1st Visit - 1931

 

29th August to 1st January 1932

 

5 months

Ships travelled on :

 

SS RAJPUTANA

SS ROMA

SS GEORGE WASHINGTON

SS BREMEN

SS NARKUNDA

 

 

2nd Visit - 1932

 

24th March to 15th July

 

about 3.5 months

( 16 weeks )

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS CONTE ROSSO

SS BREMEN

SS MONTEREY

SS EMPRESS OF JAPAN

SS KAISER-i-HIND

 

 

3rd Visit - 1932

 

18th July to 5th September

 

about 1.5 months

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS KAISER-i-HIND

SS AUSONIA

SS VICTORIA

 

 

4th Visit - 1932 - 3

 

21st November to 2nd February '33

 

about 2.5 months

 

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS CONTE VERDE

SS ESPERIA

SS BALOERAN

 

 

 

5th Visit - 1933

 

12th June to 4th August

 

3 weeks

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS VICTORIA

 

 

 

6th Visit - 1933

 

25th September to 14th November

 

about 7 weeks

 

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS CONTE VERDE

SS VICEROY OF INDIA

 

 

 

7th Visit - 1934 

 

9th June to 2nd August

 

about 3 weeks

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS MONGOLIA

SS STRATHNAVER

 

 

 

8th Visit - 1934 - 5

 

15th November to 16th February

 

3 months

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS TUSCANIA

SS MAJESTIC

SS EMPRESS OF CANADA

SS FUSHIMI MARU

 

 

 

 

9th Visit - 1936

 

20th October to 23rd November

 

4.5 weeks

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS VICEROY OF INDIA

 

Aeroplane travelled on :

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS  (Hadley-Page 42) Karachi - Gwadar -

Sharjar - Doha - Manama - Kuwait City - Basra - Baghdad, Iraq.

 

 

 

10th Visit - 1937

 

31st July to 20th November

 

3.5 months (16 weeks)

 

Ships travelled on :

 

SS STRATHNAVER

SS CIRCASSIA

 

 

 

 11th Visit - 1952

 

18th April to 23rd August

 

over 4 months (17 weeks)

 

Aeroplanes travelled on :

 

TWA - Flight 905 ; Bombay - New York

PAN AM - Flight 50; New York - London

SWISSAIR - Flight 111; London - Zurich

AIR FRANCE - Flight 437; Geneva - Paris

AIR FRANCE - Flight 180; Paris - Marseilles - Karachi

SCINDIA AIR SERVICES - Flight 3; Karachi - Bombay

 

 

 12th Visit - 1956

 

16th July to 17th August

 

1 month (4 weeks)

 

Aeroplanes travelled on :

AIR INDIA - Flight 103; Bombay - Zurich - London

PAN AM - Flight 71; London - New York

NATIONAL AIRLINES- Flight 361; Newark-Wilmington, NC

NATIONAL AIRWAYS-Flight 320;Wilmington-Washington.. 

AMERICAN AIRLINES - Flight 655; Washington DC - L.A.

UNITED AIRLINES - Flight 465; LA - San Francisco,Ca.

PAN AM - Flight 841; San Francisco -Honolulu-Fiji -Sydney

T.A.A. - Flight TN 533; Sydney - Melbourne, Vic.

                                                               A.N.A. - Flight 920; Melbourne - Sydney, N.S.W.

                                                                        QANTAS - Flight EM 535; Sydney - Darwin -Singapore - Bombay     

 

 13th Visit - 1958

 

15th May to 8th June

 

about 3.5 weeks

 

 Aeroplanes travelled on :

TWA - Flight 881; Bombay - Cairo - Rome

TWA - Flight 835; Rome - Gander - New York

NATIONAL AIRWAYS - Flight 325; New York- Wilmington

NATIONAL AIR. - Flight 326;Wilmington-Washington, DC

TWA - Flight 47; Washington DC - Los Angeles, CA.

TWA - Flight 77; Los Angeles - San Francisco, CA.

QANTAS - Flight 743; San Francisco - Honolulu-Sydney

Flight ?; Sydney - Brisbane, QLD., Australia

Flight ?, Brisbane - Sydney, NSW.

                                                               BRITISH AIRWAYS - Flight 713; Sydney - Bombay, India.