Retired March 2002 from London Ship Managers Ltd. as Purchasing and Supply Manager for their ?8 refrig.cargo vessels

Dates presently ‘hazy’ and will be firmed up as memory returns,

Joined Passenger Dept., Bond Street, March 1959 as Jnr.Clerk  

Transferred Sea Staff

Admin Dept. Greenly House EC3.

Joined Seastaff as Pursers Clerk October 1960 on Stirling Castle – 3 voyages.

Rhodesia Castle 1960 as Pursers Cler/Asst.Purser/Snr.Asst.Purser until 1965    (Vessel in collision in Channel/repaired Southampton)

Edinburgh Castle as 2nd.Purser 1965

Kenya Castle as Snr.Asst.Purser 1966    (Zanzibar Revolt??)

Seconded Marine Projects Department for Emergency Drill Revision 1966 to ??1968

Second Purser Windsor Castle 1968-1970

Transferred Management Services Dept. London 1970 - ??1975

Asst.Catering Superintendent Cayzer Irvine Shipping (CIS) 1977

Catering Superintendent CIS 1979 -     (Believe it was during this time that  De Nadai family/Papageorge took over company ownership)

Catering & Supply Superintendent CIS/London Ship Managers 1981-??1999

Purchasing and Supply Manager LSM 1999-2002



Service Record

From

To

Passenger Clerk

Bond Street

3/1959

1960

Stirling Castle

Purser’s Clerk

10/1960

3/1961

Rhodesia Castle

Purser’s Clerk

4/1961

10/1962

Rhodesia Castle

Asst Purser

1963

5/1965

Edinburgh Castle

2nd Purser

7/1965

1/1966

Kenya Castle

Asst Purser

2/1966

6/1966

Shore Secondment

1966

1968

Windsor Castle

2nd Purser

3/1968

1/1970

Management Services

London

1970

1975

David Gordon MacMillan

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