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A photo from a newspaper . been doing Family History Research this was the ship that my mum went to Canada on in 1945.
http://sunderlandships.com/view.php?ref=102982
A cargo ship with accommodation for 12 passengers. WW2 convoy duty, Cairnesk, (about 127 meters) long, speed of 12 knots. Built for The Cairn Line of Steamships Ltd. (Cairns, Noble & Co., Ltd., the managers) i.e. Cairn Line, of Newcastle. Must have been a 'lucky' ship. 141 convoy references in WW2 including at least 28 voyages across N. Atlantic, & many U.K. coastal voyages. Made, a total of 208 round trip voyages to Canada before sale in 1956 - which is a puzzle because many of the WW2 voyages were ex New York - & Cairn Line apparently served Canada (Quebec & Montreal) in the summer & Portland, Maine, in the winter. Sold in 1956, to Italian owners & renamed Zermatt. Sold in 1959 & renamed Aurora P. On Nov. 25, 1959, arrived at Osaka, Japan, to be broken up.
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