Unfortunately, I don't have any photos.
I travelled out to Kenya in 1949 as a family when I was six on the 'Empire Ken'. We docked at Mombassa and night trained up to Niarobi. The Empire Ken (who the hell names a ship 'Ken'??) was a real tub which I remember would have rolled on the Serpentine. No air conditioning, two or three families (women and children only) to a cabin and terrible food. But as a six year old, a huge adventure. From what I remember, we docked at Gib, somewhere in Greece, Port Said, Suez, Somalia and then Mombassa. The best bit of the whole 3 week trip, was sleeping in a bunk on the train journey up to Niarobi.
Three years later, we did the same journey in reverse, this time on the 'Empress of Australia' on her last voyage. A different ship altogether - total luxury! The main things I remember about that voyage, were the superb bread rolls at breakfast and sailing through the Bay of Biscay during the worst storm for 50 years (apparently).
Loved the whole experience, seasickness aside!
