 |  | | | The Ship of Brides | 23 June 2005 | | |
Recalling an epic journey from Australia
On the second of July 1946 – to the strains of a brass band – HMS Victorious steamed out of Sydney Harbour with an unusual cargo… six hundred war brides on route to Britain to meet their husbands.
It was a journey full of tensions. The women were very young – two only fifteen – on a journey round the world to meet men they’d spent little time with. And the ship was filled with sailors – eleven hundred young men bewitched by the brides.
Joy Hamilton was one of those women, sailing to meet her husband John to whom she’s been married for 59 years. She joins us from Bristol. Ray Barker was one of the crew on board, just 24 at the time. And Jojo Moyes is the writer who uncovered many stories of the voyage in the course of researching her novel Ship of Brides.
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