Chapter 5

HMT Devonshire, A Slow Boat to China, January 23 to February 26 1950.

A Slow Boat

In 1950 all long distance travel and beyond the borders of one’s own country was generally by sea. The passenger liners were the prime carriers. Air travel was still in its comparative infancy, expensive and the first (and in the world) transatlantic flights by the British Comet jet passenger plane did not take place until 1958. It was long before the 747 revolutionized travel and shrunk the world. [Read more…]