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ROTHERA, Marjorie & Joyce

25 August 1900 – 9 November 1992
Born 20 February 1930

Origin Bradford .England
First settled in Fremantle, WA

BATORY

Departure Port Liverpool
Arrival Year 1940

Fremantle

98 panel

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Left Liverpool 1940. Took 9 weeks to get to Fremantle 60 first class passengers plus 500 soldiers and 500 children. BATORY was escorted by 20 warships. The troops were left in Singapore, the children went onto the Eastern States. 2 books written on the cruise, one titled The Singing Ship by Meta Maclean.

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  • Can anyone remember my mother Nan Axon and her twin sister Sheila who were on the Batory sailing from Liverpool in August 1940. Her home town was Grimsby.

    Wed 18 May 2011

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