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Historian
MS Skaubryn
Skaubryn
arrives in Fremantle
Photograph © West Australia Newspapers
Looking for Survivors of the Survivors from MS Skaubryn’s last voyage!
It will be 50
years on 31st March 2008, when a fire broke out in the engine room
of the MS Skaubryn on her crossing to Australia
in the Indian Ocean.
I, Ingeburg Schwertner (nee Dammasch) was one of the passengers on the way to Australia to
follow my love. My friend Lothar had migrated to Australia on
the same ship in November 1956. He wrote
to me in the DDR and invited me to
come to Australia. We married on the 12th of July
1958 and have lived a very happy life in Australia.
We have two
children and have moved around Australia
quite a bit. Started our married life in Sydney,
than moved to Tea Gardens, lived in Woomera for seven
years and worked on the Rocket
Range. Moved back to Sydney and are now living in Northern
New South Wales in a Sub-tropical Paradise.
I have never
regretted having migrated to Australia
and have had a wonderful life here. Since it now comes to an anniversary of the
tragic drama at sea, when we saved the most important thing, namely our lives
(except for one gentleman) I often wondered what has become of all the other
passengers, where have they ended up and what life experiences they have
encountered?
It would be
very interesting to hear from any other survivor after 50 years in Australia.
Please contact
me on our e-mail: lothars@iprimus.com.au
Mrs. Ingeburg
Schwertner (nee Dammasch)
Another passenger from this ill-fated voyage!
My name is Jochen
(Joe) Wagner and I also was on the MS Skaubryn when she caught fire. Sadly I
lost all my belongings that day, and I had no insurance! I read the story about
Inge and I remembered her when we stayed in Aden. I was in a group in
an Army Camp in the dessert and there were some girls who came to visit at
times, there was a Gerda von Baron as well as Inge, although I cannot remember all names, there was also
in our group a tall chap by the name of Paul Seemann,
I often wonder what happened to them all.
I came originally from Bielefeld
and was on the way to Australia
and I live in Kingston Tasmania,
and I have lived in Tasmania
since 1960. I would like to hear from anyone who knew me. You can email me at: otto1234@bigpond.com.
Joe Wagner.
Skaubryn
Index
Page
1 … The Skaubryn story
Page 2
… The Woering family at sea
Page 3 … March 31, 1958
– Skaubryn on fire & the Harold Weiss story
Page 4
… Ingeburg Dammasch (she later
married in Australia
to become Mrs. Schwertner) is a survivor
from the last voyage and she is looking for fellow passengers of Skaubryn’s final voyage
– Also: the Jochen (Joe) Wagner story
Page 5
… The Lerche Family sails for Australia
in 1957
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