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Brian is looking for anyone who sailed with him! Trawling through the Internet as one does, I came across your website with much interest.  In the 50’s and early 60’s, I was a Radio  Officer and had the pleasure of signing on between 1956 and 1960 , the London Endurance, […]

Brian Harvey – Ex R/Off



  I am not sure if you are aware of the MNA, an organisation that has been established over many years. You can sign up for their very extensive and comprehensive news-letter which comes out fortnightly, it is full of shipping news, plus a lot of history. It is sent […]

Merchant Navy Association – The Pulse



 I sailed with ‘Rolly’ Sisterson (Pud to some of his friends) twice in LOF, on both occasions he organised many ‘social’ events, sometimes who build a make shift Swimming Pool out of dunnage and scrap for everyone to enjoy. We were stuck in the Persian Gulf for over 2 months in the heat, but to […]

Happy memories of Rolly Sisterson + Photo





So another year passes, I send birthday greetings from Sunny Southern Phuket… Dick Cunningham was 74 on the 31/12/14 Bruce Thomas was 47 on the 05/01/15 John Peters will be 65 on the 13/01/15 Ben Killeen will be 92 on the 14/01/15 Robert Mayman will be 70 on the 18/01/15

Happy Birthdays….


We’ve now gone live on our new revamped site as mentioned in my last update of 2014. Unfortunately a number of teething issues have prevented all the previous content from the old site being available today. Rest assured that all that content, including all the photo galleries and historic LOF […]

New Site Live


I have enjoyed the last 16+ years since producing a simple but expensive printed Christmas News-Letter in 1998 (The year after LOF was sold). The website has ‘found’ a large number of ex employees ranging from the late 1930’s through to the last employee in 1997. At times can be […]

A Happy New Year 2015