An old BR/BTDB photo of DUNERA at Grangemouth in the early 1960s ready to embark a fresh wave of eager schoolkids for exotic destinations.
A Barclay Curle product in 1937 for Bibby Line she served as a troopship until 1961 when she was converted for educational cruising, which role she fulfilled unt
The British educational cruise ship DUNERA, 157m/12.620gt, completed on the 10/05/1937 by Barclay Curle & Co., Glasgow, for British India S.N. Co.,Ltd., London; 1937/60 troopship; 13/02/1961 converted by Palmers, Hebburn-on-Tyne, as an educational cruise ship; 11/01/1967 sold to be broken up at Bilb
I noted the thread on troopships and here is one of them, the "Dunera", approaching the Thames in 1965. By the time she was a schoolship rather than a trooper.