- requests for information about people & ships.   New requests added regularly!

FLEET HISTORY

• Line drawings of the Fleet from 1931 onwards but a few earlier ones too
• mv "Melpol" Rescue - (formerly "Somers Isle") - Report & Photos
• Poderoso - Recent photos and information from Kevin Hyland
• This is a link to the "Red Duster" Site which has a history of the company with ship photos.

PERSONNEL

• Who's Who - Deck, Engineering, Electrical, Radio Officers and Cadets, Pursers, Chief and 2nd Stewards
• WHERE are they now? - Lost contact with former PSNC officers?
• OBITUARIES

• MIXED
• Mike Lee's beautifully decorated PSNC Lifebuoy first displayed at the 2015 Reunion
• Capt David Houghton's 75th Birthday Party
• Canada Dock & The Dominion
• Eric James Sr. and Jr. - Electricians on Loretto, Laguna and Santander
• Potosi Home Trade c1960 - Engineers and Office Staff
• Reina del Mar Officers '58-'59 - from Brian Stone
• Reina del Pacifico Officers- in Cabin Class Bar - from Chris Ellis
• Reina del Pacifico Pursers- dining al fresco - from Chris Ellis
• Salinas Officers 1948 - 6 young men - from J Alan Gibson
• Santander Officers - Christmas 1961 - from Steve Roscoe
• Santander, Walsingham, Cotopaxi and Salinas personnel - 1956 & 1958 - from Ken Bradshaw
• Sarmiento Officers 1950 - from J Alan Gibson
• Salaverry Officers - 1961? - date uncertain
• Steve Roscoe's photos on Wm Wheelwright
• Tickell, Wheeler, Nuttall, Erskine - Aug 97

• DECK
  Cotopaxi Cadets 1958
  Reina del Mar Navigating Officers - December 1962
  Santander Deck Cadets 1964
  TJD "Barry" Erskine,
  

• ENGINEERS
  Russell Judge's Photos - Bill Waring (electrician) and Russell Judge  
  George Hawkins - and un-named colleagues from 1950' & 1960's
  Salamanca Officers 1962
  Ian and Sheila Currie
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - circa 1959
  Reina Del Mar Engineering Personnel - 1963
  Ron Berry - circa 1960
  Santander Engineering Officers Christmas 1967
  

• PURSERS
  Valerie Steel, Brian Spears and Liz Rybert  
  McGarry, John
  Ross, Mike
  Slater, Alison
  Liz Rybert, Peter McSally & Alison Slater

• SHIPS
  
• PSNC ships

REUNIONS

2025 Reunion - 26th & 27th March 2025
2024 Reunion - 27th & 28th March 2024
2023 Reunion - 24th & 25th March 2023
2022 Reunion - 18th & 19th March
2020 and 2021 Reunions were cancelled owing to Covid-19
2019 Mancheter Ship Canal Tritp . . . . . Report & Photo  
2019 Reunion - 22nd & 23rd March . . . Report & Photos
2018 Reunion - 9th & 10th March . . . . Report & Photos
2017 Reunion - 10th & 11th March . . . Report & Photos
2016 Reunion - 11th & 12th March . . . Report & photos
2015 Reunion - 13th & 14th March . . . Report & photos
2014 Reunion - 14th & 15th March . . . Report & photos
2013 Reunion - 15th & 16th March . . . Report & photos
2012 Reunion - 16th & 17th March . . . Report & photos
2011 Reunion - 11th & 12th March . . . Report & photos
2010 Reunion - 12th & 13th March . . . Report & photos
2009 Reunion - 13th & 14th March . . . Report & photos
2008 Reunion - 14th & 15th March . . . Report & photos
2007 Reunion - 16th & 17th March . . . Report & photos
2006 Reunion - 17th & 18th March . . . Report & photos
2005 Reunion - 11th & 12th March . . . Report & photos
2004 Reunion - 12th & 13th March . . . Report & photos
2003 Reunion - 14th & 15th March
2002 Reunion - 4th one
2001 Reunion - 3rd one
2000 Reunion - for the "survivors"
1998 Reunion - the original

Photographs of some who attended in November 1998 and March 2000 and March 2002

HUMOUR & MEMORIES

• Keith Adams fascinating career from early 1953 in PSNC - he swallowed the anchor aged 78! (Sept 2019)
• Oscar "Ossie" Baker's Memories as a Cadet in WW11 - At 91 years young he has a great memory! (Oct 2015)
• Ken Owen's Memories as a Cadet - illustrated.
• Did they call you Jonah? - a brief account of Tony Weate's experiences as a cadet.
• A Cadet's sense of humour - from Ian Macrae.
• Lessons to be learned - a humorous story'
• Steve Roscoe's Memoirs - from his 1st trip onwards - a great story.  Are you mentioned?

MISCELLANEOUS

• Sketch of Cadets on Orbita - fom Bernie Guymer (1 July 2019)
• Salinas & Suez Crisis - from Malcolm Ratcliffe (Jun 2019) 
• Derek Holland's Photo - Derek and lifeboat crew from Cienfuegos in Nicaragua (Jun 2019)  
• Were you a Warsash Cadet? - Martin Greenwood would like to hear from you (Jan 2013)
• Captain Stowe D.S.C. - Wartime Master of Reina Del Pacifico (Jan 2013)
• Capt S.E. "Jock" Ayland's photos and memorabilia - from Alison Hayes (Jan 2013)
• Arthur Stringfellow's Photos  incl. Eleuthera personnel and Cricket team, Salaverry fishmeal fire and Island Boats laid up in Fowey c.1970.
• House Flag Badges are now available!
• Professional research services - research service records of former Merchant Navy personnel
• Peter Cleife remembers "Bosun John Millis"
• "Ploughing the South Sea" - a fascinating new book by former PSNC Purser John McGarry,
• La Paz - Information required for novel
• Oropesa Casualty List - sunk by a U-Boat 16 Jan 1941
• Reina del Pacifico - Reports on the disastrous engine explosion
• Old PSNC posters - Link to host site
• Reina del Pacifico and Reina del Mar - interesting illustrated articles by Liverpool Nautical Research Society
• Simplon Postcards - hundreds of ships including PSNC
• Songs by Richard Robinson . . . access the songs he performed at the 2010 reunion, including "You Miss The Rolling Sea"
• Life and Death of PSNC Captain James Barr - 1830 to 1890
  

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P.S.N.C. Ships (photographs)

P.S.N.C. Former Sea-Going Personnel

• Captains . . . . . Chief Officers . . . . . 2nd Mates . . . . 3rd Mates . . . . . 4th Mates . . . . Deck Cadets
• Chief Engineers . . . . . 2nd Eng . . . . . 3rd Eng . . . . . 4th Eng . . . . . Junior Eng . . . . . Engineer Cadets
  
• Electrical Engineers . . . . . Plumbers
• Pursers
• Chief Stewards . . . . . 2nd Stewards
• Radio Officers
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