Service Record

From

To

Walmer Castle

4th Officer

1904

9/1906

Kildonan Castle

4th Officer

10/1906


Norman

3rd Officer

8/1909


Cawdor Castle

2nd Officer

1912

1913

Walmer Castle

2nd Officer

8/1913


Dundrum Castle

Master

11/1927

9/1928

Durham Castle

Master

7/1929

10/1929

Ripley Castle

Master

10/1929

4/1931

Durham Castle

Master

5/1931


Chepstow Castle

Master

2/1932


Rovuma

Master

6/1932

6/1933

Sandown Castle

Master

7/1933

2/1934

Gloucester Castle

Master

5/1934

9/1934

Grantully Castle

Master

10/1934

10/1935

Llandaff Castle

Master

11/1935

6/1936

Llangibby Castle

Master

8/1936

9/1937

Dunnottar Castle

Master

10/1937

10/1938

Windsor Castle

Master

10/1938

1/1940

Retired

1/1940


Died

21 April 1965

Aged 88

Capt Ralph W Goodacre

RD RNR

Capt Goodacre trained aboard HMS Conway, a Napoleonic warship moored off Liverpool. Oct 1891 - Dec 1893

He joined Union-Castle Line and evenutally commanded Windsor Castle. He retired in 1940 three years before his beloved ship was sunk by aerial bombing.

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