I nominate the above because he had an exemplary and respected career at sea on merchant ships from 1939 until late 1959, particularly as a Chief Engineer. In 1939 he started his career as a seaman, first on the MV Lady Slater. During the early years of the Second World War, he sailed between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico, where heavy enemy submarine activity required his ship to run at night in complete darkness ' despite having no radar. In May 1944 he got a job as Third Assistant Engineer on a Suwannee Steamship Co ship. He sailed on that ship for 9 years, with a month home each year, and worked his way up to Chief Engineer. When he got the telegram about his first son's birth, he was anchored in the Bahamas sheltering from a hurricane. When his second son was born he was enroute from the US to Holland with a cargo of sulphur ' which frequently caught fire! In 1953, Suwannee transferred him as Chief Engineer to a larger ship, chartered to shuttle bauxite from Guyana and Suriname to Trinidad, on to the US. His capacity for hard work was legendary. His former shipmates mentioned that a lot. He was known to work extended spells in the engine room, up to 72 hours at a time ' having his meals sent down to him, in order to try to keep his ship on schedule. He retired from Suwanee in late 1959 (after being offered an engineer's job with the Cayman Light & Power Co,

I nominate the above because he had an exemplary and respected career at sea on merchant ships from 1939 until late 1959, particularly as a Chief Engineer. In 1939 he started his career as a seaman, first on the MV Lady Slater. During the early years of the Second World War, he sailed between Jacksonville and Puerto Rico, where heavy enemy submarine activity required his ship to run at night in complete darkness ' despite having no radar. In May 1944 he got a job as Third Assistant Engineer on a Suwannee Steamship Co ship. He sailed on that ship for 9 years, with a month home each year, and worked his way up to Chief Engineer. When he got the telegram about his first son's birth, he was anchored in the Bahamas sheltering from a hurricane. When his second son was born he was enroute from the US to Holland with a cargo of sulphur ' which frequently caught fire! In 1953, Suwannee transferred him as Chief Engineer to a larger ship, chartered to shuttle bauxite from Guyana and Suriname to Trinidad, on to the US. His capacity for hard work was legendary. His former shipmates mentioned that a lot. He was known to work extended spells in the engine room, up to 72 hours at a time ' having his meals sent down to him, in order to try to keep his ship on schedule. He retired from Suwanee in late 1959 (after being offered an engineer's job with the Cayman Light & Power Co,