Seadogs Index C

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Seadogs Index C

All the names are listed alphabetically by first name.

Calvern Newby (aka Pixie)

Cam Fortune (Deceased)

Captain Clark

Captain Cowan

Captain Edgecombe

Captain Riddelsdell

Captain Wood

Carl Petty (aka Tom)

Carla Absalom

Carlo Gunetti

Carol Brown

Carol Faulkner (now Browne)

Carol Hammond

Carol Keane

Carole Gibbons

Caroline ? (Bars)

Caroline Binks

Caroline Brown

Catharine Hooper

Catharine's Memories include Pacific Princess, Sun Princess.

Cathy Hiscock

Cathy Jacey (now Leneghan)

Cec Smylie

Celia Cowan

Celia's Memories include Oriana, Uganda.

Celia Gore-Lloyd

Chalky White

Charles Carroll

Charles Caton

Charles Mullin

Charles Oxley

Charles' Memories include Canberra, Oriana, Pacific Princess, Rotterdam, Uganda.

Charlie ? (aka Chicken)

Charlie Curtis

Charlie Dodsworth

Charlie Gentle (aka Charles)

Charlie Hill

Charlie Newby (Deceased)

Charlie Page

Charlie Parry

Charlotte (Jokers 7)

Chas Allan

Cherokee (aka Wing Nut)

Cherry Orchard

Chris ?

Chris ?

Chris ? (Photog)

Chris Adams (aka Crash)

Chris Bale

Chris Bayne

Chris Benham (aka Blackman)

Chris Blake

Chris Boothe

Chris Bullen

Chris Chandler

Chris Chapman

Chris Cook

Chris Cowell

Chris Curran

Chris Dale

Chris Davies

Chris Evans

Chris Freeman (aka Mutley)

Chris Fuller (aka Moon Man)

Chris Hall

Chris Hart (Deceased)

Chris' Memories include Arcadia, Cathay, Himalaya, Nevasa, Oronsay, Orsova, Sea Princess, Strathbrora, Uganda.

Chris Hindley

Chris Holt

Chris Hooper

Chris Jordan

Chris Lawton (aka Basil or Fawlty)

Chris Lingham (aka Skeleton)

Chris Lund

Chris Mussett

Chris Rynd

Chris Sample

Chris Samson

Chris Skelley

Chris Smith

Chris Trainer (aka Stupid Boy)

Chris Winkley

Chris Wilks (Deceased)

Chris Wooding

Chris Wright

Chrissie ?

Chrissie Doogue

Chrissie Harrison (now Billet)

Christine Dorell

Christine Harwood (now Carney)

Christine Lovatt (now Barker)

Christine Stewart

Chuck Wideen

Cindy ? (ShoreEx)

Cindy Kent

Claire Trevaldwyn

Claudia ?

Cliff ?

Cliff Ellis

Cliff Mathews

Cliff's Memories include Island Princess, Uganda.

Cliff Merwood

Cliff's Memories include Canberra, Oriana, Uganda.

Cliff Perry

Clive Egerton

Clive Glover (aka GG)

Clive Melsom

Clive Milne Buckley

Clive Silo

Clive Stead

Colin ? (ABR)

Colin ? (Officer)

Colin Maiden

Clive Simpson

Colin Campbell

Colin Clayworth

Colin Davis

Colin Doughty

Colin Ellerby

Colin Gellatly

Colin Johnston

Colin Hindmarsh (Deceased)

Colin Imber (Deceased)

Colin Macphail (aka Macphailure)

Colin Maiden

Colin Pomeroy

Colin Thickbroom

Colin Thomas

Colin Wright

Colin Shanks

Colin Wilson

Colette Trigg

Conehead

Cony Cloughton

Corrie ? (WAP)

Craig ?

Craig Oakes

Craig Street

Cyril Smith

Calvern Newby (aka Pixie)

Photo & Narration courtesy of Steve Hodge

Broken Pixie - Calvern Newby (aka Pixie) AEO on Pacific Princess, he was 4 to 8 and was seriously broken after a week or two.

Carol Faulkner (now Browne)

Courtesy of Dave Jewkes

Carol was a WAP on Oriana and there's more photos of her in Dave Jewkes' memories.

Catharine Hooper

The above photo of the lovely Catharine was taken on the Sun Princess in 1981.

I originally wrote in this section that I didn't know in what capacity Catharine had served at sea but she has kindly corrected that with the following amazing and very impressive information;

I thought it might be helpful to update a little about me... while I was never on 'ship’s articles' as a bona fide crew member with the P&O ships, I spent quite a bit of time at sea in conjunction with my shoreside responsibilities in the USA. As a result, I came to be quite close to so many of our Seadog friends. I started with P&O in San Francisco in 1973... in the marketing department as a secretary, straight out of University.

Within a few months of joining P&O, I was promoted to Secretary of the POSH Seafarers Club... for, I had an idea that I presented to the then President of P&O NA, that it had occurred to me that we should send out brochures to all of the guests who had previously travelled with us... for, in answering phone calls and requests for future literature, I thought we should tap into this potential market. Bingo... President said to write up my ideas, and thus the seed of what was then one of the first past passenger club in the world (I think APL was the first, P&O the second), and the beginning of what is now called relationship marketing, and I as the Den Mother... P&O sent me to sea quite a bit, which was clearly the most joyful part of my job with P&O...

When P&O purchased Princess Cruises around 1974, I was one of five P&Oers that Princess Cruises retained (the rest of the P&O San Francisco staff being made redundant) and I was transferred from SF to Los Angeles... I drove my 1968 VW Bug with all of my possessions in the back, and thus started my Princess Cruises Los Angeles chapter... the two company clubs were joined, and then called the Cruisemaster Club. In addition to being the Secretary of this ever growing club, I was also appointed as the NA Building Coordinator of Princess’ newest ship, ROYAL PRINCESS, and did a wonderfully fun several month tour of the US and Canada with Captain John Young, extolling the joys of the new ship and destinations to the Cruisemaster members, to the travel agent community, and to the press. I was also privileged to be the director of the Inaugural Activities for RP.

In 1984 I was reluctantly wooed away from P&O/Princess Cruises to join Royal Viking Line back up in San Francisco... I say reluctantly, as I really did not want to leave all of my P&O dear friends, but the offer was simply too generous for this career girl to decline... so back to SF I went, where I was the Director of RVL’s past passenger SKALD Program, and also the building coordinator, and inaugural Activities Director for RVL’s ROYAL VIKING SUN. Kloster Cruises moved RVL to Florida, I declined their generous offer to move to FLA, and Kloster then transferred me to their other cruise company, ROYAL CRUISE LINE, where I remained for the next 5 years heading up their past passenger programs.

When Kloster dissolved RCL, Peter Pallas (electrical officer, Spirit of London), by then married to Jerry Sue, and ashore with Inchcape Shipping Services, enticed me to become a Port Agent for ISS in SF...

I am now an independent Maritime Consultant here in San Francisco, and am frequently tapped to provide consulting services to ISS and other husbanding companies, on behalf of visiting Cruise Vessels, naval vessels etc including a wonderful project a couple of years ago for Tony Dyson, then MD of Swan Hellenic... on another occasion, I was in Sydney and Brisbane on an assignment, and spent some wonderful time with Terry Russell, Ted van Bronswijk and others...

My current passion is India, where I head each fall to the Thar Desert in Rajasthan. I usually try to stop over in the UK before and after my India Junkets to see friends... Lisa Connell Betteridge (Gordon), Tony Dyson (Terry), Lorraine Evers, Pru Barlow, Paul Brougham, Martin & Denise Reed, among them.

As time goes on, I am ever more grateful for those joyful days (and nights!) at sea, and to the deep life-long friendships that were formed during those years, and only seem to get stronger as time goes on. To those who still send Xmas cards, please keep sending... and don’t give up on Whoopsie!

There's more of Catharine starting in Island Princess groups and more in Catharine's Memories here.

Catharine's email address is catharinehooper@sbcglobal.net

Celia Cowan

Celia is a beautiful person. Her smile illuminated the room. Her shyness compelling. I’ve got no idea why she needed to borrow one of my boilersuits in Noumea that day but she sure looks cute in it. I'm told by Celia that she was doing her Lifeboat Ticket ... of course!

I hope this ship wasn’t moving at the time. Sorry that was unfair. Celia did in fact successfully complete her Steering Ticket during her time at Sea. Something I did myself to relief the boredom of sailing an empty Nevasa from Malta to Taiwan on her scrap run.

I love this shot of the WAPs of 1975, they all look gorgeous.

L-R:

Back:

Jose Mackenzie, Dianne Ashworth, Rosemary Walker (Deceased), Sandra Whaites.

Front:

Pauline Miller, Celia Cowan.

Here’s another shot of 4 of the above 6 girls all wearing a much more appealing uniform. Brian Griffin tells me that the stunning blonde on the right is Joy Caseru, formerly a Steiners Manageress, and now 'Social Hostess' on board the Tahitian Princess. She’s a good friend of Griff’s and he sailed with her on the Pacific Princess in 2000 and she’s been at sea now for more than 30 years. If you would like to see what Joy looks like now click here.

Here’s an amazing before and after of Celia with, her still best friend, Josie.

Isn’t it great to see everlasting friendships like that … priceless.

Here’s a very recent shot of Celia in South Africa with the amazing Dave Oakes. Neither of them have changed a bit.

There’s more photos of Celia starting here.

Celia’s email address is celiachester@hotmail.com

Charles Mullin

No Photo Yet!

Charles sailed with P&O 1962-64 on Malwa, Strathmore, Iberia and Arcadia. Wonderful times as 3rd Eng.

Charles' email address is chas1508@ntlwprld.com (bounces as invalid)

Charles Oxley

Charles is a very different guy to most. Quite serious a lot of the time but knew how to enjoy himself in his way and always joined in the fun. I really enjoyed his company. A breath of fresh air from the larrikin pissheads like the rest of us. That’s Charlie on the far left standing up. From left to right kneeling down is ??, Glyn Dodson, Dave George and Mick Everson. John Milner (aka Ginger John) is above Mick and I now know, thanks to Groucho, who the other ginger guy is on the far right. His name is Peter Gillespie (aka Goldfish).

Here’s Charles getting on with the job. Changing Rosemary Walker’s fluoro tube. Not a very convenient time to call Charlie or maybe it was well planned.

Charlie, or Charles as he prefers to be called, now lives here in Perth with four others of us. This is what he looks like now and it was taken at our first official reunion on 5th April 2003. That’s his lovely wife Liz next to him. He’s hardly changed a bit.

There’s more photos of Charles starting here.

Charles has sent in 2 CD's of converted slides which eventually will finish up in Charles' Memories but there's just a few tasters there until I find the time to process them all.

Charlie’s email address is chasoxley@westnet.com.au

Charlie Gentle (aka Charles)

Courtesy of Mike Maskell

Charlie was a Junior VO, captured here on top of cairn North Cape, Norway while serving on the Chusan in 1968. I wish I could get hold of a carton or two of the good old Allsopps today.

Chris Adams (aka Crash)

This was Chris back in the good old days...

...and here he is now when Jewkesy caught up with him recently. Chris is now the General Manager of Harris Pye Southampton office.

There's more of Chris starting here.

Chris Bayne

Chris was an Engineer on Oriana in the 60's and married Nursing Sister, Penny Thomas, who sailed on Cathay in 1968 and Orsova in 1969.

There's more of Chris starting here.

Chris' father, Denis (Jimmy) Bayne, was ex Commodore Chef of the fleet but sadly, died on September 3 2006.

Chris and Penny's email address is chrispen.bayne@gmail.com

Chris Benham (aka Blackman)

That's Chris at the controls of Oronsay's Port Engine.

Keith Radford tells me Chris Benham's nicknames come from the fact that he was born and raised in Malawi in Africa and spoke Swahili before he spoke English, hence "Barbary" or "Blackman" Benham.

Here's Chris with John Thow on the plates of Oronsay.

Here's Chris with Phil Adkins taking some fresh air on the "Upper Scupper" in Sydney.

The guy sitting down is Barry Chilton

Above shows Chris in front of one of Oronsay's 4 Foster Wheeler Controlled Superheat Boilers ... Extremely Hallowed Ground, seen by so few.

Courtesy of Keith Radford

L-R

Chris "Blackman" Benham, and 3 passengers in Keith Radford's cabin on Oronsay. The passengers are Carole Vary, Lynette Rhodes (now my wife) and Carole's twin sister Robyn Vary.

There's more photos of Chris amongst the photos he's sent in via Keith Radford in the Oronsay Groups section. I haven't got an email address for Chris but I'm sure Keith will be happy to pass on any messages if you want to get in touch with him.

Chris Freeman (aka Mutley)

I wish I had a better photo of Chris but I’ve searched my archives and this is the only one I can find and that’s him on the far right with half his face missing sitting just behind John Hammond. Chris has done very well for himself and is currently Fleet Support Engineer for Carnival in Southampton.

I found a better shot of Mutley, that’s him front row far right. I also forgot to say what a really nice guy he was and still is I presume.

All the names for this group are here

There's more photos of Chris starting here.

Chris’s email address is chris.freeman@Carnivalshipbuilding.com

Chris Hall

Courtesy of Eldred Clark & David Garry

Chris was a very quietly spoken guy but very switched on and a really nice person. I was never on watch with him, he was a 3rd during my time, so I didn’t get to know him really well but if anyone has any stories about him then please let me know. That’s Chris 2nd from the right.

SS Oriana 1975 Main Consol

L-R:

Dave the Greaser, Dave George, Chris Hall (3rd), Les Diffy.

Chris Hart (Deceased)

Chris was with P&O for about 12 years before leaving and moving to Australia in the 70's. He left as a Senior 2nd Officer/sometimes 1st Officer when they ran out of them. His ships were Oriana, Himalaya, Oronsay, Arcadia and finally the Sea Princess.

Chris writes;

As far as my history goes... my last ship was the Sea Princess which I left in Sydney in 1978 I think. I got a job working for the NSW government for 15 months. It sent me totally potty and I returned to sea under the Aussie flag - a company called Howard Smith - in i996, Howard Smiths had enough of the unions and pulled out of shipping so rather than face redundancy I joined the pilots who run up and down the reef (Australian Reef Pilots).

My wife, whom I met on the Himalaya in 1977 and we have three children all grown up, refuses to move to Queensland as she finds it too hot plus the fact all her family live here in Sydney so I fly to work every three or four weeks as shipping dictates. How much longer I work (60 is just round the corner) really is
based upon my health. I had a very severe heart attack five years ago so have to watch my diet and fitness. Mind you I have lost 20 odd kilos and try and keep fit.

I recently took a trip round the world and met up with Lynn Scrivens (now Hallett, ex Steiners) and Lisa Connolly (now Betterridge, Hostess) both who reside in the UK. I also met up with a buddy of mine, Keith Chapman who
lives in Houston (he was an ex R/O).

Chris has sent in some brilliant photos of his time at sea including some more recent shots of the trip mentioned above which I've placed in Chris' Memories.

There's more of Chris here.

Chris Hindley

I don't know much about Chris other than he was in the bureau on Oriana and Oronsay in the late 60's. More information please Chris.

Chris thinks this was taken in Suva and would love for someone to identify the chap in the boilersuit.

There's more photos of Chris in the Oronsay, Oriana and Orsova groups.

Chris' email address is cjhh@bas.ac.uk

Chris Jordan

Chris writes;

That innocence was about to be lost forever!!

Joined P&O 1965
Cadet Purser, Orsova 1966
JAP, Himalaya, 1966/1967
AP, Oronsay, 1967/1968

I had a hard time making the transition from laid-back line-voyaging to the more exacting pace of European cruising and decided to leave P&O in '68. After an 8-year spell at the European Space Agency in Holland, I moved to the USA in '76.

Retired from the World Bank, Washington DC in 1998 at age 51 and never looked back. Living on the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, USA.
Married, 3 kids, 6 grandkids and a lot of dogs.

There's more of Chris in Oronsay Groups.

Chris' email address is chris8527@hotmail.com

Chris Lawton (aka Basil or Fawlty)

Chris was with P&O from 1975 to 89, he served on the Sun & Pacific Princess, the Bogey (Canberra) and Oriana. Great Times & Great People. He was Sunderland born & bred and now lives in Thames Valley, UK.

There's more of Chris here.

Chris' email address is jclawton2003@yahoo.co.uk

Chris Mussett

No Photo Yet!

Chris was an engineer on Sky Princess.

Chris' email address is c.mussett@virgin.net

Chris Winkley

Courtesy of Roger Lownsborough

Chris Winkley 3rd RO on Canberra's radar platform.

Cindy Kent

Cindy was an entertainer on Oriana back in the 70's with a group called "The Settlers". Click here to hear Cindy singing with the band. Cindy is now the Reverend Cindy Kent and can be heard on 'Premier Tonight with Cindy Kent' weeknights 11pm on Premier Christian Radio, Late and live - the biggest Christian conversation across the UK nation on DAB/SKY/Freeview and the internet.

The photo where the above shot was cut from is here.

This is Cindy more recently explaining how she got from the photo above to where she is now, brilliant stuff.

Cindy's email address is cindy.kent@premier.org.uk

Cliff Mathews

Cliff was an Engineer on Island Princess and Uganda.

There's more of Cliff in Cliff's Memories.

Cliff's email address is enquiries@matthews-training.co.uk

Cliff Merwood

Unfortunately I don't have any sea-days shots of Cliff yet but we're working on it. I don't know much about his sea career either. I do know that he lives fairly close to me in Mandurah which is the next biggest town just south of Perth and I know he married the lovely Jan whom he met at sea. We're going to meet up sometime in the next couple of weeks so I can get some of Cliff's old photos to scan.

That's Jan on the left with Cliff in the middle and their daughter Sarah on the right. Sarah's followed her Dad's footsteps and works at sea as a dancer. You can see her in her work togs here.

Cliff and wife Jan (left) have just returned from a trip to visit their daughter Sarah who works on the Carnival Triumph as a dancer. They joined her for two weeks cruising around the Caribbean. That's Sarah in the black Bikini and the stunner on the right is her friend and co-dancer Renee (who also lives in Perth!) on the beach in Half Moon Cay.

Here's a very recent shot taken in November 07 at the Royal India Restaurant during a reunion to honour Mike Jack's visit to Perth.

There's more of Cliff in his new section Cliff's Memories.

Cliff's email address is cmerwood@bigpond.net.au

Clive Stead

Clive was baby doc on Oriana, Uganda, and Oronsay from 1973 to 1974. He's now retired and presently in Sarajevo, Bosnia skiing.

Clive writes;

For years I kept up with my engineer mate Alan Bell, but with me on the wander in Australia, Middle East etc etc, and Alan moving a few times from the general Newcastle hinterland, I lost him.

If anyone knows how to contact Alan Bell please let us know.

Clive's email address is fordplatypus@hotmail.com

Colin Doughty

I think Colin is one of these three (on the right I think). The full photo from the Sun Princess groups can be seen here.

Colin was a Public Room Barman, he sailed on Canberra for just a short while while waiting to return to the west coast Princess ships. After the Canberra he went to the Sun Princess.

Colin has sent in a great photo of Canberra returning from the Falklands and two excellent photos of the Sun Princess.

Colin's email address is colin.doughty2@ntlworld.com

Colin Hindmarsh

Courtesy of Alan MacKenzie

Colin was an entertainer on Oriana and used to have great fun when any Officer dressed in mess-kit walked through wherever he happened to be performing, trying to embarrass them, by shouting out on the microphone in his broad Aussie accent, "Hey folks! Here's another penguin!"

Courtesy of Alan MacKenzie

In the end, we got our own back on him, by dressing up one of the APs in a penguin suit on the last night of Colin's contract and parading him through the Bonito Club! It brought the house down. The Penguin Award basically, was in acknowledgment of Colin's good-natured piss-taking of all Officers, which no-one really minded and in the end, actually contributed to the passengers' enjoyment as well, so everyone was happy!

You can see a photo of Colin being presented with the Penguin Award here kindly sent in by Graham Bond.

Unfortunately I spookily stumbled across the news that Colin passed away in 1994 on the Internet while searching for something else. I've added a Memorium to Colin here

Colin Macphail (aka Macphailure)

Colin was an Engineer on the Sea Princess and Canberra that I know of. There's lots more photos of Colin in Steve's Memories.

The above picture was taken recently at the Canberra Reunion in Southampton and there's other photos of Colin there too.

Colin's email address is Colin.Macphail@teekay.com

Colin Wilson

Colin's “first trip” was the famous Oriana “fire” voyage in August 1970 so it was fascinating to read the engineers' reports of just what was going on down in the boiler room.

There's the photo of Colin in Arcadia Groups, where the above photo was cut from here.