This is an interesting scrapbook of the travels of the crew of USS Hickox in September 1954- February 1955. You can dynamically turn the pages of this PDF files online. If you search the text for "HMS Diadem", on Page 23, you’ll see a clipping from the Belfast Telegraph 2 Nov 1954:
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"The distinctive flush -decked, tall- funneled shapes of two American destroyers were to be seen in Chatham Dockyard shortly before dusk on Wednesday, when the two United States ships. Capcrton and Hickox. locked-ln for a six-day operational visit…. A comprehensive programme of hospitality has been organised by the Reserve Fleet host ship, H.M.S. Diadem."
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