Showing posts with label Fremantle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fremantle. Show all posts
22 August 2025

Beginning Life in Australia, by Viltis Salytė-Kružienė, translated by Daina Pocius

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These are excerpts from a speech by Viltis Salytė-Kružienė on 6 July 1997 at Melbourne Lithuanian House for Lithuanian National...
30 June 2025

Lost luggage, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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Not all about the Heintzelman voyage was happiness.   Lost luggage spoiled the trip for several. Nikolajs Bergtals: see below for his '...
29 June 2025

The stopover in Perth, 28 November - 2 December 1947 by Ann Tündern-Smith

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We've looked already at the carefully organised disembarkation of 839 passengers from the USAT General Stuart Heintzelman in Fremantl...
24 June 2025

Stanislavs Berzins: the First Accident, by Ann Tündern-Smith

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We've reported already on two work - related deaths and a fatal motor cycle accident .  Sadly, there were some more, which we'll ge...

Disembarking from the Heintzelman in Fremantle Harbour: the Orders, by RW Gratwick with Ann Tündern-Smith

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Military precision is not a surprise only two years after the end of World War II.  That's what was required by the Acting Commonwealth ...
08 April 2025

Alfonsas Sadauskas (1916-1990), my father, by Vidas Sadauskas

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Updated 22-23 April, 31 July and 5 August 2025. Young Alfonsas Alfonsas was born on 26 September 1916 in Vabalninkas village in Biržai distr...
16 January 2025

Vaclavs Kozlovskis reaches Australia and stays in Perth, translated by Monika Kozlovskis with Janis Sakurovs

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Updated 17 January 2025 INDIAN OCEAN, 22.11.47, Sat. Today my head felt quite heavy, it seems such lurching doesn’t do me much good. In th...
17 March 2024

Povilas Deimantas (1917-2009): A Peterborough Balt, by John Mannion

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Born in Lithuania, Povilas Deimantas was already 30 years old when he boarded the General Stuart Heintzelman for the longest trip of his li...