Service Record

From

To

Rochester Castle

Cadet

8/1942

Operation Pedestal


Athlone Castle

3rd Officer

1950

1952

Stirling Castle

3rd Officer

1952

6/1952

James Whadcoat

From Hugh Ferguson - Ship’s Nostalgia

Jimmy later became a Trinity House Channel pilot based in Gravesend. His was a familiar face to us South Channel pilots as we passed one another during pilotage duties.

As such we rarely had a chance of chatting about anyting other than piloting and so I never got to learn anything of his war history as was the case with ALL other pilots of whom we learned more of after they had died.

War experiences rarely ever featured, as a topic of conversation, in those long ago post war days.

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