Carrie
16th December 2009, 00:59
Some weeks ago I found Shipsnostalgia´s forums and also understood that there might be someone around remembering Captain Walter Gerald (Gerry) Hunt from Everards. If so it would mean a great deal to me I you would like to share your memories with me. Good or bad! As one of his children and maybe the youngest I got to know him mainly through letters and postcards from different ports; from Archangelsk to Casablanca and Istanbul and lots of European ports in between. For different reasons contact was broken in the mid-seventies when I was still a child. He was born on October 13 in 1916, lived with his family in Plymouth and some of the ships he sailed on were Fred and Rosemary in the sixties and Summity in the Seventies. He sailed on Scandinavia and that is where I live.
Since my memories of him in real life are few and my knowledge of his history even less known to me I would appreciate anything that can enlighten me on his life on the Everard ships as well as on his life and whereabouts before the fifties as I know he also had children born in the forties. I have tried to search records. It is not easy and I am a beginner but I would love to be able to learn more about my British roots. I do know that he served in the Merchant Navy during World War II and got some kind of medal but nothing more about these important years is known to me.
As a child and teenager in the seventies end eighties I also met with Everard´s captain Ronald Trethew(e)y and his wife.
My own occupation is in some ways connected to shipping and if we had been in working life at the same time our roads probably would have crossed. In that way I also feel an extra interest in and connection to his occupational life.
Thanks in advance
Carrie
Since my memories of him in real life are few and my knowledge of his history even less known to me I would appreciate anything that can enlighten me on his life on the Everard ships as well as on his life and whereabouts before the fifties as I know he also had children born in the forties. I have tried to search records. It is not easy and I am a beginner but I would love to be able to learn more about my British roots. I do know that he served in the Merchant Navy during World War II and got some kind of medal but nothing more about these important years is known to me.
As a child and teenager in the seventies end eighties I also met with Everard´s captain Ronald Trethew(e)y and his wife.
My own occupation is in some ways connected to shipping and if we had been in working life at the same time our roads probably would have crossed. In that way I also feel an extra interest in and connection to his occupational life.
Thanks in advance
Carrie