
Sea
Dogs Index K-L
All
the names are listed alphabetically by first name.
Karen
? (WAP)
Karl
Rochelle
Kathie
Jones
Katie
Chester
Katy
Easterling
Kay
Davies
Keith Chapman
Keith
Harris
Keith
Hunt
Keith
Newman
Keith
Parsons
Keith
Radford (aka Splitpin or The Rat)
Keith
Wildman
Keith
Wood
Ken
? (aka Steady Ken)
Ken
Ellis
Ken
Gurnett
Ken
Lambourne
Ken
Maynard
Ken
McClennan
Ken
Miller - Ken's Memories
Ken
Otter (Deceased)
Ken
Willey (Deceased)
Ken
Worsfold
Kenny
Gillespie
Kenny
Matheson
Kenny
Watson
Kerry
Nickleson
Kevin
Dolan (aka Tanky)
Kevin
Mcloughlin
Kevin
Morgan (aka Morg)
Kevin
Mountney
Kevin
O’Connor (aka Taffy)
Kevin
Timms - Kevin's Memories
Kieran
Goulding
Kirstine
Mayall
Kit
Williams
Knotty
(AEO)
Knuckle
(Cadet)
Kylie
Phillips
Lauraine
Mulberry
Laurie
Bradley
Laurie
Cramm
Leigh
Crumbie
Len
Martin
Les
Booth
Les
Clements (Deceased)
Les
Diffey (Deceased) - Les' Memories
Les
Harris
Leyla
Incekaya
Linda
? (Canadian WAP)
Linda
? (Steiners) (now Richardson)
Linda
Ascott
Linda
Tattershall (aka Lovelace)
Lisa
Elder
Lisa
Connolly (now Betteridge)
Lisa
Ward Wilmott
Lita
Rosa
Liz
Kenyon
Liz
McNamara
Liz
Trainor
Lloyd
Davies
Logie
Buchan
Lou
Johnson
Lou
Manzi
Louis
? (Plumber)
Louise
Hicks (now Bridle)
Louise
Jones
Lyn
Thompson - Lyn's Memories
Lyn
Webster
Lyndon
Munroe (Deceased)
Lynn
Hurlstone
Lynn Scrivers
( now Hallett)
Lynsey
Morf
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Katie
Chester

Katie
Chester (on the left) is the daughter of the lovely Celia
Chester (nee Cowan ex WAP - on the right) and Peter
Chester (ex Engineer). Katie followed her parent's footsteps and
ventured away to Sea. She's sailed on the Pacific Princess, Grand Princess
and Dawn Princess that I know about but maybe others as well. The picture
above was taken on the Dawn Princess and the handsome gentleman in between
both stunningly beautiful ladies is my old mate David
Thomas (aka Dai) whom I had the pleasure of sailing with on Nevasa
some 33 years ago. Katie is the modern day equivalent of a WAP but I'm not
sure of the exact title.

Mother,
Daughter and the Dawn Princess. Great Picture!
There's
some more recent photos of Katie and Celia in the latest addition to the
Reunion section here.
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Keith
Radford (aka Splitpin)
Keith’s
been a tremendous help to me with encouragement and information and is
responsible for sending all the material for the new Oronsay
section.

Above
is Keith with Mrs Betty M Cunningham who unofficially adopted him as her
English son. Keith believes he looks as if he'd just escaped from Alcatraz
in this shot which can be seen in the background.

Keith
again but with Betty Cunningham's daughter Tana. Betty & Tana came to
Australia for a sabbatical for 6 months and Tana did some design work for
the Adelaide Festival, she returned to San Francisco, married Paul Curtis
and now if you look on the IMDB (Internet Movie Data Base) for Tana
Cunningham-Curtis you'll find her listed as Set Design and Dresser on the
movie "The Attic" made in 1980.

This
is a good shot of a typical Island Night.
L-R:
Jon
Harvey, A Passenger, John Thow, Keith’s wife,
Keith.
The
photo was taken in 1973 and he’s told me they were married in 1975 but
hasn’t told me the lovely lady’s name but going by their email address
I deduce it’s Lyn.
The
following history is written by Keith.
‘In
my listing you rightly assume that my wife's name is Lynne, we met about 3
days out from Fremantle on a "Homeward Bound" voyage. We later
sailed from Southampton to Sydney via the Cape. On arrival in Sydney we
did a two week Christmas cruise around the South Pacific, then turned for
home and sailed back to Southampton. Although we were a Passenger ship, as
most dogs would know, originally Oronsay was a Cargo/Passenger vessel and
we carried a cargo of wool from Adelaide to Lisbon (enough to fill one
hold). We were told the cartage of the wool paid for the whole trip so
P&O, in their wisdom, launched a "Seaconomy fare" to the UK
hence we had over 300 single girls on the homeward bound trip.
Lynne
still has her Passenger ticket and the fare was something like $333.00. On
arrival in Southampton I was asked by dear Mr Hewitt to take leave as I’d
been at sea continuously since joining the company. I did but only on the
condition that I was assigned back to Oronsay on her return from her
Hawaiian cruising. Hewitt was as good as his word and I rejoined Oronsay.
Lynne also booked her trip back home as she could see no sense in staying
in the UK whist I was in Aus swanning around the South Pacific having a
good time. Once we arrived back in Sydney in September the ship’s
sailing schedule consisted of 12 months Aussie cruising and Lynne again
joined me on the Christmas Cruise and eventually had more sea time than
most of the crew. She was constantly being asked where various rooms were
on the ship as she’d spent so much time on board.

Lynne
and I regard this as our Engagement Photo taken on the
"Deep-sea" voyage back to Australia obviously on "Island
Night".....
Lynne
made a lot of friends with other Officers on board, not just the
Engineers. Most of whom we’re still in contact with but would love to
know what happened to other shipmates from those halcyon days sailing the
oceans of the World. People like Wendy and Beverley (Bendy & Swivelly)
the Steiner girls, Jeff Galan (Sir John/Surgeon), Margaret
Collins-Williams (Maggie with 2 dads) WAP. Chester Hudson (Asst Purser),
Ralph Godfrey (Rafe the Nafe) Deck Officer, Di Tolhurst (Nurse), Paul ??
(Baby Doc).’
If
anyone knows anything about any of those people please drop Keith &
Lynne an email.
Gareth
Jones recalls this story about Keith;
‘I
was about eight weeks into my first trip to sea on Oronsay, and I was just
learning the difference between a boiler and a turbine. On this particular
day the 12-4 watch noted that there was sea water pouring into the bilge
underneath the port condenser. They did not trust me on watches at this
point, so I was part off the day work team that went to have a look and
identify the problem. What had happened was that the 4" pipe that
took sea water from the bottom of the condenser to the lube oil cooler had
cracked right on the flange where it connected to the bottom of the
condenser. Even I knew that this was not good.
John
Englefield (the bopper) was called and we knew we could not try and braze
the leak because there was too much water coming from the crack, so as a
temporary measure we decided to chock the pipe from underneath by
hammering in wooden wedges between the tank top and the pipe. There was
about four feet clearance between the bilge and the bottom of the
condenser, Bopper was in the bilge, bent double holding the wooden chock
in place and Keith Radford was swinging a sledge hammer that weighed about
twice as much as he did. Both of them were getting absolutely soaking wet
with the water coming from the pipe. After about two hits on the wedges,
Keith swung the hammer for the third hit and missed. He hit Boppers watch,
which unfortunately was still on his left wrist, the watch did little to
soften the blow and Bopper flew out of the bilge screaming expletives at
Keith about how he was going to kill him and then throw his puny body
overboard.
It
turned out that Keith had broken Bopper's wrist with the sledge hammer.
Those people that knew Bopper were aware how volatile he could sometimes
be, but at this point I’m sure Keith was going to be keel hauled at the
very least. We finished hammering the chocks in, I think somebody rescued
the sledge hammer from Keith who at this time was back on the plates,
soaking wet and probably wondering how the company was going to explain
his mysterious disappearance to his parents, when Bopper threw him
overboard.
The
next time I saw Bopper was later that evening with his arm in a sling, I
really did think that Keith's life was over, but Bopper apologised to him
and said that if Keith ever broke his wrist again he would follow up on
his earlier threats. After about three days Keith was a folk hero on
board, as the man that broke Bopper's wrist. Because I was a witness to
the whole thing I also attained folk hero status, by relaying the whole
incident to everybody on board that wanted to listen, of course the story
was embellished every time it was repeated, but as I write this I cannot
wipe the smile off my face. KEITH RADFORD … THE MAN THAT BROKE THE
BOPPERS WRIST.

These
shots were taken on the 23rd August 2006 at a family dinner at the
Bavarian Bier Cafe on Manly Wharf to celebrate the occasion of Keith &
Lynne’s eldest son’s 29th birthday. The shot above shows, from the
left, Lynne, Nathan (29), Jacqueline (18), Andrew (26), Dave (22) and
Keith.

Here’s
the Birthday Boy Nathan & Jacqueline with their drinks. Nathan with a
1 litre Stein of Lowenbrau original and Jacqueline with 300mls of
Lowenbrau Dunkel (and yes she did drink it all).

Andrew
and Dave.
This
was at the end of the night when they bring round glasses of iced water
with a slice of lemon in them.


Keith
sent in the above 2 shots of Dakar Dockside traders. They'll bring back
memories for most of us but not for buying stuff ... selling it!

Keith
explains;
Who would have thought 30
years ago when sailing from Pyrmont 13 under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, that one day I would stand at the top of the
old coat hanger. The weather was absolutely abominable but what an experience. Will do it again in fine weather later on. In the
photo is myself, son Nathan and daughter Jacqueline crossing from the eastern arch across to the
western arch about 3/4 of the way across before descending. I can thoroughly recommend this as a "must do" if visiting Sydney not just for seadogs but for anyone.
If
you're going to do it again Keith I'm coming over to do it with you ...
brilliant!
Keith’s
email address is keilyn03@tpg.com.au
There’s
more photos of Keith in the Oronsay Groups
section.
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Ken
Ellis

A
bit early for a beer at the Plough Tavern on Oriana Ken
Ken
was a lecky with P&O from 1980 till 1994. He started on Canberra (drydock
- Southampton - November .... welcome to the world of cruising!), then
moved to the big 'O' in (82-84), Royal Princess (84), Sea Princess
(85-88), and finished back on the Royal. He then transferred to P&O
Ferries on the Irish Sea until 2001 when an argument with a lorry on the
vehicle deck resulted in his medical discharge in 2003. He’s now self
employed and does some technical writing for the same company as some the
other ex-P&O guys - Ken Miller, Graeme Hayes and Neil Lindfield. It
was Ken Miller who put me onto this site and he’s since spent many an
enjoyable working hour looking through the site and seeing what old pals
are up to. Welcome aboard Ken.

The
photo above is a gathering of 4 of the more handsome members of the Oriana
Eng dept of the day! Says Ken.
L-R:
Paul
Mommatt (aka Two Dogs - A/E/O), Ken Ellis (A/EL/O), Duncan Hall (aka Trog
- 4/E/O) and Joe Scaramuzza (aka Scary Joe - 4/E/O).

Royal Princess Karaoke:
The ships answer to the Four Tops.
L-R
Ian MacIntosh (4/ETO),
Rob MacBrayne (4/ETO), Don Millar (1/ETO) and Ken Ellis (2/ETO)
Ken’s
email address is ellis0@tiscali.co.uk
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Ken Miller
(aka Windy)

I
know this is a bad photo but I had to cut it from the large Canberra
Group shot, I needed a photo to add Ken here so I had a place to put
his fantastic movie. All I know about Ken is he was 4th Engineer on
Canberra.
Check
out Ken's brilliant movie (with sound) of Canberra's Engine Room here.
Ken's
email address is jkmiller@btinternet.com
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Ken
Worsfold

Ken
was a quiet kind of guy. An excellent Engineer and well respected. I guess
the best way I could describe Ken is that he didn’t suffer fools gladly.
He loved the odd cabin piss up but did a fantastic job of avoiding the
cameras. He couldn’t avoid this one though. That’s Ken 4th from the
right in the seated group sitting next to Glyn
Dodson and just behind John Thow.

Here’s
a much better shot of Ken thanks to Mark
Sawyer. That’s Ken on the left with Mark.
Thanks
to Dave Jewkes we know that Ken is
alive and well and lives in the Sydney Area.
I’m
very pleased to say that Ken has emailed me and he works for Caltex at the
Kurnell refinery, and has done so for the last 19 years. Other P&O
names working there are Jim Taylor, Phil Cable (another split pin), Jon
Guy and Gary Prescott. He also keeps in touch with Andy Jackson and Terry
Bartholomew (now retired) and has always stayed more or less up to date
with what P&O are up to.

Here’s
what he looks like now
I’m
pleased he’s another, like me, who doesn’t look like he did 30 years
ago unlike Mark, Speedy & Charlie who always make me feel so old when
we get together, not that I’m saying you look old Ken, we’ve just done
it tougher than the others, and proud of it :)
Ken’s
email address is worsfolk@hotmail.com
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Kevin Mountney

Kevin
worked in the galley on the Sun Princess in 1980. The above picture was
cut from a great photo of the entire Galley Staff of 1980 that Kevin sent
in and it can be seen in the Sun Princess Groups section here.
Kevin's
email address is kjmountney@yahoo.co.uk
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Kevin
O’Connor (aka Taffy)

Kevin
sailed on the Orsova and Himalaya as A/E and 4/E from 72 to 74. He
finishing up on the Himalaya scrap run in 74.
Kevin
has sent in some great photos but with little detail so if anyone can help
put names to faces please do.

Kevin
with an unnamed passenger.

I'm
told by Andy Westwood that the girl in this photo is Valerie whom Kevin
went on to marry.

Here's
Kevin with another unnamed passenger and he tells me the officer on the
right is Jimmy Hill (Leckie).

Here's
a group shot taken on Himalaya in 1973.
L-R:
Kevin
O'Connor, Passenger, Stan Steers A/El, ??, Colin Thomas A/El, Paul
Talarico A/Eng.

Here's
another group shot taken on Orsova in 72/73. I recognise Kevin with
another passenger on his knee, getting a bit of a reputation here Kev!
L-R:
??
(AP), ?? (Baby Doc), Kevin O'Connor, ?? (Nursing Sister), ?? (WAP), Mike ?
(The Bean), Margaret ? (Chili Ho), Marty Elliot, ??, John “Snoopy”
Gray (he came from the Orkneys), ?? (Junior Freezer).

I've
got no idea who the girl is but she's well worth including and it's a nice
shot of the ships :)
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All
I can tell you about this one is that's Rob ? (AEO) on the left, Kevin on
the right and Orsova berthed at Circular Quay, Sydney taken in 1972.

Here's
a better shot of Orsova taken the same day.

This
is Tom Sheridan & John Stephenson taken on Orsova 1972.

And
finally this handsome couple ... unknown!
Hopefully
Kevin or someone in the Seadog community will come up with the names.
Thanks for your contribution Kevin.
There's
a previous shot of Kevin on this site here
Kevin's
email address is koconnor@tempo.com.au
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Kevin
Timms

Kevin
was a great guy, intelligent, funny, friendly … I could go on. He was
always happy and smiling with a great positive attitude. He was a real
pleasure to be around. That’s Kevin with TT
in a headlock and that’s Mick Everson
laying about on the left.

Me
& Kevin

Kevin
dreaming about his girlfriend across the sea in Sydney

Here’s
one of him not smiling. It was obviously a staged shot not his natural
self.
The
funniest story about Kevin, although not funny at the time, was when he
resigned and left the ship in Sydney to be with his girlfriend and he
desperately wanted to take his beloved Budgie with him that he’s bought
in Madeira so he coerced a couple of us to help him with his plan. First
he put the bird in his jacket pocket and kept his hand in his pocket
holding onto it and off he went ashore. Accomplice number one was Mark
Sawyer who 10 minutes later walked off down the gang plank carrying
Kevin’s toolbox stuffed with cat litter and Budgie food. Accomplice
number two, yours truly, followed 10 minutes later trying nonchalantly to
walk off the ship with a bloody empty Budgie cage. Fortunately for
Australia the customs officers weren’t that easily fooled and I was met
by one who said “you’re just the man we’re looking for … follow me”.
I was led into a room with Kevin, Mark and a customs guy holding a budgie
looking for a cage to put it in. Fortunately for me there’s no law
against bringing a Budgie cage into the country so I was let off and told
to go away. Mark was also let off and that was the last time I ever saw
Kevin. I’d love to know what happened to him and the Budgie.

Here’s
Kevin taken very recently with his gorgeous wife Lois and their 1 year old
Luka. Currently they’re living in a renovated workers cottage in
Birkdale (Brisbane) on the beautiful Moreton Bay area. They’ve been
married for 2½ years now and Kevin claims Lois was a beautiful
"Angel That Fell To Earth". I can’t disagree with that Kev,
how romantic is that folks :)
He’s
currently the I.T. Manager for ACL (Automotive Components Limited). Lois
manages her time between being a Mother and a Marketing Manager for an IT
firm in Brisbane. Life, at the moment, for them is wonderful.
Kevin
recalls;
‘I
officially left the Big 'O' in Fremantle and stayed on as a passenger
through to Sydney - then just walked off the ship to start a new
life with Margaret (former passenger) in Penrith (Lower Blue Mountains)
NSW. We got married 1 year (to the day) after we met - in Dorrigo
and Geordie John was our Best Man. I also attended Geordie's wedding
in Sydney (can't remember if I was Best Man or not) - haven't heard from
him for years.
Margaret
and I were married for nearly 20 years before we decided to call it a day.
We have 2 marvellous "kids", Indya (24) currently in London
working as Alan Bond's P.A. - and Bede (21 next month) who is in I.T. with
the Environmental Protection Agency - he still lives with Margaret in
Carindale (about 15 minute drive from where we live). Still good friends
with Margaret and we see Indya and Bede when time and circumstance permit
(21 is a very busy time of life and London is not exactly round the
corner).
Amongst
my career moves I worked with IBM for 12 years – 3½ of them in Dubbo -
finishing up as a Large Systems Manager in Brisbane. I’ve since worked
in a multimedia company that produced Touch-screen kiosks (you may have
seen the ones we did for Perth City Council about 5 years ago). Oh
yeah - just remembered, I did a stint as an electrical fitter with a
company called Gilbarco in Ryde very early in the piece with a certain
Gavin Ash (the Leckie that I replaced when I joined Big 'O').
I
had a few visits to Oriana shortly after leaving her including the famous
Budgie Rustling incident - which resulted in me going to court and getting
a
fine, a criminal record and a deceased budgie - never did get to
thank you Steve for your help in the attempted "breakout".’
And
here’s the great new section called Kevin’s
Memories with the first movie footage posted on this site.
There’s
more photos of Kevin here, here,
Kevin’s
email address is ktimms@bigpond.net.au
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Kirstine
Mayall

Kirstine
was with P&O from 1977 to 1982 on Uganda and PP. The shot above was
cut from the Uganda Silly Hat Party in
the Groups section. Now that’s my kind
of girl J When I cut the photo I just had to include that beautiful
elegant foot in the shot. What a stunning lady.
Kirstine
now runs a business organising Golf Cruises. What a brilliant idea. Check
out her fabulous Business Website at http://www.fairwaves.co.uk
Kirstine’s
email address is kirstine.mayall@ntlworld.com
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Kit
Williams

WOW!
Kit
was a shop girl, spending the years '79 through '81, mostly on board Sun
Princess with a few months on Island Princess as well.
Kit
says;
‘I
was lucky to have begun my relationship with P&O/Princess at a very
young age as my dad was Maritime Counsel on cases for both companies so he
was bringing officers and crew home to meet the family, most memorable
being Gerry McGowan, Malcolm Rushan, Ian Gibb and Brian MacDonald.’

This
photo is a rare one of three surgeons together (with a shop girl thrown in
for good measure). Richard Webster being hugged, John Evans on the
right and Frank Zaniewski in
the cool shades. It was taken on the Sea Princess in Los Angeles in May of
1980. The Island Princess in port at the same time and they were changing
surgeons on one of the ships so the three of them had a drink in the
Surgeon's cabin on the Sun Princess.

Kit
Says;
‘Above
is Paddy Clare (Black), VO (ah, but he is missed) and Richard Webster,
(Pink) Surgeon, in their kit for the Dying Swan, Paddy being the star of
the Sea Princess version. Don't know if you knew Paddy (didn't everyone
know Paddy Clare????), but he died in London in 1994.’
You
never know what life has in store for you, do you? Live for the moment!

Above
is David Hannah on the bridge wing of Royal Princess in Glacier Bay.
Kit’s
email address is bakerlouline@charter.net
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