It was the 30th of December 1955 when my mother, and my younger brother, and I sailed on Asturias from Southampton to Singapore.
A glance at the ship's history shows that having carried out a variety of different roles and at the end of the Korean War it was commissioned as a troop ship to bring soldiers back. Two years after our voyage it was sold for scrap.
The only historical point of note was that voyage was just a few months before the Suez Crisis. Had it been after the blockade of the canal, I guess the journey would have been via South Africa and who knows maybe on a Castle Line ship.
SS Asturias