FLEET HISTORY

• Line drawings of the Fleet from 1931 onwards but a few earlier ones too
• mv "Melpol" Rescue - (formerly "Somers Isle") - Report & Photos
• Poderoso - Recent photos and information from Kevin Hyland
• This is a link to the "Red Duster" Site which has a history of the company with ship photos.

PERSONNEL

• Who's Who - Deck, Engineering, Electrical, Radio Officers and Cadets, Pursers, Chief and 2nd Stewards
• WHERE are they now? - Lost contact with former PSNC officers?
• OBITUARIES

• MIXED
• Capt David Houghton's 75th Birthday Party  
• Canada Dock & The Dominion
• Eric James Sr. and Jr. - Electricians on Loretto, Laguna and Santander
• Potosi Home Trade c1960 - Engineers and Office Staff (unknown)
• Reina del Mar Officers '58-'59 - from Brian Stone
• Reina del Pacifico Officers- in Cabin Class Bar - from Chris Ellis
• Reina del Pacifico Pursers- dining al fresco - from Chris Ellis
• Salinas Officers 1948 - 6 young men - from J Alan Gibson
• Santander Officers - Christmas 1961 - from Steve Roscoe
• Santander, Walsingham, Cotopaxi and Salinas personnel - 1956 & 1958 - from Ken Bradshaw
• Sarmiento Officers 1950 - from J Alan Gibson
• Salaverry Officers - 1961? - date uncertain
• Steve Roscoe's photos on Wm Wheelwright
• Tickell, Wheeler, Nuttall, Erskine - Aug 97
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• DECK
  Reina Del Mar Navigating Officers - December 1962
  Santander Deck Cadets 1964
  TJD "Barry" Erskine,
  

• ENGINE
  Ian and Shiela Currie
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - circa 1959
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - 1963
  Ron Berry - circa 1960
  Santander Engineering Officers Christmas 1967
  

• PURSERS
  Valerie Steel, Brian Spears and Liz Rybert  
  McGarry, John
  Ross, Mike
  Slater, Alison
  Liz Rybert, Peter McSally & Alison Slater

• SHIPS
  
• PSNC ships

REUNIONS

2010 Reunion - 12th & 13th March . . . Get it in your Diaries now!

2009 Reunion - 13th & 14th March . . . Initial report & Photos too!!

Photographs of some who attended in November 1998 and March 2000 and March 2002

HUMOUR & MEMORIES

• Ken Owen's Memories as a Cadet - illustrated  
• Did they call you Jonah? - a brief account of Tony Weate's experiences as a cadet
• Neville Lester's sense of humour - from Ian Macrae
• Lessons to be learned - a humourous story
• Steve Roscoe's Memoirs - from his 1st trip onwards - a great story.  Are you mentioned?

MISCELLANEOUS

• Professional research services - research service records of former Merchant Navy personnel
• Peter Cleife remembers "Bosun John Millis"
• "Ploughing the South Sea" - a fascinating new book by former PSNC Purser John McGarry,
• La Paz - Information required for novel
• Oropesa Casualty List - sunk by a U-Boat 16 Jan 1941
• Reina del Pacifico - Reports on the disastrous engine explosion
• Old PSNC posters - Link to host site
• Reina del Pacifico and Reina del Mar - interesting illustrated articles by Liverpool Nautical Research Society
• Simplon Postcards - hundreds of ships including PSNC

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P.S.N.C. Ships (photographs)

Cuzco - a one off; built 1951 & broken up in 1977
George Peacock - named after first Captain (poor quality from a magazine)
Kenuta - sister to Cotopaxi, Flamenco, Pizarro, Potosi
Lagarto - originally Glenavy - acquired by PSNC in 1924 and renamed
Oravia - sinking off the Falkland Islands November 1912
Orbita - Launched 1914. Broken up 1950
Orduna - Launched 1914. Broken up 1951 - thanks to Mike Berry in Australia for postcard
Potosi - sister to Cotopaxi, Flamenco, Kenuta, Pizarro
Reina del Pacifico - a beautiful liner built 1931 & broken up 1958
Reina del Mar - another beautiful liner built 1956 & broken up 1975
The two Reinas - in Callao, Peru
Samothrace - in 1947 renamed "Talca"
Santander - sister ship to Salamanca, Salinas and Salaverry
Salinas - sister ship to Salamanca, Santander and Salaverry
Somers Isle - sister ship to Cienfuegos and Eleuthera
Talca (III) - formerly Samothrace
Wm. Wheelwright - named after the founder of PSNC

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P.S.N.C. Former Sea-Going Personnel

• Captains . . . . . Chief Officers . . . . . 2nd Mates . . . . 3rd Mates . . . . . 4th Mates . . . . Deck Cadets
• Chief Engineers . . . . . 2nd Eng . . . . . 3rd Eng . . . . . 4th Eng . . . . . Junior Eng . . . . . Engineer Cadets
  
• Electrical Engineers . . . . . Plumbers
• Pursers
• Chief Stewards . . . . . 2nd Stewards
• Radio Officers

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