Henry Hulme Arton

[John Arton]

SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD

Full Name

Henry Hulme Arton

Discharge Book Number

R26709

Department

Deck

Your Rank/Rating

Cadet to Master

Which Ships were you on and When

Tudor Star 10/2/1926 to08/04/1927

Empire star 20/06/1927 to 14/11/1927

Norman Star 23/11/1927 to 28/01/1928

Celtic Star 17/02/1928 to 02/03/1928

Norman Star 06/03/1928 to 17/01/1929

Oregan Star 02/03/1929 to 25/04/1930

Sultan Star 12/06/1931 to 25/09/1931

Avelona Star 24/09/1932 to 11/11/1932

Gothic Star 18/11/1932 to 09/03 1933

Royal Star 21/10/1933 to 17/01/1935

Iroquois 02/06/1936 to 19/12/1938

Imperial Star 03/02/1937 to18/01/1939

Albion Star 19/08/1939 to19/06/1939

Trojan Star 19/08/1939 to 28/12/1939

Viking Star 13/07/1940 to 22/09/1940

H.M.T Salvonia 09/10/1940 to 09/05/1946

H.M.R.T Prudent 10/05/1946 to 14/07/1946

H.M.R.T St. Olaves No dates

Marinia (Salvage tug) 05/1946 to 02/1950

Hercules (Salvage tug) 02/1950 to 10/1952

Midhurst 29/12/1952 to 07/11/1953

Wellington Star 01/12/1953 to 17/12/1953

Freemantle Star 21/01/1954 to 28/01/1954

Tacoma Star 14/02/1954 to 22/07/1954

Freemantle Star 05/08/1954 to 16/09/1954

Argentina Star 01/10/1954 to 22/10/1954

Uruguay Star

Dunedin Star 03/11/1954 to 13/11/1954

Geelong Star 23/12/1954 to 27/05/1954

Tasmania Star 18/07/1955 to 22/02/1957

Vancouver Star 1957

Newcastle Star 1958

California Star 1959

Australia Star 1960

Notes:

Died at sea April 1960 departing Durban as Master on the Australia Star.
This is my fathers sea service.

[Graham Evans]

I sailed with Harry Arton on his final trip whilst I was 4th Mate of the Aussie Star. He was a very popular Captain, I had the job of turning around and taking him back to Durban for the autopsy. We sailed the next day for Hobart, and buried him at sea. I used to have some photos but they got lost with everything else during the divorce.

[John Arton]

Graham
Nice to hear from you and your thoughts on my father. As I was quite young when he died and in those days you were all on long trips I did not get the chance to really get to know him properly and all I have left of him is a few memories and some of his old papers including his war service un rescue tugs and his time spent in salvage after the war before he rejoined Blue Star in the early fifties. My mother kept in contact with dads best friend capt. Henry Dare and I believe that he and my father were two of the first ever Blue Star deck cadets. A Peter Stacy who was on the ship at the time of dads death sent me some photos of the burial at sea and if you want I could send you them so you can see if you are on them. Peter lives in New Zealand now.
rgds
JA

[Keith at Tregenna]

Just the dates alone, suggest an element of heroism.

LEST WE FORGET !

K.

[Graham Evans]

Capt. John -Thanks for your info. re.your Father. I will not be in any photos of the funeral,as I was on watch at the time and had to look after 2 children, 5 or 6 yrs.old who had not been told what had happened. Your Father was very fond of them and spent a lot of time with them, reading stories and so forth, so they would have been very upset.
That was a long trip, 9 months, but when she arrived in London, we had to spend 5 weeks at anchor off Southend due to the dockers being on strike. Ships were backed up from Tilbury to Harwich. The nosey parkers came on board and sealed up the Bond and Beer Locker, so we soon ran out of fags and booze, unheard of disaster in the B.S.L. in those days. I am sure that this strike was the beginning of the end for the London Docks, the seamen's strike a few years later was the final nail in the coffin. Incidentally, as a lowly uncertificated officer, I did not say much to your Father, the only thing that sticks in my mind was an occasion one night when he came up to me on the Bridge and whispered in my ear- "don't spend so much time in the chart room, Mr. Evans". I always remembered that in later life and always tried not to shout at the filipinos, chinese, baluchis, nigerians, yemenis etc. Sometimes with great difficulty!!!