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)