Text-----The new troopship - Nevasa (20,800 tons)- after her launching in the Clyde on November 30 (1955) by Mrs. Boyd- Carpenter, wife of the Minister of Transport and civil Aviation
A steam turbine vessel with a surface speed of 17 knots, she is being fitted with stabilisers. She is expected to go into service as a trooper in summer, 1956.
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Nevasa
From the illustrated London news.--The British India Steam Company 21,000-ton Nevasa is shown immediately after the launch from the Clydeholm dockyard of the Barclay, Curls and co.Ltd. The trooper has 500 cabins for officers, warrant officers and their families and berths for 1,000 men on troopdecks.( I was on a troopdeck!) Believe the first voyage was to the middle east Oct ? 1956.