Interesting post. The Nevasa was almost brand new, having been delivered to British India Line on July 12th, one of two new troopships, the other being Bibby's Oxfordshire delivered in February 1957. Both were redundant by 1962 as trooping went entirely over to air transport. The Nevasa had a second life as an educational cruise ship until being scrapped in 1975 while Oxfordshire became Sitmar's cruise ship Fairstar which had a long career ending under P & O ownership in Australia, finally being scrapped in 1997.