I think this is the Lycaon - but the name is not clear.
Older expats with long leaves may have travelled on these Blue Funnel ships. They carried passengers - 16 to 20 or so. The travel allowance covered the cost of sailing to the UK (or elsewhere) and flying back - or vice versa, or even sailing both ways if you had enough time. They went to places off the beaten track, food was fantastic, booze cheaper than cheap and within a couple of weeks passengers and crew were as one. And the crew certainly knew where to go when ashore ... :)
I believe Shaw Saville and Holland America also had similar passenger-cargo ships.
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1965
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Blue Funnel Line ships
We travelled on the "Antilochus" in 1953 - it took us 6 weeks to get from Hong Kong to London Docks
As far as I remember, it was good fun (I was only 5 at the time) but we returned to HK on the Lloyd Triestino ship "Victoria" and loved it so much that the "Victoria" & her sister ship the "Asia" were our preferred transport for future leaves!