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[Katrina Murphy]

Hi

Thanks for allowing me to join this site.

My hobby is doing family trees and my father in law was onboard the HMS Unicorn in the 1950's.

I am currently researching the Adelaide Star around 1963 to 1964 and looking to see which ports it docked into. My mum's cousin Norman Preston was a merchant seaman on the Adelaide Star and MV Adelaide Star from 1957.

Tina

[Doc Vernon]

Hello Katrina
Welcome and thanks for joining us here!
I hope that you will get some good response from your query!
I will see what I can come up with!
All the best and I hope you will enjoy the site!
Cheers

[Doc Vernon]

Just for interest sake Katrina that all
Adelaide Star 1

I found these Pots of call but a lot earlier however they may have been similar?
1) London, Las Palmas?, St. Vincent?, Cape Town, Mossel Bay (optional), Port Elizabeth, East London, Natal (Durban), Lourenço Marques, Beira (optional), Townsville, Port Alma, Brisbane, Sydney.
(Some vessels proceeded to New Zealand from Australia.)
Return voyages: Sydney, Melbourne, Freemantle, St. Vincent?, Las Palmas?, London. 2) London, Panama Canal, Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton.

also
London, Boulogne, Lisbon, Madeira, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires.
Called at Plymouth before Boulogne on return voyages.

Schedule of Outward Services - To: Australia New Zealand South Africa Portugal South America North Pacific, July 1961-

1961

Sailings of Argentina Star, Uruguay Star, Paraguay Star, Ulster Star, Corona, Colorado Star, Columbia Star, California Star, Catalina Star, Canadian Star, Canberra Star, Newcastle Star, New Zealand Star, Tasmania Star, Adelaide Star, Hobart Star, Auckland Star, Australia Star, Gladstone Star, Queensland Star, Fremantle Star and Scottish Star

[Doc Vernon]

Just wonder if by chance !!??? LOL

ON THE FLIGHT DECK OF HMS UNICORN. DECEMBER 1950, ON BOARD THE REPLENISHMENT CARRIER HMS UNICORN, SERVING OFF KOREA. (A 31795)

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WITH REPLENISHMENT CARRIER HMS UNICORN. DECEMBER 1950, ON BOARD THE REPLENISHMENT CARRIER HMS UNICORN, SERVING OFF KOREA. (A 31800)

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q...F3&FORM=WRVORC

[Doc Vernon]

would your F-I-L be on this following site at all??

https://www.forcesreunited.co.uk/Units/1337/hms-unicorn

[Katrina Murphy]

Sadly my father in law passed away 5 years ago.

He left us with a lot of good memories from his time on the Unicorn. We have his navy paperwork, badge, his shoe shine tin and a photograph folder which contains photo's taken in every port the ship entered in the mid 50's. Looking at the photo album you would think he had been on holiday. He gained the love of dark rum and smoked a pipe all from his time on the ship.

[Doc Vernon]

Agreements and crew lists often also contain integral logs giving details of ships and voyages.
So possibly you may also be able to track Ships Movements through these at National Archives

Search results: 184324 | The National Archives

This Link is for the Adelaide Star Off Number 184324

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Katrina.
Welcome to the site, which I'm sure you will enjoy.
I was up in Korea in May June 52, I was on the Wave baron a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker oiling the fleet, can't remember oiling a carrier but might have it was a long timer ago.
This is a picture of the Wave Baron oiling a carrier could be the Unicorn your father\in\law was on.
Cheers Des




Wave Baron and Carrier.JPG

[j.sabourn]

Hi Des can remember must have been 53 or 54 either in Yokohama or Moji. One of the carriers coming alongside,although think it was American. She had mostly propellor aircraft on board if not all were maybe. Had them all lined up on the flight deck facing outboard. Used them as one giant thruster to get the ship alongside broadside on to the quay was very worth seeing and a good fete of seamanship. Today I would imagine the modern carrier would have thrusters and dropped propellers coming through the hull and every other orifice. I was on a small offshore vessel ex norwegian where when the ship was on station used to drop a shaft through the hull with a propellor on the end , shut down the 2 main engines and go on battery's. Nice quiet life depending on the weather of course. Got 4 knots out of the battery's. Ship was only about 1000 GRT. So maybe not feasible for larger vessels. They already have plug in cars, surprised they didn't go further with ships. Cheers JWS.

[Jim Brady]

I think that the Adelaide Star was the first ship into the new Seaforth Dock meat berth.That is when we had the lamb coming from NZ.
Regards.
Jim.B.