Thanks for returning me to my youth, Peter

Amazing and a nostalgic yet bunch of happy and sad memories. My parents were £10 poms and we sailed from Southampton with my 4 siblings, me at 2 1/2 yrs young on the Fairstar's inaugural trip to Australia. I do not directly recall anything or have any photos of that trip although I have our Emigration, Boarding and Clearance papers and a blurred 'at sea' promo photo taken from afar......, but now... I have a whole video bringing tears to my eyes on when, where and how our family started our new life here in Australia. RIP Fairstar. Thank you Peter.

Hi Peter! My family and I sailed from Southampton to Mombasa in 1966 on this ship when she was the trooper TS Oxfordshire (TS standing for "Twin Screw"). My dad ´s regiment, the Staffords were sent, with their families to Kahawa, a married quarters complex just outside Nairobi. We travelled the route: Southampton - Gibralter (through a stormy Bay of Biscay) - Valetta, Malta - Port Said - Aden (with sand storm) - Mombasa; a two week cruise! I was seven at the time and it was absolutely wonderful!! So glad you have posted this film with the history of the Fairstar and her subsequent career as a successful and very popular cruise ship. I´m now over seventy and will never forget this beautiful ship! Good on you, from an aging Pom, Les

Though I never sailed on her, I have an enduring memory of lusting over a cruise brochure I picked on the way home after school from a travel agent in Mascot. It wasn’t until 2017 at the age of 56 before we went on our first real cruise. Fairstar looks small compared to today’s offerings…but looked like a lot of fun anyhow. Thanks for sharing, you did really well.

I immigrated to Australia as a 10 year old boy in 1966 the most exciting time of my life

Thank you - great memories of sailing on the Fairstar from Station Pier in Melbourne to Southampton, via Perth, Durban, Cape of Good Hope, Tenerife, and Rotterdam, at the age of 11 years old in 1972

Thanks Peter.... Another well produced and narrated view into a bygone era... My era of passenger ship experience... The 1960's 70's and 80's ...

We sailed to Australia on the Fairstar Christmas 1964/65. Great trip.

This was wonderful to watch, myself and husband were 2 £10 poms and we sailed from Southampton to Australia in 1972, we were newly weds having married 4 months before we left for Melbourne. We stopped in Casablanca, Tenerife, Capetown and Durban, all this for a tenner! thank you Peter, from Sue in Ireland, x

I dont think she was the same after P&O took her over. I worked on her when she was with Sitmar Cruises and her yellow funnel. Wonderful memories. God bless her

Ahhh memories! Great video. Thank you.

My family and I returned to the UK in 1969 from Melbourne to Southampton on the Fairstar via Tahiti, Panama, Curacao, and Lisbon. I was seven years old at that time. We watched Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon the day before we sailed.

went in Jan 1981, 30c a can of beer , spirits were 60c , cocktails a dollar

True Lady of The Sea! Thanks for the tour.

Thanks Peter, the Fairstar had a unique atmosphere which the ships that came after her never replicated, especially Fair Princess. She didn't feel small or cramped on board although the cabin bathrooms were very compact. The ship was comfortable, the food was good and she was pleasant to sail on.

Another wonderful report against forgetting such wonderful passenger ships. Thank you Peter!.

NICE, once again. A legend.

I sailed from Australia to the UK on Fairstar in 1971. I was 5 yrs old but still have amazing memories of that trip.

Nice recap of Fairstar the Funship. You are right , there has never been a ship that has replaced Fairstar in the eyes of Australians. Looking through the pictures the ship looks comfortable, but so different to the liners of today.

Sailed on her twice in the early nineties. So many happy memories on board. Don’t know why, but it really affected me seeing her last picture, beached, in India. 😥 I understand, but it’s so sad to me.