SERVICE RECORD

B&C Cadet Agreement - September 1970

OND Phase 1 – School of Navigation – September 1970 to July 1971

OND Phase 2 – School of Navigation – January 1973 to July 1973

Certificate of Competency as Second Mate – December 1974

University of Southampton - BSc Hons Nautical Studies October 1975 to June 1978

PERSONAL SUMMARY

Sought opportunity for a career at sea following educational cruise on ss Nevasa in 1968.

Joined B&C September 1970 and enjoyed service record shown.

Whilst J4O Pendennis Castle, met Viv travelling as passenger (to nurse in SA) - married 4 years later, 2 children.

Personal aspirations and decline of B&C fleet led me to follow a degree education (working coastal as “student holiday job!) and leave B&C in 1978.

Final discharge book entry was my only month's service as 2/O.

Joined Thoresen Car Ferries as shore-side operational manager and later followed a career in customer service management with various major organisations.

Living in Wimborne, Dorset. Retain a strong interest in 1940-1980 general cargo shipping and post-1940 passenger shipping.

Aboard Reina del Mar in Summer 1974 surrounded by a crowd

including ChiliHo Rosie Cations and X2O Ian Brimelow (both right of picture)