Who Are They?
These photographs were taken on board the Asturias in November 1948, by Pat Piggott. His wife Irene (Rene) and son Michael are pictured with other passengers. If you can identify them, please let us know.
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Army Chaplain's Poems
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Ship's Voyage Logs
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Statistics about the Ship
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Les Malton travelled on the Asturias, arriving in Fremantle in November 1947. At that time, the journey had "the largest number
of migrants to arrive in Australia in one ship". There were 1,612 passengers, including 'assisted passage migrants', 100 child
migrants, Australian Government passengers (fiancees of Australian servicemen), and 167 Polish Resettlement Corps men travelling to
Tasmania under contract to the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commision. Most of the passengers eventually went on to Eastern States,
but first had to spend a hot Christmas in Perth.
Les, who now lives in Melbourne, has kindly forwarded many items of memorabilia
from his journey for the enjoyment of visitors to this site. He can be contacted by sending an email to the site administrator.
(Click on thumbnails to view)
