Hello Maxine. Welcome aboard the good ship "Ships nostalgia" As for your questions about your fathers ships, there is a wealth of knowledge on this site and i can almost guarantee someone will be along shortly with the answers you require. possibly with pictures too. Enjoy all this great site has to offer

 

Welcome onboard to SN and enjoy the voyage. Abit info for you

Manchester Progress Built 1938 by Blythswood,Scotstoun for owner Manchester Liners Broken up in Split former Yugoslavia 15.01.66

Dalcross Built 1930 by Scotts SB Greenock for Owner United S.N.LTD(Campbell Brothers) Newcastle changed names in 1947 to Ingor Johanne in 1948 to Hydraios 2 and in 1959 to Ares. Wrecked off Elephant Point, Somali on 13.07.64

Wanderer Built 1925 by Connell,Scotstoun for owner T AND J Harrison Liverpool Broken up in Milford Haven on 05.03.49

Dorelian built 1923 by Henderson, Meadowside for owner F.Leyland and Son Broken up Dalmuir in Febuary 1954

 

Maxine, a warm welcome to you. Your introduction piece is interesting and it is good to see that it has brought constructive responses. - Thank you for joining the community; enjoy the site and all it has to offer, and we very much look forward to your postings with further news. Bon Voyage

 

Try the TNA Kew for any medal listings your Father may have been entitled to. copy and paste this link then put your fathers surname in the quick search box then see if you can identify by date of birth etc
Ray
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...mary.asp?searchType=quicksearch&pagenumber=1&queryType=1&catid=*&query=heselton

 

maxine,welcome im a new member and if theres one thing ive found out about s,n is if you cannot find here it doesnt exist. good luck albert.s.i

 

Welcome aboard to you and your father from East Yorkshire, Maxine.
I see you've got some answers already which is what this ship is all about.
We have a good radio department and tell your father that he's expected on watch at midnight. The radio room is two decks up from the bar, just behind the chartroom.
Meanwhile look around and enjoy the trip.

 

The Official No’s for the ships will help find the history using
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ put the vessels name or ON in the search box and you will be able to read out the details of each to your Father
Dorelian ON 147212
Dalcross ON 161546
Manchester Progress ON 147432
Wanderer ON 147294
Also put the ships name in the search box on the ancestry .com site and you may find his name listed together with other members of the crew ??
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...0=&_82004280=&_F0002841=dalcross&gskw=&prox=1&sbo=t&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-c

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/...anderer&gskw=&prox=1&sbo=t&gst=40&db=&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=allgs&gss=IMAGE&gst=&so=3
Ray

 

Greetings Maxine and welcome to SN.As you see it does not take too long to get some answers. Bon voyage.

 

Welcome from Lancashire.

I hope you enjoy the site and wish you success in finding the material you are looking for.

Please extend the best wishes of all site members to your father.

Regards,

Brian

 

Welcome to you and your dad and greetings from Londonderry,
Cheers
Fred

 

Welcome

Maxine,

A warm welcome to you and your Dad from the Isle of Anglesey!
I hope you thoroughly enjoy the SN experience and get many happy hours entertainment from your membership. (Thumb)

 

Ahoy,
Just for a start,here the MANCHESTER PROGRESS 1938 & the WANDERER 1925.