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Here’s Jady with his good mates Bert McAughtrie, Willie Henry and Brian Griffin (aka Griff) who sent me this shot of the 4 of them taken at an evening BBQ in Scotland.

L-R:

Brian Griffin, Bert McAughtrie, Willie Henry, James Stevens

There’s more photos of Jady here, here, here, here,

Jady’s email address is James_Stevens@jabil.com

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Jayne Wilson (now Simpson)

Here's Jayne on the bridge of Uganda having just arrived back to Southampton from the Falklands after 113 days at sea. The gentleman in the suit in the background is John Nott, the Minister for Defence at the time of the conflict, he is stood next to Commander Goff, the senior Naval officer aboard for the journey.

This a fairly recent shot of Jayne taken aboard Artemis (formerly Royal Princess) in April 2007 when they visited for the day as guests of Zak Coombes, Executive Purser who's standing behind them. The photo was taken by husband Tony Simpson (ex 1st R/O).

The family getting a personal Bridge tour.

Daughter Eleanor ready to take command.

Jayne must have sailed on Oriana in the 70's because I remember her face well. Tony and Jayne can be seen together at the 25 year Falklands commemoration service, organised by SAMA82 (South Atlantic Medal Association 82) here.

Jayne can be contacted through Tony at ress tony@simpson-family.co.uk.

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Jane Leetch

No Picture Yet!

Jane writes;

I worked with the slot machines on The Island & Pacific Princess. I think it was around 1982-1985. So much fun! Best time ever. I miss it.

Jane's email address is janemarietaylor@sbcglobal.net

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Jane Morgans (now Jore)

Jane was a WAP from 1976-1979 - She sailed on Canberra and Oriana and was delighted to see the photo of the Purser's bureau from 1976 when she first joined P&O in the Canberra Groups section. The above photo was cut from that photos which can be seen here of which Jane's added many more names to.

Jane adds;

'We all agreed in those days that it was one of the best bureau's (although what would we know, we'd all only just started!!!).'

Jane is now living in Noumea, New Caledonia (married a Frenchman!).

Jane adds;

'Noumea is pretty far away from the 'real' world!! If anyone remembers me, I'd be delighted to hear from them.

There's a stunning shot of Jane here,

Jane's email address is janejore@mls.nc

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Jane Telfer (aka JT or Wol)

Jane (left) was an Entertainments Officer and then Deputy Cruise Director on Canberra and Oriana between 1980 and 1990. She now lives in South Florida.

There's more photos of Jane taken at the recent Canberra Reunion in Southampton.

Jane's email address is janetelfer@mac.com

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Jeremy Douglas

No photo yet!

Jeremy writes;

'I was a cadet on the Oriana for a few months in 1975 having transferred from P&O General Cargo Division. I'm now working with Eldred Clark, also ex Oriana, in London. Great site – wish I had taken some photos.'

Jeremy's email address is jeremy.douglas1@ntlworld.com

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Jess Muir

Jess writes;

I came across this site by accident today and spent a very unproductive hour being pleasantly reminded of old friends and shipmates from Canberra and Sky Princess. I am a former 3EO on Sky Princess and Bunker Officer on Canberra sailing between 1984 and 1990.

Incidentally I got my nickname “Jess” on the Canberra on my first day on board as a Junior Engineer. I had a portable keyboard in my cabin that I always carried with me and I was playing away merrily when the cabin curtain swept back and Dougie Beveridge (4EO) burst in saying “well fuck me, it’s Jess Yates” (organist on Stars on Sunday at the time). The name stuck and when I met my wife on the Sky Princess (passenger) I was introduced to her as Jess. My actual name is John but I haven’t been called that for 18 years so I guess the nickname is permanent! Thanks Dougie – I guess it could have been a LOT worse.

The above photo was taken by Jess' now wife Sue on a "Ringbolt" cruise, a term I haven't heard before but it appears it means when you have a permanent visitor in your cabin for a cruise.

Jess and Sue.

Jess writes;

I was sailing as 3rd Engineer on Sky when Sue came on board in January 1990 with 2 friends and to to cut a long story short, at the end of the cruise she agreed to marry me. She came back to visit the ship in Philadelphia later that year and "ringbolted" up to New York. It was about the worst kept secret on the ship with even Skid (Ian) Mark the chief asking me with a wink if I'd heard from Sue (knowing full well she was in my cabin!). Later that year I had a falling out with Paul Carney 2EO and ended up quitting the ship in Montreal. Sue and I were married in Scotland at the end of the year and I moved back over here to the States. Ending up as Chief Engineer of Yale University's power plant. (15MW gas turbine plant, 7 boilers 350,000 pph steam and 23500Tons of steam driven chillers). Sue and I are still married, we have 2 kids, Heather (16) and Hunter (14) and live in a beautiful house on the beach in a village called Niantic here in Connecticut.

There's more from Jess posted in the Sky Princess Groups section.

Jess' email address is robert.muir@yale.edu

Other contact details;

R J "Jess" Muir
Yale University
Sterling Power Plant
PO Box 208297
New Haven CT 06520-8297

Tel 203 785 7630
Fax 203 785 5578
Cell 203 410 1880

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Jim Angles (aka Jangles)

Courtesy of Paul Ridley

I don't know much about Jangles other than he was on Oriana. The fact that he's got the on-call means he was probably an Electrician but I'm not sure.

Courtesy of Paul Ridley

I love to see the old Allsopps and the effects of them :)

There's more photos of Jim in Paul Ridley's Memories section here.

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