Service Record

From

To

Edinburgh Castle

4th Radio Officer

6/1962

4/1963

Roxburgh Castle

Radio Officer

7/1963

8/1963

Stirling Castle

3rd Radio Officer

9/1963

10/1963

Kenilworth Castle

Radio Officer

11/1963

1965

Rhodesia Castle

3rd Radio Officer

5/1965

1965

Reina Del Mar

3rd Radio Officer

12/1965

3/1966

Rhodesia Castle

2nd Radio Officer

4/1966

7/1966

Reina Del Mar

3rd Radio Officer

7/1966

11/1967

SA Vaal

3rd Radio Officer

11/1967

8/1968

Left

Company

8/1968


A little rundown of my life.

I first joined UCL on7 June 1962 as 4R/O on the Edinburgh Castle and left after signing off from the SA Vaal on 26 Aug 1968.

In the interim served on the Pendennis, Roxburgh, Stirling, Kenilworth, Rhodesia, Reina del Mar, Capetown, Kenya Castles.

Met my wife on board the Reina when she was a Purserette (Maureen Fisher) and got married in 67.  Just had our 56th Anniversary.

Joined the Diplomatic Wireless Service and had a first posting to St Helena sailing to Cape Town on the Windsor and up to St Helena on the Good Hope.  After an 18 month tour on the Island we left on the Southampton Castle.  This being our final contact with U-CL.

William Scobie

‘Bill’

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