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Sea Dogs Index S
All the names are listed alphabetically by first name.
Sally Bell (now Byrne)
Sandy ? (Hostess)
Shaun Atkins (aka Plug)
Simon ? (Engineer)
Simon ? (Photographer)
Simon's Memories include Canberra, Royal Princess.
Sonia Grimason (now Johnson)
Steve ? (Bureau)
Steve Allen (aka Slimey)
My Memories include Nevasa, Oriana.
Steve Brogan (aka Stevie B)
Steve Foster (aka Fozzy)
Steve Green (aka Grandad)
Steve Hill (aka Pig Pen)
Steve's Memories include Pacific Princess, Sea Princess, Sun Princess.
See 17 cruise ships pass a Grenada hotel room window in 14 days.
Steve Kumm (aka Photo Steve)
Steve Lee (aka Onion Heed)
Steve Norris (aka Noddy)
Steve Quinnell (aka The Blonde Gripper)
Steve Robinson (aka Robbo)
Stuart ? (2O)
Stuart Ramsey (aka Goober)
Sue ? (Children’s Hostess)(now Kennedy)
Sue Convery (now Spence)
Sue Graham (now Barwell)
Sue Turner (now Sayce)
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Seadogs Index T
All the names are listed alphabetically by first name.
Terry ? (Photographer)
Terry's Memories include Ballarat, Chusan, Corfu, HMS Illustrious, HMS Jamaica, Iberia, Somali.
Tim ? (aka Liquid Tim)
Tish Hay (now Thomas)
Tony ? (Crew Messman)
Tony ? (Purser)
Tony Boxall (Deceased)
Tony Davies (aka Sid Vicious)
Tony Minards (aka Atomic Rooster)
Toto ? (Fitter)
Trevor ? (Freezer Geezer)
Trevor ? (Welsh Wizard)
Trevor Friday (Deceased)
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Seadogs Index V
All the names are listed alphabetically by first name.
Veronica ? (Banker)
Vic ? (Writer)
Vincent ? (Sonny Souto Band)
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Seadogs Index W
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Wendy ? (Steiners)
Wendy ? (WAP)
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Seadogs Index Y
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Seadogs Index Z
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Sally Bell (now Byrne)
Courtesy of Alan MacKenzie
Sally was a WAP on the Sea Princess, Uganda and Oriana between 1983-86. She's already done a great job of adding lots of missing names in photos already on the site and has promised to send a few of her own with memories from a female perspective which she so rightly points out is a little thin on this site.
Bring 'em on Sally :)
The above picture was cut from a Toga night series in Alan MacKenzie's Sea Princess section.
Sally's email address is sally.byrne@wanadoo.fr
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Sandra Whaites
I didn’t know Sandra at all so if anyone knows anything worthy of print please email me. That’s Sandra on the far right back row.
L-R:
Back:
Jose Mackenzie, Dianne Ashworth, Rosemary Walker (Deceased), Sandra Whaites.
Front:
Pauline Miller, Celia Cowan.
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Sarah Merwood
Sarah is the beautiful daughter of Jan & Cliff Merwood. Cliff was an Engineer with P&O back in the good old days of the 70's & 80's. Sarah followed her Dad's footsteps and went to sea as a Dancer.
Sarah is on the left of her friend Renee and this photo was taken on the Fantasy based out of Port Canaveral. She's about to return to sea early February '07 joining the Carnival Triumph in Miami.
Sarah is 2nd from left.
Sarah is centre stage in this one.
Sarah is far left (pale one) in this one.
and is 2nd from right (middle blonde) in this great shot.
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Scott Becker
That's Scott on the left on his very first cruise. He remembers they didn't have a bunk for him, nor name tags, uniforms ... anything. The E/O was a really great man. Unfortunately his name has left his memory. This is about 1985.
Scott recalls;
Back in the 80s, I worked for Cunard aboard QE2 & Cunard Princess. Later (1988) I went to work for Princess Cruises in their Los Angeles office. So I was never crew for P&O/ Princess, but was an employee. Growing up in the 1970's in Los Angeles, I dreamed of working aboard these ships. I feel very fortunate to have been able to have the experiences I did but I feel that I missed so much because the 1960's and 70's must have been fantastic!
Your web site allows me to see all the great ships, places and above all the people. It's always the crew that makes any ship. And clearly there are a lot of special people who have shared their experiences here.
QE2 in St Thomas.
and again in Barbados.
This is a husband and wife entertainer team - musicians.
This is Scott in the Cruise Staff office.
I'm not sure about where this is but it was taken by the food and beverage manager, John Hewittson.
Some friends relaxing at the Sheraton Macuto at La Guira.
QE2 leaving Venezuela with the Rotterdam following.
Scott's next ship... Cunard Princess arriving just off the stern of the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
The next two pics are of Cunard Princess in Alaska. Scott's somewhere on deck in one of those.
Embarkation prior to departure from Vancouver.
A fellow cruise staff member.
Then one she took of me while leaving San Francisco and a pretty windy day. This was a jazz cruise with Sarah Vaughn, George Shearing and quite a few others.
Scott has his own excellent sea related website called rms Queen Elizabeth
Scott's email address is flagshipqm2@yahoo.com
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Sean Keogh
Courtesy of Debbie McAughtrie & Brian Griffin
Sean is the one in the middle with Brian Griffin on the left and Geoff Seddon It was taken in the Island Princess in 1976.
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Shirley Golby
Shirley was a great entertainer on Oriana. As you can see above, she was drop dead gorgeous with a pair of pins to die for and was also a really lovely person to boot :)
Courtesy of Dave Jewkes
This was taken very recently on the 2nd September 2006 when, low and behold, our lovely Shirley turned up on a cruise on Jewksie's Oriana. Dave reports that Shirley's only just got over some form of cancer treatment, but is doing very well even though she still gets very tired at the end of each day. Besides that, she's never been happier and is married to a wonderful man.
Well I reckon a cruise would've been the best possible medicine anyone could have prescribed and the whole of the Seadogs-Reunited community wish you all the very best Shirley. I love the way bit by bit we're all coming together after 30 over years. Simply brilliant stuff.
There’s more photos of Shirley on the famous Lifeboat BBQ of 1975 in Kevin’s Memories and a new section in Reunions with Jewkesy.
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Simon Holmes
Simon, originally from Lancashire but now in Oregon, was JAP, AP, SAP, DP and Purser on Canberra, Oriana, CP, SP, PP and RP from 1982-93. The above photo was cut from a photo in Canberra Groups.
Here's Simon a bit later in his career sorting out a last minute flower delivery.
L-R:
Tesa Vanderloo (Princess Services), Simon & Jan Holmes (nee Hays) in 1988 taken on the Royal Princess.
This is my son Matthew & I somewhere in the Cascade Mountains Pacific NW on a 187 mile horse trek !! The things we do - the places we go - the things we see - Thanks P&O.
There's more photos of Simon starting here.
Simon's sent in some great photos of his career posted in Simon's Memories.
Simon's email address is simon.holmes@comcast.net
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Simon Lockyer
Simon was A/B, Bridge Seaman, Night Leading Seaman, Acting Coxswain on Oriana 1971-1978 & Coxswain on the Sea Princess 1978-1980.
This
was taken at the Dragon Pool when Simon was 'Night Leading Seaman' with the late Joey Higgins on the hose!
I remember both these guys so well from my time on Oriana. They did a
fantastic job keeping the ship looking her best in the middle of the night
while the passengers were counting sheep.
Simon writes;
I've tried to find out how and when Joey died but nobody amongst all my ex Oriana friends knows, bless him anyway he was a nice lad.
Simon recalls;
Although this sort of behaviour was strictly forbidden in uniform, you and I know it was part of every day life aboard the liners of yesteryear!. Here's a photo of 'yours truly' doing what every good "Seadog" should and hoped to do during those fabulous years circa 70's!!. I know it was and possibly is still frowned upon, but just couldn't help myself!!!.
I don't blame you Mate ... good looking filly.
Simon recalls;
Captain Peter W. Love meeting my
future wife Janette in 'The Red Carpet Room' Sea Princess on her first
cruise out of Sydney in 1978. That would have made Peter Love 47 years old, how time flies.
Janette and I have now been married for 27 years!
Simon painting shipside on a main passenger gangway! (work place health & safety would not be amused these days!!).
After a BBQ yours truly with the then Chef De Cuisine 1977 Dragon Pool Oriana.
Simon with 'The Hollywood Bosun' Jim Sullivan.
Simon (Coxswain) with Chris Hart (Second Officer) just prior to a bridge visit in 1979.
Simon remembers;
The Big O at Pago Pago with Rosey who was my beau at this time, (one of the punters).
Simon has sent in 3 great photos of Oriana and a brilliant photo of 2 great captains and two amazing Oriana brochure shots that I've poster all together in the Oriana section and 2 of Oriana's Night Gang.
Simon's email address is bmwsimon@bigpond.net.au
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Stephen Bannister
No photo yet!
Stephen was with P&O from 1969 to 73. He sailed on Orsova, Oronsay, Arcadia, Chusan and Oriana. He couldn't believe that the first picture on the Oronsay site is exactly the same as the one on his bedside. He intended leaving Oronsay but stayed on when it took over the Alaska run when Arcadia couldn't make it.
Stephen's email address is sbannister@hotmail.com
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Stephen Wedd
Stephen was an Engineer on Oriana in 1970 and he’s also got a website about the great days at sea.
L-R:
Les Harris, David Betts, Stephen Wedd, Mark Gardiner.
The photo above is a very familiar scene only the tension is quite evident as they’re not drinking. Stephen tells me they were patiently waiting for the Slops to arrive.
This is what Stephen looks like now.
I need more photos and information about the people I didn’t sail with. Come on guys, start scanning and writing stories.
Stephen’s email address is swedd@iinet.net.au
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Steve Borrill
This is me on local leave in Perth 1975 sailing up the Swan River on a friend’s boat.
Having a smoke out on deck.
Enjoying the breeze through my hair pondering the meaning of life.
Christmas 1975 going to work … smoking again!!
A close up on the same day with “Bendy Dog” my loyal pet while at sea.
Above is me with Charlotte, a Jokers Seven girl (croupier) who was a good friend of Betty’s
This was taken in Caracas, Venezuela.
L-R:
Geoff Heap (Groucho), Me, Alan Conlin (TT), Bob Chambers and (Geordie) John Atkinson.
Me and TT somewhere in the world.
This is Jen whom I met on Nevasa and married nearly 30 years ago (28th Aug 2006). The picture was taken in my cabin on the cruise that we met just off the coast of Naples in December 1974.
I think this was taken the night of the initial wheel in.
Here she is wearing my fabulous Davey Crocket Hat bought in Turkey :)
She hasn’t looked at me like that for a long, long time and I’ve no idea what that expression on my face meant but it doesn’t look good does it?
This is mid 1975 when she came on a cruise on Oriana. Now I’m too fat and she’s too skinny but somehow we’re still together after all this time.
Here’s a shot of a few Officers relaxing off duty in some paradise. L-R Laying down: Dirty Harry, Mike Jack and TT with his legs over my shoulders … as you do. Behind Dirty Harry is a very young Dave Jewkes and the guy standing up was a crew member from the Boiler Room if I remember right.
This is me with Heather. She sailed from Vancouver to Southampton in May 1976. I remember thinking how brave she was as she knew nobody in England and had nowhere planned to stay when she got off the ship. I’ve often wondered how she managed and where she finished up. I’d love to hear from you if you ever read this Heather.
Great days.
There’s more photos of me here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
My email address is steve@seadogs-reunited.com
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Steve Burgoine
Steve was a young popular Deck Officer in my day, that’s him enjoying a cup of tea in the Baby Doc’s cabin with a few friends (tea ????). It’s good to see a can of Allsopps on the table there Steve :)
L-R:
Daphne Goldsmith (WAP), Steve Burgoine (Jnr. 2nd Off), Mike Gold (Snr 2nd Off.) and Chrissie Doogue (Nurse).
As I’ve mentioned before, it’s sad that due to the size of some of the departments on the bigger ships inter departmental fraternisation was rare especially in the junior ranks, unlike the smaller ships, like Nevasa, where everybody mixed with everybody.
Here’s a great shot of what Captain Steve Burgoine looks like now, currently the “Old Man” of the MV Arcadia, and it’s great to see two other old reprobates still at sea on Arcadia with him.
L-R:
Paul Clasby (CTO), Andy Jackson (Guarantee Engineer), Steve Burgoine (Captain).
Fabulous stuff.
Steve tells me he was lucky enough to visit Oriana in Quinguandow and again in Shanghai but she was looking very sorry for herself. The owners at the time gave him a few mementos from the ship which he now treasures which is great because it means a part of her will live on forever.
There's more of Steve starting here and here's a small tribute to Steve when about to leave Arcadia for the last time.
Steve’s email address is unknown after leaving Arcadia.
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Steve Foster (aka Fozzy)
Steve was a Radio Officer on Oriana, Canberra, Uganda, Pacific Princess between 1977-1982.
Steve's also sent in 2 Canberra and 1 Pacific Princess group shots.
There's more of Steve starting here.
Steve's email address is winsfordlodge@btinternet.com
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Steve Hill
Steve recalls;
Great memories and photos. I was Entertainment Officer and Cruise Director on Oriana from 1976 to 1979 before transferring to Sea Princess. I married a beautiful Joker 7 named Lynn Woodford and we emigrated to Oz in 1980. We now have two sons, 19 and 23 and are very happy. Still entertaining in clubs and corporate functions and we had great fun picking out old shipmates ... Gavin Ash, Willie Henry, 'Goldfish' (who I bumped into at one of my gigs), Steve Stroud, Lisa Connell, Phil Jackson, John Thow, and many more. We'd love to hear from them. (Lynn was a croupier on Oriana in 1978/79).
The above photo was cut from a photo in David Saunders' Memories.
Steve's email address is stephen.e.hill@bigpond.com
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Steve Hodge
Sun Princess New Year: About 1988.
L-R:
Den Tanner the singing ice cube! (VO), Ian Brown (2EO), Princess Cruises staff, Graham Lewis (CEO), Paul Braughams (Purser), Jayne Hodge (pissed), Steve Hodge (J2EO).
Jimmy Plowman (aka Bowprop) and Me - Jimmy loved his V12 Deutsch diesel bow prop motor on Sea Princess and talked about it all the time.
All the photos previously in this section have been moved to Steve's new section called Steve's Memories.
There’s also more photos of Steve here
Steve writes;
"A mate sent me this link to a series of programmes from Scottish TV about the Merchant Navy. Skid Mark appears in one episode about P&O's latest - Ventura. He's still on the ball, spots a leak that somebody has already cut the lagging back to expose!!! It wasn't aired nationally so I don't think many people have seen it before. Check it
out here.
The missus and I went cruising for Christmas on Celebrity Constellation. It's our fifth Celebrity cruise but not the best by any means. Overall quality has noticeably dropped and the ship was overrun with kids (should probably have thought about that before we booked). Cruise ship overload in some ports, six large ships in with us twice - ports jammed full of punters! Couple of snaps attached (that Disney ship still looks like a ship don't you think)."
Steve’s email address is steve_hodge@ppeuk.com
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Steve Kumm (aka Photo Steve)
Steve was a photographer on Uganda, Sea Princess, Sun & Island Princess on and off between 1979 & 1987.
Steve's email address is Steeveok@aol.com
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Steve Musson
Steve was a bit of a cool customer. He was pretty quiet sometimes but I don’t mean moody. It was just his way. That’s Steve in the middle with the ginger hair. He was well liked and respected and as you can see he was pretty handsome and did his fair share of wheeling. I can’t for the life of me remember what prompted this photo but that’s me being held and it was taken at the Plough Tavern Bar. I remember being there sun baking when the lads turned up in blues and the ship’s photographer was there doing his job and so there it is.
L-R:
Mark Sawyer, Steve Musson, John Speed & John Russell.
Above is that great shot of the 75/76 Leckies.
L-R
Back:
Mark Sawyer, John Atkinson, Steve Musson, Mick Everson, Paul Robinson, Charles Oxley.
Front:
John Hammond, Tom Douther, Dave Whitehand.
Steve's email address is musson@bigpond.net.au
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Steve Quinnell (aka The Blonde Gripper)
Steve was an engineer serving on Oronsay and Acadia in the mid 70's. His IP Address indicates he's now living near Châteaugiron, France.
There's more of Steve starting here.
Steve's email address is stevequinnell@orange.fr
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Steve Stroud
Steve’s another of the amazing “Still at Sea” club. That’s him on the far left of the photo and don’t you reckon he looks like Omar Sharif. He joined Oriana in 1977, the year after I left, and is currently the VO on Aurora with Jewksie.
The others that Steve named are Andy Jackson being buried, Jag Lewis behind Andy and of course the famous TT (aka Alan Conlin) the Legend himself.
Steve sailed with many of the characters that we know so well and he tells me, and it’s good to know, that we live on in the legend that is 'On the Oriana', 'In the good Old Days' and 'Aussie Cruising' etc, etc. He goes on to say that us steam queens are getting few and far between and some of the young lads look at us in a rather amusing way when we mention the times we used to have at sea. And they say, 'Nostalgia isn't what it used to be'. Aint that the truth.
Thanks for your email Steve. Remember the movie ‘Field of Dreams’ with Kevin Costner … ‘Build it and they shall come’. That’s what inspired me to build this website and it’s you guys out there that are making the dream come true.
Malcolm Orr has remembered a funny story involving Steve;
I remember Steve joining Oriana. We all thought he looked like John Conteh then, a severely handsome chap was Steve, a good guy too. Steve's cabin was like Barry White's boudoir, it was Huggy-Bear's dream in white sheepskin. He never allowed pour-outs in there. It was nogo-land. He had a fine taste in music though ... splutter ... This one night he'd been setting up a serious wheel, and he told the lads that he would prefer it if they would not cramp his style on decks that night. So they agreed not too. But they got bored, so they just stripped his cabin of all it's Mojo ... the bedding, posters, music, rugs etc ... then they really got carried away. Everything went, it was stripped until all that was left was the bulkheads and the deckhead, and the chassis of his bunk (no, hang on, I think that went also). But, as I was on Duty that night I obviously had nothing to do with it :) There were about 12 of us hiding in my cabin waiting for him to get back. A pure giggle-fest.
You can't leave us hanging! What happened when he got back?
There’s lot more photos of Steve starting here.
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Stewart Aitchison
Stewart worked on Oriana in 1973. The above photo has Gavin Ash on the left. Stewart in the middle and the person on the right is Kenny Watson from Middlesbrough.
Stewart would really like to catch up with Gavin Ash but unfortunately now he's retired I don't have his personal email address so if anyone can help he'll be very grateful.
Stewart's email address is aitchy1.bispham@yahoo.co.uk
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Stuart Bennett
At this point all I can tell you about Stuart is he worked on the Spirit of London and can be seen in that huge group photo here.
Stuart's email address is stuart.bennett@clear.net.nz
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Stuart Drew
Courtesy of Andy Ball
I don't know much about Stuart yet but he emailed me recently to report the sad loss of Miskin Rahman Samy. I'll endeavour to get some info about himself out of him. Meanwhile there's more photos of Stuart during a Tug O War here and in Graham Bond's section here.
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Sue Allen
Courtesy of Gary Wood
All I can tell you about Sue is that she was a WAP on at least the Oriana and the Sea Princess and there's lots of photos of her in Gary Wood's memories. Oh, she also has fantastic legs and a gorgeous face :)
There's more of Sue here.
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Sue Convery (now Spence)
Sue (on the right) was a WAP on Nevasa from April 1972 to December 1973 which was her first ship. She joined just as BI was finally absorbed into P&O, in fact was the first person in P&O uniform to join, to general hilarity from those on board.
Sue writes;
I'm the organiser of the BI Reunion, which I and a small group of us from Nevasa started in 1989. In 2006 we celebrated the 150th anniversary of the founding of BI in Glasgow and this year, the tenth, it's at Runnymede from 3-5 Oct and is special in that it's dedicated unofficially to Nevasa. Barrie Sanderson has been editing a book on her which it was hoped would be ready for the reunion but sadly that's not to be, though it should be published at the end of the month. However, the owner of Nevasa's foc's'le bell (Chris Sample who was Ch/Off has her bridge bell in his hall) is bringing it to the reunion along with other bits of memorabilia. There will be 188 at the reunion, over fifty of whom sailed in Nevasa at one time or another. We plan for the person who was on her first cruise to ring her bell to announce dinner, and for the person who was last off to do the same at the curry lunch on Sunday.
Sue's email address is sue@johnmspence.plus.com
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Sue Huggins
Courtesy of Dave Traynor
I don’t know anything about Sue but I do remember her face. Dave Traynor sent in these photos and I get the impression that he rather fancied her. Come on Dave own up!
Courtesy of Dave Traynor
Nice hat Sue and that dreaded VB can shows up again.
Courtesy of Dave Traynor
Now someone looks a little tired.
Courtesy of Dave Traynor
This one’s called ‘Huggins on the attack’ and the attackees are Graham Billett and Dave Traynor and it was taken in the Midships Bar on Oriana.
There's more of Sue starting here.
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Susan Jones
Photo courtesy of Steve Borrill
Sue’s another amazing person who’s still at sea and is currently a Senior Purser on the MV Oriana. I remember her well from the old days on SS Oriana in the mid 70’s and amazingly she remembered me although she didn’t tell me for what reason which is a worry. This photo was taken on the new MV Oriana in Fremantle on 9th March 2006 which would mean Sue that when I knew you in 1975 you must have only been about 9 years old. How ever did you get a job at that age? It was fabulous to see you again.
Photo courtesy of Steve Borrill
Here she is with my old Mate Dave Jewkes who was our brilliant host on that fabulous day.
I haven't got an email address for Sue and now she's retired I'm not sure Jewkesy can pass on any messages but you could try.
There's some great photos of Sue's early days here, here.
You can see Sue's career tribute section here.
All the very best for a very long and happy retirement Susan, it was a privilege to know you and I'm proud to have sailed with you.
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Terry Bartholomew
Terry is a Senior Electro Technical Officer and has sailed on Canberra and Sea Princess that I know about.
Here's Terry entertaining an old friends, Roger Lownsborough and his gorgeous wife.
There's photos more photos of Terry in Neil Mcgrath's section and Alan MacKenzie's Canberra section.
Terry's been a great supported of this site for some time and I can't believe I haven't added him in his own section until now, somehow you seem to have slipped through the cracks Terry and I apologise for that.
Terry's email address is terrybartholomew@sky.com
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Terry Schimmel
Courtesy of Aneurin Griffith
Terry was an Assistant Engineer on the Sun Princess in 1975/76, now living in Northern California.
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Terry Wild
Terry joined P&OSNCo as J.E.O. in 1954.
As Terry's contribution has continued to grow I've decided to move it to his own section called Terry's Memories.
Terry's "Great Day" in November 1960 with Madeline the beautiful bride.
Terry writes;
In
1963 I built a GP14 sailing dinghy "Wild One". Above shows the first sailing trials in Grimsby
Docks. We sailed this boat all over the place, sold it in 1995 and got something bigger
... a Sadler 32 " Vibrant".
We had 3 boy's Jonathan,
Nicholas and Philip. Here Jon and Nic are looking a bit nervous about finding their "sea legs".
Terry's email address is terence.wild@virgin.net
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Tim Lees
Island Princess 1979
Tim was a Purser with P&O between 1976 and 1980.
Tim
writes;
I have lived and worked in Scotland since I married Heather in 1981. We
have one daughter, Jenny. I'm still in contact and meet up with many of the people I sailed with.
Tim has sent in some great group shots from Canberra, Oriana and Island Princess and Tim's career can be tracked starting here.
Tim's email address is timjl@hotmail.com
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Toby Tompkins
Toby’s the one sitting 3rd from the left with the blonde hair and beard. The guy on the left is Andy Ball and I know the faces of the other guys but the names are lost with the numerous brain cells destroyed in the pursuit of numbness. The WAP looks familiar :) Andy Ball tells me the guy next to him is Nigel "Tiny" Cook (Deck Cadet - seen elsewhere as Santa I think), and the guy on the end next to Toby is Steve "Slimey" Allen.
Toby was what I would call a reluctant friend. I really liked him a lot and he was good fun to be with but he didn’t seem to think so and trying to get him involved was sometimes quite a struggle. He’s a part of that last watch group below that brings back so many good memories. Thanks for making my time at sea so special guys.
L-R:
Dirty Harry, Toby Tompkins, me and Mike Jack.
Keith Radford’s still in touch with Toby and he’s given me various email address for him all of which have bounced so what’s going on Toby … still don’t want to be friends eh!
There’s more photos of Toby here, here,
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Tom Douther
Tom may well have been a great guy but I wasn’t to know as in all the years I was there we never ever spoke one word to each other. Shame.
L-R
Back:
Mark Sawyer, John Atkinson, Steve Musson, Mick Everson, Paul Robinson, Charles Oxley.
Front:
John Hammond, Tom Douther, Dave Whitehand.
There's more of Tom starting here.
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Tom Poole
Courtesy of Richard Reubin
Dr Tom Poole with his erstwhile PA Jean (now married to comedian Pat Mooney) taken in 1981
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Tony Clarke
Tony was a Radio Officer with P&O from 1977 to 1981 serving on Canberra, Oriana, Arcadia, Island Princess and Uganda. The above photo was when he was 3R/O and is taken standing at bottom of Canberra's spiral staircase, a favourite spot for the photographers to hang out.
Here's Tony ( 3R/O) off duty in Canberra's Radio Room on Island Night, September 1977.
Tony has sent in some great group shots from Canberra (here, here and here) and Island Princess (here).
Tony's email address is anthony-clarke@dsl.pipex.com
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Tony McCusker
Tony joined Himalaya following Seaman's School, Gravesend in 1964, then he joined Canberra after the seaman's strike in 1966 as a mess-man. He then worked as PRS, firstly in the Meridian Room with 'Fruity' Pearce as Barman. He then went to The Cricketers as PRS, then was made up to Assistant Barman with Reggie Firman. In 1971 he went on to work in the Tourist Restaurant Bar taking over from 'Oscar' Bradshaw before finally leaving to get married after the Summer Cruises in September 1971.
Tony adds;
I enclose a couple of photos of then, age 23 and now, age 60. Where has all the time gone? Not to mention my hair!!!!
Tony met his wife Veronica onboard and they are still going strong after 37 years of marriage.
They have one son and three grandchildren. They did a nostalgic cruise on Oriana in May this year to relive old memories -
and they tell me it was great.
Tony's email address is maudessa@btinternet.com
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Toni Mazonowicz
Mr Mazonowicz was God to me. He was the only Chief Engineer I sailed with on Oriana and he commanded respect if not only for the fact that he was the chief but it was much more than that. We did, in fact, have need to talk on one occasion and that was at the end of my very first cruise on the Big O when I was called into his office. He asked me if I was an Alcoholic as my wine account had been the highest in the history of P&O for one cruise. A record I was quite proud of but the truth was that my birthday had fallen in that time and I’d had a pour out to end all pour outs just to get to know everybody. Maybe he was just annoyed that he didn’t get an invite. Sorry Toni :)
That’s the man right in the front centre of course.
Below is Greg Sinclair’s memories of TONI MAZONOWICZ
These are my memories of Toni Mazonowicz (Mozzo), who was the original Chief Engineer on Oriana from when she was launched and was Chief for most of the time I was on Oriana. Mozzo was someone who commanded great respect but we didn’t have a lot of contact with him. The times I did have direct contact with him were memorable and positive.
My first memory was when he’d rejoined Oriana on my second trip and I was asked to go with him and the First (Willie Dempster) to assist them with their inspection of the main gearboxes. This involved taking the numerous inspection covers off while they checked the wear on the gears etc.
The Chief involved me in the inspection, asking me questions about the gear teeth, which were the driving faces etc. He was very good about it and I appreciated his taking the trouble to help me understand what he was looking for.
All was going well and I somehow started taking off an inspection cover for Willie Dempster even though he had his own spanner and Mozzo quickly told me to take covers off for him and said, “I’m the Chief Engineer, not him”.
My second and most memorable encounter was when I was on the starboard engine controls leaving Fort Lauderdale. We were steaming at full ahead on both engines when I suddenly got a double full astern order on the starboard telegraph. This was very unusual and meant that there was some sort of panic going on up top.
As I answered the telegraph and started shutting off the ahead wheel, I was aware of The Chief racing over and positioning himself right behind my left shoulder. I was told later that he’d been known to knock people out of the way and take over himself in these situations but he just stood right behind me.
I was opening the astern wheel as I was shutting the ahead wheel and used plenty of astern steam to bring the ahead revolutions down to zero. I’d been spending time learning the boiler room so I knew how things worked in there and I knew the importance of the fuel oil pressure. I looked up at the fuel oil pressure gauge and saw that it was nice and low, indicating that there were still plenty of fires on and kept opening the astern wheel to get full astern revolutions. I’d gone from full ahead to full astern in pretty good time. It had all happened very quickly.
The telegraph then rang “Stop” and there was no more panic. The Chief then took me by the left elbow, leaned forward and said to me, “That was very good”.
The Chief then went to the telephone and gave someone on the Bridge a real blast before going into the Boiler Room to talk to the 4th, Dave Betts. As soon as he left the other lads came over to find out what he’d said and one said incredulously, “He touched you”.
On another occasion near the end of the same trip, the Chief came to see me while I was on watch. I’d been doing watches in the Boiler Room, being primed for the step up. The Chief came to speak to me and asked if I was ready to take on the 4th Engineer’s job, to which I answered, “Yes”. I was soon notified officially by P & O.
I was really pleased that the Chief had spoken to me personally, the way he did. He was quite complimentary and made me feel confident. He was probably concerned about my age as I was only 22 years old.
I then sailed as 4th Engineer on four Mediterranean cruises. Toni Mazonowicz had gone on leave for the Cruises and John Howell was relieving him. I knew John Howell, as he was Chief on the trip when the Boiler Room fire happened.
Things started happening quickly between me and my then Fiancé and due to some difficult circumstances, I felt that I had to resign and return to Australia with her. I spoke to John Howell, who was very understanding. I tendered my resignation to John Howell and left at the end of the cruises.
I always felt bad that I’d let Mozzo down and that I hadn’t even had the chance to explain my situation to him personally, given that he’d treated me well in having me promoted. I don’t think he would’ve been very happy.
Dave Jewkes recalls this information about Toni Mazonowicz,
“A couple of years back I was Chief on the new MV Oriana at one of the welcome onboard cocktail parties. I, having to do the meet and greet, was astonished to be introduced to a Mr Mazonowicz !!?? it turned out to be a
nephew of Mozo. Anyhow, after several emails and chasing I managed to get Mozo's email address and e-mailed him. I did pass on Steve's web site details as well. Mozo emailed me back to say he was well, living down in Cornwall some place and that Joy his wife was well although was suffering from a little arthritis. He said that he had needed heart surgery a couple of years previously but he was going on 80 and never felt better. He was his usual self in that he did not linger long in conversation but was precise in his email. Unfortunately my hard disk crashed on my computer last year and I lost his email address and since then I’ve not been able to track him down again. I think I passed his address on to Andy Jackson, I will drop him a line and see if he still has it.
I was actually the J2 on Oriana for the last cruise that Mozo did onboard. I remember bringing the ship into Sydney and Mozo rang off engines !! A sad moment and I am sure I saw a tear in his eye. He left the engine room that morning and never set foot down it again, leaving the following day. Some of you may not know but he actually received the MBE just before his retirement for services to P&O and shipping in general. A befitting end to a career at sea in which I think he was one of the most respected Chiefs we all sailed with.”
David Jewkes
CTO MV Oriana
Dave Jewkes has kindly sent in this piece from the Wavelength about Toni's retirement.
I was delighted to receive this message from Jewkesy with a reply from Toni and his wife. I'm taking the liberty of posting it word for word and Jewkesy and I both believe Toni would be delighted to hear from anyone who would like to drop him an email.
Dear David
We were so pleased to receive your letter, especially Toni with all the news, we are both well, only some minor things that come with old
age. Toni will be 84 years old this year and I will be 81, I still love my
garden, and through doing too much over the years I have arthritis in my knees, but I still drive and still in the garden. Toni is well, but gets
very tired with all the tablets he is on, especially the warfarin, he loves
his computer, but is very slow in typing that is why I am typing this
email otherwise it would probably take him days to do it.
We are happy in our new house in Wrougton, its only 5 miles away from where
we lived in Wanborough before we went to Cornwall, we both miss Cornwall
so much.
Thank you for sending Steve Borrill's
website address, it is good to see what
went on behind the scenes and pictures of shipmates.
You certainly had a rough time on your trip round the I.O.W. in Aurora.
Have a super leave and best wishes for the future.
Kind Regards,
Toni.
There’s more photos of Toni here,
Toni's email address is tonmaz@aol.com
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Tony ? (Crew Messman)
Courtesy of Ron Sheldon
This is amazing to me as it's Victoria Quay in Fremantle taken in 1966 (the year England won the World Cup and decimalisation came to Australia) and I was just 13 at the time and for some strange and completely unknown reason I sent off for a free brochure out of the Daily Express for cruises with the Union Castle line. As a young lad in Scunthorpe destined to work 50 years in the Steelworks being able to ever afford a cruise was unthinkable. Every year from that year on I received their latest cruise brochure in the post.
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Tony Minards (aka Atomic Rooster)
Tony sailed on Arcadia, Uganda, Oriana and (very briefly) Canberra and now lives in Bunbury, Western Australia just 2 hours south of Perth. I used to have a picture of him but lost it in a crash. I’ve emailed him and I’m hoping he can send me some before and after shots. Does anyone out there have any of Tony?
Tony was born in Liverpool, raised in Lancashire before some fool adjusted the boundaries and it became Cheshire. He spent his teens in years in Dorset.
He volunteered for a Christmas cruise on Canberra and was a VO for that brief time. He loved Arcadia best and has lots of good memories of that vessel. Oriana and Uganda were good too though he remembers. He's still making steam and power on shore now for a large alumina refinery.
Tony just sent me this great shot of some guys from 1978 on Arcadia taken in Pago Pago courtesy of Charlie Hill (CTO Oriana). It needed a bit of a colour touch-up but it came out good. It’s a great shot.
L-R Back:
Tony Minards, Chris Fuller (aka Moon Man), Alan Conlin (aka TT), Tony Davies (aka Sid Vicious).
Front:
??, Allan Ferris (aka Joe 90).
This is Tony (in blue) taken very recently during the Hunter Valley Marathon (August ’09) with his mate from Bunbury, Ian Gibbs...
...and the winner is, Tony Minards! First in his age group (50 to 59). Tony's mate, Ian Gibbs came 2nd and what sort of coincidence is this ... the guy who came 3rd (in black) is also called Ian Gibbs!
There’s more photos of Tony here, here, here,
Tony’s email address is minards@iinet.net.au
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Tony Simpson
Tony was a Radio Officer with P&O. This was taken in the Oriana Radio Room in 1976 and I certainly remember that face although like so many non engineers I don't think we ever spoke to each other.
The news of the death of Captain Peter Love prompted Tony to dig out these two fantastic photos.
Tony writes;
"I was sad to read of the death of Captain Love last week, it prompted me to sort out some old photos, here are two of myself with Sarah Love, his daughter, during a trip ashore in Fiji. I was in the fortunate position of having them allocated to my dining table on board Oriana in 1975 during the return line voyage from Sydney to the UK. At that time I was 2nd R/O and the photos were taken by 3rd R/O Mark Jordan, who now lives in San Francisco."
What a great shot of our beloved Oriana. God I miss her and those halcyon days. Our thoughts go to Sara and all Peter's family and friends during this sad time.
Here's a great shot of the Oriana in Acapulco Bay with Tony in the foreground. I remember trying to swim back to the ship from that very spot. Yes, I was pissed and no, I didn't make it.
Tony recalls;
Whilst we were berthed in St Thomas aboard the Sun Princess during the 1970's the Anglina Laura was moored two berths along and she caught fire,
The ship was gutted, assistance was given by officers and crew from the Sun Princess, two that I recall assisting were Mike Gold and Dave Christie,
When we sailed from St Thomas at midnight we took about 600 of the passengers from the Anglina Laura back to San Juan to catch flights home, every public room and alleyway was packed. Does anyone else recall this incident?
This is the bow of the Sun Princess in Glacier Bay.
and here's the crew on a lifeboat collecting 1000 year old ice to chill the Champagne. I'm sure they've stopped doing this some time ago now.
Tony was one of the intrepid heroes who did his bit for his country in 1982. Here he is in Port Stanley, the troops in the background are now packing their kit having successfully retaken the islands. Great job fellars!
Tony's also sent in some great photos of Arcadia, Oriana, Canberra, Uganda and Sun Princess along with his wife Jayne (WAP), a Reunion group and Oriana, Sun Princess and Pacific Princess group shots that have all been added to the relative sections.
To follow Tony's photo trail start here.
Tony's email address is tony@simpson-family.co.uk
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Vince Bellam
Vince writes;
I joined Oriana on the 4th August 1974, having been in hotel management up until that point. I was 25, which was old to be a “Junior Assistant Purser”. I stayed on the Oriana, through dry docks and lay-ups until 3 October 1975 having taken no leave whatsoever. I did Medi cruising, then a main line to Aus, a season of Aussi cruising and then back to UK and another season of Medi Cruising. For all my time on board, except for the first two cruises, I was Crew AP.
In October ’75 I transferred to Canberra for the last two cruises of the Medi season. We were then in dry dock. And the Deputy Purser in charge, (no names, no pack drill, but you know who you are!) forgot to move the outgoing Goan crew out of their accommodation into passenger accommodation for the last night, to enable them to clean their accommodation for the incoming Goan crew.
I can remember him rushing into the Bureau rounding up all the AP’s working
standby, (and there were not many of us), handing out boiler suits and getting us to clean the crew accom. I still have nightmares about all the cockroaches that fell out of the bedding in the dormitory. Ugh! The place was disgusting.
At the time, I don’t know if it’s the same now, but you could only get promoted on “Sea Service”. Ability didn’t come into it. There was a logjam of senior Pursers; P&O weren’t building new ships at the time. As a cocky young man, I felt I could do a better job than the men in charge, and I remember thinking, “It’s going to take me at least five or six years to become a Deputy Purser, I need to accelerate my career!”
I left Canberra, P&O and my sea career on 22 November ’75. I’d had a fantastic fifteen months but it was time to move on, and I returned to Hotel Management.
It was fortunate that I did because I met and fell in love with my wife Angela who was working in the hotel where I went.
We married in May ’77 that’s 33 years this coming May (2010). We have two fantastic children, Christopher who is 30; he works in the music business as Head of Radio for Beggars Group. My daughter Sue is 27 and has worked for the last three years for the innovation company “WhatIf” as a Creative Coordinator, but she’s leaving soon to set up her own business.
After the hotels I worked as an Area Manager for a pub group and as an Area General Manager for Berni Inns.
In 1989 Angela and I took the plunge and went into business for ourselves as Domino’s Pizza franchisees. We opened a store in Barking, East London, one in Chadwell Heath in Essex and finally one in Hadleigh, near Southend.
In March ’08 after nearly 20 years we sold our business and I’m now retired – ‘ish.
I’d really love to hear from anyone who knew me, an e-mail would be great!
Angela Bellam, Chris Bellam, Vince Bellam, Lucy (Chris’s partner), Sue Bellam, Tim (Sue’s partner) - April 2009.
There's another photo of Vince here, and check out Vince's Memories here.
Vince's email address is vincebellam@btinternet.com
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William Stephens
Willam was a photographer and then a musician aboard Orsova and Oronsay, I believe around 1973.
William recalls:
This is me at St Peters Square, Venice. Check out the Rolleiflex & Bowen's flash including the Marine Photo Services obligatory blazer and tie.
Excellent photos William and great to see a non-engineer addition.
William has sent in a couple of great shots of Orsova here and a few of Oronsay here.
William's email address is malstephx@googlemail.com
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Willie Drummond
Photo and narration courtesy of Rod Sharpe
‘Above is an interesting shot of our Senior Second Engineer Mr. Willie Drummond, an ORIENT line man who seriously thought we were officers and gentlemen. You could always pick them, they wore a singlet under their boiler suites. Willie told me it differentiated a “Marine Engineer” from a seagoing fitter. Willie used to wear his sword in the engine room, but the chief banned this after Willie got it caught in the main switchboard and blacked out the ship.
This rather candid shot of Willie was taken at a New Years Eve party in his cabin. Being a true Scot, Willie was in general somewhat frugal. He wouldn’t shout if a shark bit him. He was betrothed to a young lady back in Edinburgh and had promised to remain true and pure until his return. On reflection he may well have been made to wear a chastity belt on that particular trip which would account for the fact he never put his hand in his pocket.
Willie held true to his noble promise until the tall attractive young lady in the picture joined us. I introduced them at Captains Cocktails at which time Willie seemed to suffer a total memory loss and all thoughts of a happy married life evaporated from his mind.
There is little doubt that Willie had designs on this young lady, but the Gods intervened and Willie was struck down with what he later told us was vertigo. We put him safely to bed shortly after this shot was taken.’
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Willie Henry
Willie is Ex Canberra, and like a few of us, lives here in paradise. Perth of course, Willetton actually but we won’t hold that against him. (It’s a North of the River, South of the River thing). He’s been working in Azerbaijan, South Western Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea, between Iran and Russia, but has just accepted a position with Woodside working out of the Perth office. The project he will be working on is called the Otway Project and it’s a new gas platform offshore in Victoria with an onshore gas plant being built at Port Cambell - so there will be occasional visits to site.
L-R:
Brian Griffin, Theresa Conway (a very attractive WAP), Gudrun Hansen (Entertainments), Willie, Jady Stevens with an unknown punter.
Above are the same 3 Engineers and the same attractive WAP sitting on Willie’s lap but interestingly the couple on their right is Billy McNeill and his wife. Billy played for, and became the Manager of, the famous Glasgow Celtic Football Club.
Above is a recent shot of Willie taken in Perth with Celia Cowan while on her recent Australia, New Zealand trip.
I hear that on a recent trip to the UK Willie went to a party at Brian Griffin’s place in Glasgow and met up with Griff, Bert McAughtrie, James (Jady) Stevens, Big Ollie (Olive the nursing sister) and John Forde’s ex-wife Lesley Demain, all ex-Canberra personnel.
There’s more photos of Willie starting here.
Willie’s email address is kskcon@optusnet.com.au
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Zak Coombs
Zak is still at sea and is currently the Executive Purser on the mv Artemis.
This is Zak with his lovely wife Tracey taken at the South Atlantic Medal Association 82 Reunion in 2007.
There's more of Zak in Alan MacKenzie's section here.
Zak's email address is ASEPURS@pocruises.com
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