Ship Beautiful, when I was on her in 1948 her first trip from Halifax back to Britain, I didn't realize, well I was only 6-7 years old, I had my 7th birthday on board, that she was the most luxurious ship of her time. She had survived both wars and been a troop carrier. Her career was one of the longest in history, 30 years and only broken by Queen E2 in 2005 who had 40 years of service. How I found all this out is that I am writing a story about a young boy who is okay my age at the time, who is sent from Britain to work on his Uncles farm. It is also going to be a historical fiction about a train trip across Canada. I can't find out anything about the orphan train that ran in Canada, I thought there was one in Canada as well as the states. But maybe there wasn't. I don't want to make it American I want the boy to come to British Columbia.
How I got started with this story is that one night Ken and I were talking about something that was on the radio. We got into the discussion about the children who were sent to Canada during the second war, but I found out that it was after the war that Ship Beautiful came to Canada so I couldn't use that. Had to make it after the war. To find out that Mom and I went and came back on the most luxurious ship of the time I wish I remembered more about her. I do remember she handled a storm in the mid Atlantic very well. I wasn't sea sick but Mom was and a lot of others in our cabin were too. Also coming back we passed the Queen Mary she seemed bigger than the Acquitania.
Seems I am coming up with something to write about but maybe one day I will have to use the alphabet again.
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