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Revision as of 00:30, 23 May 2024
Remarks
Used by the Bibby Line on the Far East service . Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939 to act as an Armed merchant Cruiser until July 1943 after which she was used as a troopship.
SS Cheshire carried the last group of Ex Prisoners of war to return from Singapore, arriving in Sydney on 23 Nov 1945. She was present at the US-British nuclear bomb tests conducted at Christmas (Kiritimati or Kiribati) Island, a British colony in the Pacific during 1962.
Soldiers carried
Singapore to Fremantle 2 - 13 November 1945
boarded at Balikpapan
- Edwin Reed Marshall boarded at Balikpapan