Midshipman Richard Dale-- Part 4: 1967 Was a Highpoint of the Ceremony

**  Starting in 1932,  Captain Adams sent funds  for the wreaths used in the ceremony, but it was not until he retired from the Navy and returned home to Bermuda in 1963, that he was able to be present when the wreath was laid.  My  uncle, Richard Dale, was able to attend that year.

**  In 1967, the ceremony reached its peak when the United States agreed to send the frigate USS Luce for the occasion.  Personnel from the U.S. Bases in Bermuda, which had been established in the Second World War, also, participated.

**  After Captain Adams' untimely death in 1973, the service waned and eventually ceased when  the U.S. Forces withdrew  from Bermuda in 1995.  However, a meeting  between St. Georgian Beau  Evans and Louise  Reider sparked  the reintroduction of the ceremony in 2006.

Edward Dale closed with this remark:  "It gives me great pleasure to once again, 199 years after the death of my great- great- great grand uncle, Midshipman Richard Dale, to express the heartfelt gratitude of the Dale family."

--Brock-Perry