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HMS Ulster Ships Program
1961-63
Submitted by Ken Jones
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Arrived |
Month |
Port |
Depart |
Month |
Notes |
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1961 |
|
|
1962 |
|
|
|
14 |
Dec |
Re-Commissioned at Devonport |
09 |
Feb |
Delayed due to galley fire on 2 day of commission
|
|
1962 |
|
|
|
|
(Thermostat fault not passed on from last commission) |
|
15 |
Feb |
Work-Up at Portland |
29 |
Mar |
|
|
29 |
Mar |
Devonport |
19 |
Apr |
|
|
22 |
Apr |
Punta Delgado, The Azores |
22 |
Apr |
|
|
28 |
Apr |
Bermuda |
28 |
Apr |
|
|
30 |
Apr |
San Juan Puerto Rico |
04 |
May |
|
|
04 |
May |
Beef Island V.I's |
07 |
May |
|
|
09 |
May |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
12 |
May |
|
|
12 |
May |
Carriacou, Grenadine |
17 |
May |
|
|
18 |
May |
Georgetown, British Guiana |
28 |
May |
Rioting |
|
29 |
May |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
30 |
May |
|
|
30 |
May |
Scarborough, Tobago |
03 |
Jun |
|
|
04 |
Jun |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
04 |
Jun |
|
|
06 |
Jun |
Willemstad, Curacao |
06 |
Jun |
|
|
07 |
Jun |
Kingston, Jamaica |
07 |
Jun |
|
|
09 |
Jun |
Nassau, Bahamas |
12 |
Jun |
|
|
14 |
Jun |
Bermuda |
07 |
Jul |
AMP then loaded hurricane stores |
|
09 |
Jul |
Nassau, Bahamas |
09 |
Jul |
|
|
10 |
Jul |
Key West, Florida |
10 |
Jul |
|
|
13 |
Jul |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
13 |
Jul |
|
|
14 |
Jul |
Phillipsburg, St. Maartin |
15 |
Jul |
|
|
16 |
Jul |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
25 |
Jul |
|
|
28 |
Jul |
Georgetown, Grand Cayman |
31 |
Jul |
|
|
1st |
Aug |
Kingston, Jamaica |
07 |
Aug |
Jamaican independence parade |
|
11 |
Aug |
Bermuda |
26 |
Aug |
|
|
29 |
Aug |
Port of Spain, Trinidad |
05 |
Sep |
Trinidad & Tobago independence parade |
|
06 |
Sep |
Canouan Island, Grenadines |
09 |
Sep |
|
|
10 |
Sep |
Roseau, Dominica |
14 |
Sep |
|
|
15 |
Sep |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
27 |
Sep |
|
|
29 |
Sep |
Plymouth, Montserrat |
02 |
Oct |
|
|
02 |
Oct |
Charlestown, Nevis |
04 |
Oct |
|
|
04 |
Oct |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
05 |
Oct |
|
|
13 |
Oct |
Bermuda |
12 |
Nov |
Landed hurricane stores and AMP |
|
Cuban Missile Crisis 22-28th October |
|
14 |
Nov |
English Harbour, Antigua |
15 |
Nov |
|
|
15 |
Nov |
St. Johns, Antigua |
18 |
Nov |
|
|
19 |
Nov |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
19 |
Nov |
|
|
20 |
Nov |
Road Bay, Anguilla |
22 |
Nov |
Christmas & New Year in Barbados |
|
22 |
Nov |
Basseterre, St. Kitts |
26 |
Nov |
|
|
27 |
Nov |
San Juan Puerto Rico |
27 |
Nov |
|
|
28 |
Nov |
Castries, St. Lucia |
03 |
Dec |
|
|
04 |
Dec |
Chaguaramas, Trinidad |
14 |
Dec |
Mardi Gras week Travelled to Mexico City for independence
ceremony |
|
15 |
Dec |
St. Georges, Grenada |
18 |
Dec |
|
|
19 |
Dec |
Bequla, Grenadines |
21 |
Dec |
|
|
22 |
Dec |
Bridgetown, Barbados |
01 1963 |
Jan |
|
|
1963 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
02 |
Jan |
Roadtown, Tortola |
05 |
Jan |
|
|
05 |
Jan |
Charlotte Amalie, St, Thomas V.I's |
09 |
Jan |
|
|
09 |
Jan |
San Juan, Puerto Rico |
10 |
Jan |
|
|
12 |
Jan |
Bermuda |
11 |
Feb |
|
|
14 |
Jan |
Key West, Florida |
16 |
Feb |
|
|
18 |
Jan |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
23 |
Feb |
Mardi Gras week |
|
25 |
Jan |
Vera Cruz, Mexico |
28 |
Feb |
Travelled to Mexico City for independence ceremony |
|
(26 |
Feb |
Mexico City |
01 |
Mar) |
Independence Day parade - RN was involved |
|
03 |
Mar |
Anguilla Keys, Bahamas |
03 |
Mar |
Armed landings and sweeps of Bahamian Keys |
|
04 |
Mar |
Key West, Florida |
04 |
Mar |
|
|
04 |
Mar |
Elbow Key, Bahamas |
04 |
Mar |
|
|
06 |
Mar |
Norfolk, Virginia |
06 |
Mar |
|
|
07 |
Mar |
Washington D.C. |
12 |
Mar |
Loan of the Harrison Chronometer to the Smithsonian Institute |
|
12 |
Mar |
Norfolk, Virginia |
14 |
Mar |
|
|
16 |
Mar |
Bermuda |
25 |
Mar |
Land tropical stores at Dockyard Ireland Island |
|
04 |
Apr |
Devonport |
|
|
|
 |
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Remember the old Long Bar not to many steps from the Chester
Cup -Happy Days |
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Article submitted from local Plymouth newspaper by Sid
Anning 1966-67 Commission |
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submitted by Geoff (Bungy)
Williams 2015
Then & now |
Geoff Williams & CERA Findlay Wilson
June 1962 Puerto Rico |
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