CURIOUSLY, growing up listening to her father’s tales of adventures, Ros Clark never acquired the taste for her own – until now.

The 30-year-old Bridport postwoman is giving up her delivery round and setting out to find the islanders who rescued her dad after his boat was shipwrecked during his six-year, 48,000-mile, round-the-world trip.

Commander Victor Clark was in the Royal Navy for 27 years, the last five in the Admiralty.

During the war he won the DSC and bar for organising commando raids behind Japanese lines in Malaya, commanding the destroyer Anthony and serving on HMS Repulse during the chase of the Bismarck, before ending his war service in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

On his release from the Admiralty, he set off to follow in the wake of Drake’s Golden Hind.

But around the Cook islands disaster struck and his ketch foundered in a storm. He was taken in by the islanders of Palmerston who helped him rebuild his boat.

Now Ros is going back to that same island to the people who still remember her father.

She said: “In the 1950s my dad was sailing around the world and he got shipwrecked around the Palmerston Islands.

“He ended up living there for a year while the islanders chopped down their trees to mend his boat.

“My dad died a few years ago and now I want to go on a bit of an adventure. I want to go over there and meet the people who still remember him.

“This is my first big adventure. I have never really been into the idea of travelling but now I really want to.”

Commander Clark wrote a couple of books – one was an autobiography and one was on his world voyage called On the Wind of a Dream The Saga of ‘Solace’, published in 1960.

Ros added: “I don’t find it at all scary. Not knowing what’s ahead is all part of the fun.”