Members comments and contributions to QE2 Captains topic

[June Ingram]

Thank you very much, Richard, for the information about your father.  I would most definitely like to hear more first hand information from you, having read about him in the context of books written by others.

June   

[Sam Warwick]

Hi June,

A small correction for Captain D. W. Perkins. His first command was 19-May-2006 in Southampton, not 16-May-2006 (Gibraltar).
I also finally have a picture of Captain Wadsworth (albeit as chief officer) which you are welcome to use from http://www.qe2.org.uk/captains.html. I just need one of the elusive Captain F. J. Storey now to complete the set!

Sam

[Lynda Bradford]

Thanks Sam for your help with the information for Captain Perkins and the link to the photo for Captain Wadsworth

Best Wishes
Lynda

[June Ingram]

Many thanks, Sam, for the information. All the best, June

[Andy Holloway]

Hi June,

A small correction for Captain D. W. Perkins. His first command was 19-May-2006 in Southampton, not 16-May-2006 (Gibraltar).
I also finally have a picture of Captain Wadsworth (albeit as chief officer) which you are welcome to use from http://www.qe2.org.uk/captains.html. I just need one of the elusive Captain F. J. Storey now to complete the set!

Sam

David Perkins was Staff Captain on Caronia, he was due to sign off in Buenos Aires, but his lovely mother,(Jean) who had been travelling as 'family & friends' was not due to leave until Rio some days later. Unfortunately one of the BA flights to Rio had to turn around due to a medical emergency and this caused a huge 'knock on effect', with delayed and cancelled flights for several days. I was also signing off in Rio together with a load of other crew. On the said day, we arrived at Rio airport to discover that we would be having to wait at Sao Paulo airport for several hours while the on coming crew had their required 'down time'! While we were waiting Mrs Perkins suddenly came up and offered a phone card - this was pre mobile phone days - to any body who needed to contact their families to inform them of the enforced delay. Even when the card ran out of money she just went and bought another and handed it around.
A lovely lady who was like a 'mother' to those crew on that flight back to UK!

[Alex Tarry]

I believe we had the privilege to be on Captain Perkins last command of the QE2, in August 2008, around the Med, after which he handed over to Ian McNaught for the final voyages...I understand he lives quite close to us in Suffolk, but haven’t come across him since...

[Andy Holloway]

David Perkins was born in Kingston, Jamaica ! When he joined Cunard, his mother told us she had said to him, to only say Kingston and leave people to 'believe' he meant Kingston, Surrey! Later in his service he 'boasted' about his place of birth and developed a very accurate Jamaican accent!

[Peter Mugridge]

I must offer congratulations to Ian McNaught, who is listed in the newspaper this morning as having been awarded a C.V.O. in the New Year Honours List.



C.V.O. = Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.  That's one of the more senior honours.

[Lynda Bradford]

Thanks for posting the news about Captain McNaught being awarded this honour in 2019. 

Good news about a very popular QE2 Captain, I will add this information to his profile.  If you have a link to a news report that mentions that Captain McNaught will be getting this award, I can also add this to his profile. 

[Peter Mugridge]

At the moment the only links appear to be to lists of the whole honours lists with only the highest profile people getting specific articles; maybe there will be something more what we need later when the specialist maritime sites pick up the news.

[Rob Lightbody]

Congratulations to Captain McNaught

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/new-years-honours-2019-list-full-mbe-obe-cbe-knight-dame/

[Thomas Hypher]

Congratulations Ian! Very well deserved!

[cunardqueen]

Which of these did you sail with?

[Peter Mugridge]

Paul Wright.

[cunardqueen]

Personally it was Portet, Riddley,Hassell,Bennell,Woodall,Burton Hall,Wright,Bates & McNaught.