I mentioned on a previous post that Victor Leslie HOOKINS made his home in Canada and worked with young people at the Malibu Club. He may just have be doing a scouting expedition towards his future homeland when he travelled into New York aboard the ss Drakensberg Castle (originally called Empire Allenby) the day before his 24th birthday. You may not be able to see that the ship was carrying a locomotive on the foredeck and cowsheds on the after deck - interesting cargo. I wonder where they ended up?
In January of the following year (1947) Victor arrived in New York again aboard the English Prince. She was built in 1942 in Sunderland and launched the following year. She was chartered in 1953 but retained her name and was returned to the Prince Line in 1957. In 1961 she was sold to a Liberian Shipping Company when she was re-named Simos and 2 years later she was transferred to the Greek flag. She went aground near Cape St Vincent in 1972 and although refloated she was condemned as unseaworthy ad laid up in Setubal before being towed to Bilbao the following year for breaking up.
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