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    Jul 24, 2020 5 minutes

    Cardiff coasters

    I enjoyed the fascinating article about motor coasters (SM, June), particularly the interesting photograph of Carita. When I was a clerk in a Cardiff shipping office in the early 1960s, there was a Carita making regular trips to Bideford with coal. I wonder if it could it be the same ship as that featured in the article? I love your magazine.

    Justin Andersen
    Swansea

    HMS Ark Royal

    I enjoyed the article about HMS Ocean (SM, May) and the wonderful photo on page 45 which is, of course, of HMS Ark Royal, confusingly carrying the deck recognition letter ‘O’. She still has the port forward 4.5-inch guns, which date the photo to 1955 or 1956, and the prototype Sea Vixen on deck means it is 1956, when the first deck landing trials were carried out.

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