Yearly archives: 2016


Ā Greetings from Ra Wai Southern Phuket where Connie & I are staying over Christmas & New Year. Great to meet up with Keith (McCart) ‘Or’ and son ‘Ert’. Keith sailed as a Navigating Cadet during the 1960’s, he left because he didn’t particularly like Tanker life. He joined the UK […]

Meet Up in Phuket Thailand!!!


We are in sunnier climates – Southern Phuket for Christmas & New Year…whilst here I am meeting up with Ex LOF Deck Officer Keith McCart….more after we meet. Ā Received correspondence from Andy Nelson, whose father Roy Nelson was Master with Counties and LOF….If you look at the LOF News Printed […]

Merry Christmas & A Prosperous Healthy New Year


Ā Not a great deal of ‘new’ news – so I’ll post up what Connie & I have been Ā up too. We have come on our annual extended holidays out to theĀ Far EastĀ  – something we have done for a number of years, get away from the bleak, grey, miserable British […]

News December 2016




Today I met up with Bob Bruce and Rod Wilkenson for a catch up. We suggested that we try and meet on a regular basis and thought it might be a good idea to post it on the LOF website. We hope some of the northern member might be available […]

Message from Don Dunlop


My thanks to LOF E&EO Robert (Bob) Bruce..who sent the following. Bob Blake, Don Dunlop, Rod Wilkinson, Margaret and I attended today. I passed on the messages from Campbell Dobie, Dennis Jakobaufderstroht, Bob Mayman, Jonathan Plunkett, Bob Stinchcombe and yourself. Sheila was very pleased to hear from everyone and sends […]

Funeral of Capt Andrew McNab



News is coming in of the passing away of Capt Andrew McNab. The funeral is at 09:30 on Tuesday morning at the RC church in Livery Street in Bathgate, West Lothian. LOF E&EO Bob Bruce is hoping to attend. I have no further news and Capt McNab was not on […]

Passing Away of Capt Andrew McNab



It is with great sadness to inform our shipmates, friends, and colleagues of the death of Ben Killeen. Ben was a Radio Officer with LOF, having sailed with Marconi and when LOF employed their R/O’s direct Ben transferred overĀ around 1958. I have covered some history of Ben in the past, […]

Ben Killeen (R.I.P.)



Not a lot of News from LOF friends…so Connie & I who are celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary later this year – have already begun the ‘celebrations’…. We left the UK at the beginning of July and started our extended holiday in Vancouver, then onto Anchorage/Alaska for a 8 days […]

Happy Holidays – Again