charles henry
19th May 2008, 14:22
Wandered onto this site and it looks interesting. My background:-
Born Glasgow, went to Bellahouston Academy and "ran away to sea" in
1942 as a cabin boy to help with the war effort..... First ship mv Tasmania, Danish vessel ran by Brocklebank was torpedoed on my first trip. (Then I wanted to run away to my school). After war took a 1st class pmg Worked at Bletchley park for a while and then wen back to sea as a sparks. Last vessel was the Cape Hawk MAHB. Took the three month radar course at the James Watt college in Greenock and then immigrated to Canada.
Sailed on mv Cheticamp, then worked in Arctic, bad business venture in Montreal and then spent 1955 with Page Engr setting up big Troposcater station in Vung Tao - Vietnam. Then joined a company manufactuirng multichannel microwave equipment. (900mhz to 50 ghz) and retired in 1988.
Thats it in a nutshell, anyone know the whereabouts of Peter Prance married to Connie Marshall, he sailed as a sparks and was a lecturer for pmg in Bristol for a while. Regards to all de Chas
Born Glasgow, went to Bellahouston Academy and "ran away to sea" in
1942 as a cabin boy to help with the war effort..... First ship mv Tasmania, Danish vessel ran by Brocklebank was torpedoed on my first trip. (Then I wanted to run away to my school). After war took a 1st class pmg Worked at Bletchley park for a while and then wen back to sea as a sparks. Last vessel was the Cape Hawk MAHB. Took the three month radar course at the James Watt college in Greenock and then immigrated to Canada.
Sailed on mv Cheticamp, then worked in Arctic, bad business venture in Montreal and then spent 1955 with Page Engr setting up big Troposcater station in Vung Tao - Vietnam. Then joined a company manufactuirng multichannel microwave equipment. (900mhz to 50 ghz) and retired in 1988.
Thats it in a nutshell, anyone know the whereabouts of Peter Prance married to Connie Marshall, he sailed as a sparks and was a lecturer for pmg in Bristol for a while. Regards to all de Chas