Comments on: M.V. Accra http://family.ijhedges.com/2008/08/28/mv-accra/ Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:23:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ian http://family.ijhedges.com/2008/08/28/mv-accra/comment-page-1/#comment-544 Ian Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:17:09 +0000 http://family.ijhedges.com/?p=38#comment-544 Hi Michelle, I've had a quick look and here's a couple of pictures of the <a href="http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/ElderD-2.html#anchor5028" title="Elder Dempster Accra" rel="nofollow">1947 Accra</a>. The first picture is the 1926 Accra, but the other two are correct. If you travelled back from Lagos, arriving in Plymouth on 24th August 1949 on the Amstelkerk, then I have found you in the incoming passenger lists on Ancestry.co.uk. Regards, Ian Hi Michelle,
I’ve had a quick look and here’s a couple of pictures of the 1947 Accra. The first picture is the 1926 Accra, but the other two are correct.
If you travelled back from Lagos, arriving in Plymouth on 24th August 1949 on the Amstelkerk, then I have found you in the incoming passenger lists on Ancestry.co.uk.
Regards,
Ian

]]> By: Michelle Worthington http://family.ijhedges.com/2008/08/28/mv-accra/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Michelle Worthington Sat, 07 Mar 2009 00:44:44 +0000 http://family.ijhedges.com/?p=38#comment-541 Hi there, I travelled from Southampton to Lagos on the Accra in 1949 at that time my name was sullivan. I have been trying to find a picture of the Accra on the net but have been unsuccessful. Can you suggest a site that I can go to. I have very vivid memories of the trip especially having to climb down a very long thin ladder to get onto a boat to take us onto dry land!! Hi there, I travelled from Southampton to Lagos on the Accra in 1949 at that time my name was sullivan. I have been trying to find a picture of the Accra on the net but have been unsuccessful. Can you suggest a site that I can go to. I have very vivid memories of the trip especially having to climb down a very long thin ladder to get onto a boat to take us onto dry land!!

]]> By: Ian http://family.ijhedges.com/2008/08/28/mv-accra/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Ian Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:26:26 +0000 http://family.ijhedges.com/?p=38#comment-265 Thank you John for contacting me with that correction. I think it must have been finger trouble, I have 26th in my notes. Thanks also for the link to the website, I hadn't found that one yet. I am putting together a page about the ships that Henry travelled on and that will be more detailed for each vessel. Could you let me know what time frame your father was stationed in Kaduna? If the times overlap, it would seem likely that they may have known each other, both being printers. You may have seen from my other posts that Henry was in Nigeria from 1922 until early 1939. I know at the time of my father's birth, in 1935, Henry was in Kaduna, but I do not know if he spent his entire service there. Regards, Ian Thank you John for contacting me with that correction. I think it must have been finger trouble, I have 26th in my notes.
Thanks also for the link to the website, I hadn’t found that one yet. I am putting together a page about the ships that Henry travelled on and that will be more detailed for each vessel.

Could you let me know what time frame your father was stationed in Kaduna? If the times overlap, it would seem likely that they may have known each other, both being printers. You may have seen from my other posts that Henry was in Nigeria from 1922 until early 1939. I know at the time of my father’s birth, in 1935, Henry was in Kaduna, but I do not know if he spent his entire service there.
Regards,
Ian

]]> By: John Puddefoot http://family.ijhedges.com/2008/08/28/mv-accra/comment-page-1/#comment-264 John Puddefoot Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:58:32 +0000 http://family.ijhedges.com/?p=38#comment-264 My father was on board the Accra when she was torpedoed, I think on 26 July, 1940, not 29th, and coincidentally was returning from Nigeria where he too was a printer, stationed at Kaduna. You can find a picture of the ship at the website above. My father was on board the Accra when she was torpedoed, I think on 26 July, 1940, not 29th, and coincidentally was returning from Nigeria where he too was a printer, stationed at Kaduna. You can find a picture of the ship at the website above.

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