Post by KG on May 21, 2018 21:36:21 GMT
A number of notable Merchant Navy personnel include:
Adding here more as a note to myself - some may find it of interest.
K.
Fred Blackburn: England footballer.
Chris Braithwaite (c. 1885–1944): seafarers' organiser and Pan-Africanist.
Joseph Conrad: joined the Merchant Navy in 1874, rising through the ranks of Second Mate and First Mate, to Master in 1886. Left in order to write professionally, becoming one of the 20th century's greatest novelists.
James Cook: FRS. (1728–1779) British explorer.
Victoria Drummond: MBE, (1894–1978) Britain's first woman ship's engineer.
Dennis Euridge: (1929–2016) Rolls Royce engineer, shopkeeper.
Gerry Fitt: founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland
Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley: Deputy Commander in Chief of RAF Strike Command 1973–75. He started work as a deck boy in 1939 aboard TSS Cyclops.
Charles Howard GC FRS FRSE (1906–1941), Earl of Suffolk and of Berkshire. Apprentice officer on the windjammer Mount Stewart; bomb disposal expert in World War II.
Gareth Hunt: actor, notably in The New Avengers, and Upstairs, Downstairs
Violet Jessop: stewardess who survived the Titanic sinking, and author of autobiography about sailing.
Frank Laskier: WWII Merchant Navy steward who became a public icon for recruitment efforts.
Freddie Lennon: Merchant Navy steward whose son John later founded the musical group The Beatles.
Kevin McClory: Irishman who spent 14 days in a lifeboat and later went on to write the James Bond movies Never Say Never Again and Thunderball.
John Masefield: served in Merchant Navy in 1890s: later Poet Laureate.
Arthur Phillip: joined the Merchant Navy in 1751 and 37 years later founded the city of Sydney, Australia as the First Governor of New South Wales, which then included the eastern half of the Australia we know today, plus New Zealand.
John Prescott: Merchant Navy steward who became Deputy Prime Minister in 1997 under Tony Blair.
Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
Peter de Neumann: GM. "The Man From Timbuctoo", The "de Neumann Way" named for him.
Ken Russell: directed films such as Tommy, Altered States, and The Lair of the White Worm.
Alun Owen: later wrote the screenplay for A Hard Day's Night.
Frederick Daniel Parslow: VC. Merchant Navy winner of the Victoria Cross.
Archibald Bisset Smith: VC. Merchant Navy Victoria Cross recipient.
Captain Matthew Webb: (19 January 1848–24 July 1883) was the first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids.
Adding here more as a note to myself - some may find it of interest.
K.
Fred Blackburn: England footballer.
Chris Braithwaite (c. 1885–1944): seafarers' organiser and Pan-Africanist.
Joseph Conrad: joined the Merchant Navy in 1874, rising through the ranks of Second Mate and First Mate, to Master in 1886. Left in order to write professionally, becoming one of the 20th century's greatest novelists.
James Cook: FRS. (1728–1779) British explorer.
Victoria Drummond: MBE, (1894–1978) Britain's first woman ship's engineer.
Dennis Euridge: (1929–2016) Rolls Royce engineer, shopkeeper.
Gerry Fitt: founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party in Northern Ireland
Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley: Deputy Commander in Chief of RAF Strike Command 1973–75. He started work as a deck boy in 1939 aboard TSS Cyclops.
Charles Howard GC FRS FRSE (1906–1941), Earl of Suffolk and of Berkshire. Apprentice officer on the windjammer Mount Stewart; bomb disposal expert in World War II.
Gareth Hunt: actor, notably in The New Avengers, and Upstairs, Downstairs
Violet Jessop: stewardess who survived the Titanic sinking, and author of autobiography about sailing.
Frank Laskier: WWII Merchant Navy steward who became a public icon for recruitment efforts.
Freddie Lennon: Merchant Navy steward whose son John later founded the musical group The Beatles.
Kevin McClory: Irishman who spent 14 days in a lifeboat and later went on to write the James Bond movies Never Say Never Again and Thunderball.
John Masefield: served in Merchant Navy in 1890s: later Poet Laureate.
Arthur Phillip: joined the Merchant Navy in 1751 and 37 years later founded the city of Sydney, Australia as the First Governor of New South Wales, which then included the eastern half of the Australia we know today, plus New Zealand.
John Prescott: Merchant Navy steward who became Deputy Prime Minister in 1997 under Tony Blair.
Henry Nelson, 7th Earl Nelson
Peter de Neumann: GM. "The Man From Timbuctoo", The "de Neumann Way" named for him.
Ken Russell: directed films such as Tommy, Altered States, and The Lair of the White Worm.
Alun Owen: later wrote the screenplay for A Hard Day's Night.
Frederick Daniel Parslow: VC. Merchant Navy winner of the Victoria Cross.
Archibald Bisset Smith: VC. Merchant Navy Victoria Cross recipient.
Captain Matthew Webb: (19 January 1848–24 July 1883) was the first recorded person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids.