I see there was a query about Alan Holmes and other radio officer on the QE2 recently.
The original ROs from 1968/1969 were :-
Don Butterworth Chief ( From Near Blackpool)
Alan Holmes 1st RO ( From Lancs- Blackburn ?.)
Myself - Roger Latham (from Leicester) 2nd RO
Dave Wayne ( from Conway) 3rd RO.
Also around this time relieving :-
A.J.G. Fry ( from Wantage Berks)
Declan ( O Reilly ?).. (Ireland) I believe he was later killed when going ashore in Rio when RO or so I was told by an RO in Fremantle years ago.
Not so well know were two ladies helping in the radio office with the typing on the Creed teleprinters during first voyages.
One of them was :-
Josephine Smith (from Gosport Hants)
and am not sure of the other name - I must check my diary from this time.
All the best
Roger
The original ROs from 1968/1969 were :-
Don Butterworth Chief ( From Near Blackpool)
Alan Holmes 1st RO ( From Lancs- Blackburn ?.)
Myself - Roger Latham (from Leicester) 2nd RO
Dave Wayne ( from Conway) 3rd RO.
Also around this time relieving :-
A.J.G. Fry ( from Wantage Berks)
Declan ( O Reilly ?).. (Ireland) I believe he was later killed when going ashore in Rio when RO or so I was told by an RO in Fremantle years ago.
Not so well know were two ladies helping in the radio office with the typing on the Creed teleprinters during first voyages.
One of them was :-
Josephine Smith (from Gosport Hants)
and am not sure of the other name - I must check my diary from this time.
All the best
Roger