Here are four pictures of a famous White Star Liner, `M.V. GEORGIC,` the last to be built for the White Star Line in 1932 then in 1934 Cunard Steamship Company took over White Star to become the Cunard White Star Line.
First picture is when she was new on Maiden Voyage, 2nd is when she was bombed and set on fire in Suez Bay with 800 Italian POWs on board, a very large death toll in 1941, then the 3rd is after the fire and she is beached, the 4th is as she was when I sailed on her in 1955 taking emmigrants from Liverpool to Australia, Australian troops, 2RAR, to Malaya and the French Foreign Legion from the Meekong in what was French Indo China renamed Viet Nam, to Algiers and Mersailes, France.
Then we took her to the breakers on the Clyde on December 15 1955.
She was a good job sorry to see her go.
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