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Pictures of the naming ceremony, the engine room, galley and bridge are at http://www.steve-read.co.uk/indynaming .

Just found this thread.

February 1971 - a memorable month, when Britain dropped shillings and pence (£-s-d) and went decimal (£-p).

My first trip on a ship, and first on a plane, was to join SS Uganda on a school cruise from Naples to Venice.

My schoolmates (King Edward VI Grammar School, Nuneaton, Warwickshire) and I were in Stanhope Dormitory.

Hazy memories include being woken each morning by the Masters-At-Arms yelling "Feet on the deck!" ... a blue night-light right by my head on a top bunk ... juke box selectors like the ones you see in Johnny Rocket's ... falling desperately in love with a girl from Myton High School, Warwick, who I never saw again ... and having a sneaky cigarette with a teacher!

Great days.