those pictures!
Have to put my two pennies worth in! Paxed out to Singapore 010159 on the regular trooper, namely an Airwork Hermes with 8 stops but returned in "luxury" in Oxfordshire 310861. As my Dad was an RAF officer (and paymaster for the airmen on board) we had a cabin. I remember the salt water showers though. Whilst in Singapore we went up to Hong Kong on the Nevassa on R&R. I believe she did a small refit whilst there at the Whampoa dockyards. Those wonderful pictures have unlocked distant memories of those times, although I wished I'd snapped the scene of an Arab trying (and succeeding) to stuff a pouffe into our porthole whilst balancing on the top of his mast in Port Said!