mantz. I went to creighton comprehensive school in Muswell hill , north London. I am looking for anyone who traveled on this ship from Venice visiting Hyfia. Egypt ect.

My sons were on the ship Tweenaway secondary school Painton Devon

Hi I was on this ship and sailed to Russia and Sweden, in 1966 ,I was 12 and came from Blackhall secondary modern, my name is peter crawford, don’t remember much else except the experience

I was with Fernhill School and sailed on the Navasa early sixties to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt (Cairo) and Venice flying back to UK. What ever happened to my first girlfriend on board that memorable trip?

Hi. I was on the Baltic cruise in 1966 when a pupil at Ferryhill GT School. Had a marvellous time. Made friends with lots of different kids from Bishop Auckland, Darlington, etc. Only downside I remembered was awful fruit juice made from powder. 😕

My grandparents and their children sailed to the UK on HMT SS Troopship> From India to Southampton approx 1931-1934. I'm trying to find details of passenger lists. Can anyone advise?

My name is Peter Roberts. I was on the SS Nevasa for an educational cruise in the mid sixties when I was a pupil of the Amman Valley Grammar school. We sailed from Swansea Docks, visiting Gibraltar, Santa Cruz in the Canary Islands, Madeira, Lisbon Portugal and returning to Swansea 14 days later. We were supposed to visit Morocco but this was cancelled due to civil unrest.

My name is Jane Riddelsdell (maiden name Rowley) I was on SS Nevasa for an educational cruise in March 1971 when I was attending Whitton Secondary School, Middlesex. We flew to Venice from Gatwick then boarded the ship for Crete, Izmir in Turkey and Itea in Greece. We were meant to go to Egypt to visit the pyramids but the Egyptians wouldn't let the ship in port so we were diverted to Athens instead. Fantastic cruise, it's coming up to the 50th anniversary.

My name is Nick Morton and I was on the Nevasa during the whole of December 1968. I was with a party of six boys from Hele's School in Exeter and there were 1100 sixth form students on board, approximately 930 of them were girls! We cruised from Southampton to Maderia and then across the atlantic to Barbados, Antigua, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago. While visiting Trinidad we played a game of rugby against Trinidad and Tobago under 18's which was quite interesting as our training sessions were limited to running around the deck of the Nevasa at 6 am every morning and talking tactics in the classrooms. We won the game 53-5 however. The ship had to divert to Guadeloupe just before the return journey across the atlantic to replenish water supplies and all the students were let out for an unsupervised evening city tour. No further comment necessary. Christmas Day at sea. Visited Lisbon on the way back. The trip of a lifetime without a shadow of doubt, the only drawback being that no-one believes me when I say I once spent a month cruising around the Caribbean with 930 girls.

We left Southampton docks in February 1971 travelling to Gibraltar, Malta, Athens, Istanbul, Varna in the Black Sea and then back to Venice to fly home to Norwich UK. Not only did we have to work out different currencies in each country but we then came back to the UK for the introduction of the decimal coinage! Most of us girls from the Blyth Grammar School loved this experience, unfortunately a couple of girls never left their bunks due to terrible seasickness. What an experience in visiting these different countries and their cultures, I still love cruising but much prefer my comfortable suites and cocktails!

Hi Im Tom Burrell. Sailed on this ship from Sunderland and sailed back. Visited Spain, Gibraltar, Oran and Portugal. Attended Broadway Secondary Modern. Cant remember the year, but early 70s. Many other Sunderland schools on board.

Hi my name is Dr Jugjit Singh Sanghera sailed on the Navasa cruise from Southampton ( Nov 1967 ) thro Bay of Biscay ( very rough nearly all were being sick ) Tunisia , Crete , Rhodes , Izmir , Corfu and finally Venice before flying back to Uk My school was Portland Secondary School before going onto George Dixon Grammar School Edgbaston Bham do my A levels then University of Bham Medical School (197I)

I was on the Baltic cruise early 70's, we were slightly older coming from Dean College Edinburgh. It was wonderful my first trip abroad and my first experience of Baked beans for breakfast, I was appalled!😁. I did virtually the same cruise for my 60th, very differing surroundings with a very different Russia from the dark forbidding place it was in the 70's.We were terrified of doing something wrong and getting arrested. We were so lucky to have that opportunity!

Hi, My name is Norma McArthur.(Finney) I went to Everton Secondary School Belfast.I went on the Mediterrean cruise in August 1969. Vigo Lisbon Gibraltar and Tangier.The cost was £55 and we were only allowed to bring £15 to spend.We sailed from Belfast ( the day the troops arrived in N.Ireland) to Liverpool to pick up other people.The only bad memory was being sick (with a lot of other people) crossing the Bay of Biscay.It was basic ..not like Cruises today but it was a great opportunity to see other countries at such a young age.

I went on a cruise with our school Earlham school Norwich in the mid 70s 1974 or 5 I think we flew from Gatwick to Venice then cruised to Greece then Egypt passing Cypress and back to Southern Italy before we flew home again we crushed for 2 weeks it was lovely