Obituaries
Daniel Ivor McMillan
Retired River Thames Pilot Dan McMillan died on 31st March 2008. Born in Portsmouth 24/9/1927, he wastaken back to the Gravesend area by his Mother in 1928, after the unfortunate death of his Father, and brought up in that same district. Read the rest of this entry »
Anthony Harold MacKenzie Thurgood
Tony Thurgood (1930-2008)was born in Forest Hill, London. He joined HMS Conway in April 1947, and left in April 1949 to join the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. Read the rest of this entry »
Captain Colin Vine
CAPTAIN COLIN VINE DSC RD RNR FNI
Colin Frank VINE was born in November 1915 and died in May 2007. Read the rest of this entry »
Fulton, Bruce Craig
Bruce Craig Fulton
(1940 - 2007)
Bruce was born in the Wirral on 12th May 1940, the son of Liverpool Pilot Douglas C Fulton. Read the rest of this entry »
Smith, Gerald Alexander
GERALD WILLIAM ALEXANDER SMITH
It is with sadness that I report the death of Gerald Smith, on Tuesday, 24 April. He died at home after a short illness. Read the rest of this entry »
Rollinson Alec
Alec was the only child of a Master Shipwright and Boatbuilder, who had at one time been a Millom Pilot. Read the rest of this entry »
Harrison, Geoffrey Edgar
There are many retired pilots throughout the UK who, although not widely known outside their own District, were dedicated to their work as a pilot and their passing should definitely be recorded in the annals of the UKPA (M). Read the rest of this entry »
Simpson, John A
My father, Captain J.A. Simpson, died on 29th December 2006, in his home at Lower Largo, Fife where he had been born almost 93 years earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
Temple, John Christopher
John Christopher Temple 1940 - 2007
Merseyside and the Liverpool Pilots have lost a true seafarer in retired Liverpool Pilot, John Christopher Temple, who died on 22nd January 2007, after six months of a dreadful illness, which he bore with great dignity. Read the rest of this entry »
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