Alan Phipps
'Crossed The Bar' on 7th June this year aged 82 after a brave 2½ year struggle with the wretched Alzheimer's disease. Happily he was in a wonderful care home who's staff were what made it so wonderful and who genuinely loved our Dad and were never more happy than when being regaled with stories from his days sailing the seven seas in particular his extended three month stay in New Zealand during a docker's strike there and his three year stint aboard the 'Empire Windrush' up to and including it's unfortunate near sinking and evacuation in the Med after an engine room fire led to the loss of 4 crew members and it's burnt out hulk being unsuccessfully towed back to Gibraltar as it succumbed to it's mortal wounds and sank on 30th March 1954.
Andrew Phipps (eldest Son)
Ships I served 1949 - 1959
M/V Llangibby Castle 29 1949 -50
M/V Norfolk 47 1950-52
H.M.T Empire Windrush 30 1952-54
M/V Essex 54 1954
M/V Hurunui 48 1954
S/S Kent 18 1955
S/S Alsatia 48 1955
S/S Baskerville 54 1955-56
RMMV Eden 56 1956
S/S Baron Inverclyde 54 1957
RMS Berbice 43 1957-58
T.E.V Beaverglen 47 1958
M/V Hornby Grange 47 1958-59
S/S Andria 48 1959