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Memories of the Greek Line's Nea Hellas 1939-1955
Memories
of the
T.S.S. Nea Hellas
NEA ELLAS
This site is graphic intensive and will take a while to load. It will be worth your time.
Many of those who were looking for a piece of their family's distant past have been kind enough to email me their memories of this ship. I thank them for sharing their recollections, and thereby adding to her history. If you have any personal memories, personal photographs or memorabilia from a voyage aboard the Nea Hellas, Tuscania or the New York, please contact me through the email link at the end of this web page and I will include them in future updates.
This rare color photo is from 1956. She was 34 years old, and had 5 years left. The long era of trans Atlantic travel via steamship was coming to an end.
NEW!
We are very fortunate to have received a unique contribution from a German immigrant who came to the United States a half century ago on the T.S.S. New York. This generous gift is a video made from a film on a crossing from Bremerhaven, West Germany to New York City in October of 1955.
This web site and its readers owe a debt of gratitude to
Mr. Rainer Mueller
for his gift to the legacy of this ship
please click on the below link
Mr. Rainer Mueller's Rare Video
from Fraser MacKinnon, Michigan "I just learned today that my mother sailed on the Tuscania on her voyage from Glasgow to New York. They were from Scotland. They arrived in New York on October 2, 1923. They went to Joliet, Illinois and eventually settled in Michigan where she died in the 70's. I found your web site and was very pleased to find the pictures of the Tuscania. These pictures will go into the genealogy booklet I am compiling. Thank you for the pictures and the history of the ship."
the TSS Tuscania in 1923
From Lackey Paparis, Williamsburg, Virginia "My mother and I came over in 1952 on the Nea Hellas. I was only 2 1/2 years old and was almost lost overboard trying to catch a large dead fish. When I was older, my mother would tell me of the great ship that brought us over to America. I always wondered what this ship looked like. Now, thanks to you I will blow this picture up and hang it in our restaurant. Last June I sent an e-mail to the Greek Embassy in Washington asking about pictures on the Nea Hellas. The reply was to contact a newspaper in Greece, which ran a feature on past Greek ships. I had a friend in Greece who sent a copy of the newspaper. The picture of the Nea Hellas was very disappointing, but at least I knew how the ship looked from the rear. During the summer I tried several internet search sites with no luck. Then a couple weeks ago I just happened to try another internet site and your page came up. I took the pictures the very next day to my mother who was very surprised that I found such beautiful pictures of the ship. They brought back memories. My daughter made a wallpaper for my computer of the big picture. Thank you very much for making the site, I hope you have had a lot of responses from other passengers. If You every come to Williamsburg, please stop by at our restaurant the Yorkshire. It will be a pleasure to meet you in person."
From Moe Erlich, Cape Cod, Massachussets "Thanks for your story. My Dad lives in Brooklyn, NY) The Nea Hellas brought him to Halifax in 1950, he met my mom in Toronto and I was born in Montreal. They both lost everyone in The Holocaust and this ship represented freedom to the New World for him. He's 75 now but loves to tell the story of how the ship was caught in a great storm in the middle of the ocean, and how he found himself walking into an empty dining area asking an amazed crew member what was being served. He said that after surviving what he had in Europe (the deaths of his loved ones, The Nazis, dysentery-which was usually deadly back then and starvation) a storm, no matter how big, was not going to keep him from eating! This story is true and will become legendary in my family. I printed out all your pages in color and plan to send it to my Dad as part of a Father's Day present. He mentions the ship, every so often, as a fond memory. The internet is truly amazing-I just got on a few months ago and it's finding people like you that makes it all worthwhile! Sharing memories with the few that would understand. Please feel free to use it on your web page if you see fit."
From Judy Larribaut, United Kingdom "Just to let you know that my father travelled on the neahellas from Greenock on the Clyde to South Africa via the med during the early part of 1944.It was an uneventual trip carrying RAF aircrew trainees to South Africa for their flying training."
From Theodore Ierapetritis, Sydney Australia "I am the son of an once upon a time high-ranking officer of the Royal Hellenic Navy - which makes me an oldie, damn it! Anyway your page and photograph of New Hellas did not fail to almost bring tears to my eyes. Too many memories of Hellas, of childhood, of our father and travelling every summer, by ship of course, to Athens to spend our holidays with yia-yia ....Simply a torrent of pleasant memories, and for which I'm very grateful to you for them. But what a lovely sojourne that was and I thank you for it."
From Henry Lacina, Sydney Australia " My parents, Mieczyslaw Lacina and his new bride Janina, came to Australia from Europe after WW2 on the Nea Hellas. They traveled overland from Germany where they were liberated from forced labour on German farms. They decided not to return to their native Poland because they feared that Europe may erupt into war again one day, so they applied for Australian immigration under work contracts. After arriving in Naples, Italy they were taken to the dock to board the Nea Hellas. They were brought before two American officers, one reading from a list of passengers, and another seated next to a briefcase full of US bills. They were pleasantly surprised when they were allocated $7.00 US, as 'pocket money' for the voyage, but were less pleased when they discovered that they would be bunking in separate male and female quarters!
The original tickets. Note that they had to bunk in different rooms, but at least they ate together
My mother was seasick for most of the voyage but dad was in his element after an initial queaziness. They were surprised to see that although the ship had been commissioned by the Australian government to bring over displaced persons from the war, the ship had its full compliment of staff and they were given First-Class service! They ate everything they could get their hands on and enjoyed dancing, singing and other forms of impromptu entertainment. After many years of poverty and hunger in Europe, to be able to go back for seconds at the dinner table was like being in heaven!
Along with the dancing and singing, regular boxing bouts to amuse the boys.
My father often told me about how wonderful it was to be waited on and treated like royalty; and all free of charge! He remembers bad weather on the way, and turning up in a near empty dining room as the ship was being tossed around. The seas were so rough that he marveled at seeing the two huge propellers come entirely out of the water as he leaned over the stern railing in the pitching seas.
Arriving Melbourne 23/02/1949. Train waiting to transport to Bonegeila.
After a voyage through the Suez Canal and steaming across the Indian Ocean, they arrived almost a month later on 23rd Feb 1949 at the port of Melbourne, Australia. They were taken by train to converted army barracks at Bonegeila for processing and English classes before being transported to Sydney.
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