Traditionally, children of members of the ship’s company are christened using the upturned ship’s bell as a font. Following the ceremony the holy water is poured over the ship’s side to the sound of Pipe the Side on bos’n’s calls. Frequently, the names of the children are engraved on the ship’s bell.
Star’s bell has the names of seventy-nine children christened between 1956 and 1996 but there are certainly many other children whose names were not engraved on the bell.
Here is the list in alphabetical order:
Aitken, Joanne Ilene 03/05/1960
Aitken, John Keith 26/05/1957
Bardy, Gordon Dwayne 21/06/1963
Beaumont, Brian Lance 26/05/1957
Bell, Ryan Guy Spencer 06/06/1981
Bell, Shannon Patricia 12/02/1978
Bennett, Julie Anne 19/01/1964
Bethune, Christopher David 11/04/1976
Bethune, Jessica Cherith 30/12/1984
Bodden, Christopher James 22/05/1958
Bohill, Kathryn Janet 21/04/1957
Boland, Colleen Patricia 07/11/1957
Broderick, Melody Lynn 24/03/1963
Carnagie, Brenda Joyce 23/10/1960
Carnerie, Frances Jean 09/04/1961
Carnerie, Robert Charles 09/04/1961
Chalmers, Cameron Davis 02/06/1957
Chalmers, Duncan Andrew 14/06/1959
Cooper, Gary Richard 16/11/1986
Cove, Robert Millar 21/04/1957
Cozens, Andrew Haemsworth 19/10/1958
Dickinson, Rebecca St Clair 21/06/1970
Donaldson, Richard Edward 26/05/1957
Drebot, Christopher Taylor 16/06/1996
Ellis, Brent Christopher 29/09/1996
Elmes, Robert Howay 26/12/1966
Ewens, Lisa Alexander 15/05/1966
Giblet, Elizabeth Ann 23/10/1960
Gilleno, Ashley Lurraine 09/12/1990
Gilleno, Katelyn Marie 18/10/1992
Gilleno, Ryan Albert 18/10/1992
Glever, James Rea 18/11/1956
Hansell, Alan John 27/10/1963
Hansell, Brian James 23/10/1960
Hansell, Carol Anne 07/11/1957
Hansell, Ronald Leonard 18/11/1956
Heppel, Alexander Scott 13/05/1990
Hill, Debra Jean 12/06/1958
Hill, Kathleen (Robertson) 12/06/1958
Hodson, James Francis 23/10/1960
Jackson, Pamela Lee 22/10/1961
Jackson, Penelope Kate 22/10/1961
Jamieson, Grace Eleanor 04/02/1962
Jamieson, John Kenneth Auchinlech 19/01/1964
Jones, John Paul 19/01/1964
Kendall, Richard John 07/11/1957
Kenyon, Carol Joyce 28/02/1971
Laird, Catherine Anne 18/11/1956
Laird, Cynthia Rose 13/12/1959
Laird-Wilton, Caitlyn 06/12/1992
Laird-Wilton, Heather Victoria 06/12/1992
Lee, Frederick Williams 28/09/1969
Lee, Linda May 28/09/1969
Mason, Robert Curtis 22/10/1961
McCulloch, Sara Margaret Louise 21/10/1962
Murray, Teresa Lynn 25/02/1957
Mushing, David Edward 04/12/1966
Nevitt, Sandra Elaine 24/03/1963
Nevitt, Susan Elizabeth 24/03/1963
Parker, Donald Wilfred 09/04/1966
Pataracchia, Aaronello 13/08/1995
Robertson, Sarah Eleanor Ann 05/03/1989
Smedley, Kent Michael 19/12/1982
Smedley, Nora Ellen 19/10/1958
Stock, Kenneth James Calkwill 06/11/1977
Strange, Arthur Prevost 11/01/1981
Strange, Erica Lynn 11/01/1981
Taylor, Sherry Gai 18/04/1965
Trudel, Christoper Jean 28/07/1996
Trudel, David John 30/04/1994
Wainwright, Philip Scott 22/10/1961
Watson, Jamie Ann 12/06/1958
Watt, Colin James 22/10/1961
Watt, Derek Michael 27/10/1963
Withers, Leslie Anne 18/11/1956
Withers, Luke Scott 09/04/1961
Woodliffe, William Grant 27/10/1963
Woodrow, Andrew John Michael 14/05/1978
Woodrow, Michael Alan Philip 11/01/1981
Some baptisms that are not recorded on the bell:
9 September 2000 Lauren Jade Faux, born 14 December 1999, daughter of Lt(N) (Ret’d) Tamara Louise “Tammy” Faux & LS Steven Michael Faux
9 September 2000 Riley Robert Bennett, born 18 February 2000, son of PO1 David Ross Bennett & Tracey Lee Bennett
8 April 2001 Malcolm Stewart Ettrich, born 20 December 2000, son of Lt(N) (Ret’d) E. Mark Ettrich & Shelly Lynn Stewrat
31 May 2014 Deanna Victoria Menezes, born 24 September 2013, daughter of Lt(N) Neil Menezes & Lt(N) Suzanna Winsborough