Connie & I have been in the Far East for our usual winter break for the past 3 months. Not a lot to report I am afraid – still happy that everyone seams well. Here is the latest shipping news from the MNA MNA Circular The Pulse 2017-06 Dated 23rd […]
Roy Gerstner
Andy Burns, Brain Laing, Don Dunlop, Bob Bruce, Rod Wilkinson and Peter Napier attended a gathering in Edinburgh. Good to meet LOF folk and we hope to meet up again and hopfully some of the lads from the North East might fancy coming up for the day. RG & Don D (l) […]
LOF Mini Meet-Up in Edinburgh
In memoriam, wife of Ray, Sheila who sadly passed away 1 year ago A friend of LOF staff. Our good friend Ben Killeen who passed away last year, would have been 94 today.
In Memoriam
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. 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
Not a great deal of ‘new’ news – so I’ll post up what Connie & I have been up too. We have come on our annual extended holidays out to the Far East – something we have done for a number of years, get away from the bleak, grey, miserable British […]
News December 2016
mna-circular-the-pulse-2016-26-dated-15th-november-2016 mna-circular-the-pulse-2016-25-dated-31-october-2016 Click on link above for Shipping News…
New from the MNA
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 […]