Service Record

From

To

Clan Matheson

Cadet

9/1971

12/1971

Clan MacIver

Cadet

12/1971

3/1972

Argyllshire

Cadet

4/1972

1/1973

Edinburgh Castle

Cadet

1/1973

1/1973

Clan MacGregor

Cadet

9/1973

1/1974

Pendennis Castle

Cadet

1/1974

3/1974

Clan MacLeod

Cadet

3/1974

6/1974

Clan Matheson

Cadet

7/1974

7/1974

Reina Del Mar

4th Officer

7/1974

9/1974

King Charles

3rd Officer

1/1975

4/1975

Clan Ranald

3rd Officer

5/1975

9/1975

Clan MacIndoe

3rd Officer

12/1976

1/1977

Kinpurnie Castle

3rd Officer

7/1977

9/1977

Clan Menzies

2nd Officer

7/1978

8/1978

Left Company

1978


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

Motivated by an educational cruise aboard the SS Nevasa in 1968, I pursued a career at sea. I joined B&C in September 1970 and accumulated the service experience outlined above.

During my service as J4O on Pendennis Castle, I met Viv, a passenger traveling to South Africa to train as a nurse. We married four years later and have two children.

Driven by personal aspirations and the gradual decline of the B&C fleet, I pursued a university degree while working coastal jobs during student holidays. I left B&C in 1978, with my final discharge book entry marking my only month’s service as Second Officer.

Afterwards, I joined Thoresen Car Ferries as a shore-side operations manager and subsequently built a career in customer service management with several major organizations.

Currently residing in Wimborne, Dorset, I maintain a keen interest in general cargo shipping from 1940 to 1980, as well as passenger shipping post-1940.

Aboard Reina del Mar in Summer 1974 surrounded by a crowd

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

Steve Pink

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