When City of Port Adelaide Enfield Mayor Gary Johannson decided to grant Freedom of the City to the Merchant Navy on September 3, he recalled his grandfather Fredrick Johannson and his aunt Adelaide Johannson.
Frederick was a merchant seaman who joined the Belfast registered vessel Carmmoney in Gothenberg, signed off in Port Lincoln in 1909 and settled in South Australia.
Adelaide Johansson signed on as a Stewardess at Port Victoria in the merchant vessel SS Viking just after World War Two.
She became a Cape Horner on the Viking, which was the last windjammer to leave Australia.
Frederick and Adelaide would have been impressed if they had known that Port Adelaide would become the first port in the world to grant the Merchant Navy this honour on Australia’s first ever Merchant Navy Day.
Australia's first annual Merchant Navy Day will be celebrated with a commemorative
march and the Freedom of the City ceremony on September 3.
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