Cargo ship holiday trip

Back in the 1950's cargo travel was common.

My Mum travelled to SA back in the 1950's on a cargo ship to marry my Dad.

2 weeks to Cape Town, And another Week on the Train to meet up with my Dad in NR.

Bloody Millennials have no ******* idea what real traveling is really about!

:cool: :D :D
 
Orionaut said:
Back in the 1950's cargo travel was common.

My Mum travelled to SA back in the 1950's on a cargo ship to marry my Dad.

2 weeks to Cape Town, And another Week on the Train to meet up with my Dad in NR.

Bloody Millennials have no ******* idea what real traveling is really about!

:cool: :D :D
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I guess your mum was surrounded by lots of seamen.
 
I was looking into this as well and it's definitely not cheap! I was looking at a trip from NZ to Singapore, and was shocked to see it was about $6k NZ for 49 nights (round trip) ($122 per night for basically food and a bed), yet i went on a 10 night cruise with a balcony suite, all you can eat restaurants and free entertainment, trips on land, room service etc, for about $170 per night. Much better value IMO.

https://www.freighterexpeditions.co...ralia-to-singapore-via-6-ports-in-new-zealand
 
hornetstinger said:
I guess your mum was surrounded by lots of seamen.
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You jest, :D

But yes, she had a lot of proposals during the voyage! :p

(She was also hard as ******* nails for a single young (early 20's) )Woman to spend two weeks traveling to the other side of the world back in the 1950's all on her own with six other passengers on a cargo ship full of, as you say, seamen!!!)

We are seriously lacking a "Respect" emoji here!!

Really!

:/

Oh and PS, As I said, another week on the train!
 
I've spent plenty of time travelling on container ships, as I used to work landslide operations for an international shipping company and used to hop around on them at times. As some have said, without official duties on board it will be dull and certainly not form part of the holiday - it'll be quite restrictive and most routes will have very little to see or experience on them. Cheap international air travel stopped this being a thing, plus I think that fewer vessel owners are open to allowing passengers on board as they may present a significant risk to security. Most merchant ships have a fraction of the crew that they used to 30 years ago.
 
The_Abyss said:
I've spent plenty of time travelling on container ships, as I used to work landslide operations for an international shipping company and used to hop around on them at times. As some have said, without official duties on board it will be dull and certainly not form part of the holiday - it'll be quite restrictive and most routes will have very little to see or experience on them. Cheap international air travel stopped this being a thing, plus I think that fewer vessel owners are open to allowing passengers on board as they may present a significant risk to security. Most merchant ships have a fraction of the crew that they used to 30 years ago.
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Pretty much as I recall her memories.

It was comfortable enough (In some ways luxurious) Board and lodgings were very good (Dinner at the captains table every night). But it was very boring. This is not a cruise. Just a way of going from A to B. and the passenger limit for cargo ships back them was limited by the requirement for having a medical officer on board

If you had less than a certain number of crew/passengers you didn't need one (So if you got sick you would die!)
 
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