Description: STORAGE m114 An iconic photograph SS MANTOLA BUILT 1921 P&O HERE IN WW2 SERVICE LARGE PHOTO 24/20 CM Roald Dahl REMINISCED The ship that was carrying me away from England to Africa in the autumn of 1938 was called the SS Mantola. She was an old paint-peeling tub of 9,000 tons with a single tall funnel and a vibrating engine that rattled the teacups in their saucers on the dining-room table. The voyage from the Port of London to Mombasa would take two weeks and on the way, we were to call in at Marseilles, Malta, Port Said, Suez, Port Sudan, and Aden. Nowadays you can fly to Mombasa in a few hours and you stop nowhere and nothing is fabulous anymore, but in 1938 a journey like that was full of stepping-stones and East Africa was a long way from home, especially if your contract with the Shell Company said that you were to stay out there for three years at a stretch. I was twenty-two when I left. I would be twenty-five before I saw my family again.
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Year of Production: 1940
Country/Region of Manufacture: Lebanon
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