Commodore Cambridge, who carried out his early training at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, has been with the the Union-Castle Line since 1923.   

He served with the Company as a junior officer until the outbreak of war in 1939, when he was called up for RNR Service.   

During the war he was awarded the DSC and was mentioned in dispatches.  He returned to the Company after the war and his first command came in 1947.  He has been in command of the Pendennis Castle since 1964.   

He is a Younger Brother of Trinity House.

This photograph brings to mind a story my father (Capt C.S.G. Keen, Marine Supt Southampton) told me.

He and Capt Cambridge got on together very well.

Cambridge always had his pet Siamese cat with him at sea and was very conscious of any possible 'cat smell' in his quarters.

My father knowing this on sailing day or arrival on standing at the door would sniff the air,

"You got a cat Captain?"

Owen Keen