AMERICA

SS Ascania/ Cunard

In conversation with a nice customer a few years ago I learned that he was a collector of ship documents, ships that had long been scrapped etc. He was also a retired writer for the long gone Toronto Telegram newspaper.

He happened to have some bits and pieces of info and pictures on the ship that brought me to Canada all these many years ago. While at sea, the uprising in Hungary ( defeated by the USSR)and the bombing of the Suez-canal ( by the French and British)were the news of the day. I was a passenger on the last voyage of this junkpile which took me from LeHavre to Quebec City.