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The Castel Bianco, Bremerhaven to Fremantle and Port Melbourne, 1950

Bremerhaven → Fremantle, Western Australia

The Castel Bianco sailed from Bremerhaven on 22 April 1950 with a party drawn from the Delmenhorst camp, reaching Fremantle on 17 May and Port Melbourne on 24 May. The transcribed roll for the Fremantle landing records country of birth rather than nationality across 889 entries: 475 born in Poland, 249 in Germany, 61 in Latvia, 24 in Russia and one in Ukraine. Ukrainians from interwar eastern Poland appear as born in Poland, those from the Soviet republic as born in Russia, and children born in the camps as born in Germany, so the column cannot be read as a count of Ukrainians.

22 April 1950

The Castel Bianco sails from Bremerhaven with a party from the Delmenhorst camp

Bremerhaven

Sources

International Refugee Organisation group resettlement to Australia: Castel Bianco passenger lists

Destination DownUnder: Your Story 2012, Olga's memoir

17 May 1950

The ship reaches Fremantle; the transcribed roll records country of birth across 889 entries

Sources

Passenger list, Castel Bianco, Bremerhaven to Fremantle, 1950

International Refugee Organisation group resettlement to Australia: Castel Bianco passenger lists

24 May 1950

The voyage ends at Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne

Sources

International Refugee Organisation group resettlement to Australia: Castel Bianco passenger lists

Sources

Passenger list, Castel Bianco, Bremerhaven to Fremantle, 1950

International Refugee Organisation group resettlement to Australia: Castel Bianco passenger lists

Destination DownUnder: Your Story 2012, Olga's memoir