Brian Knowles 

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(HESPERUS 1963) LEADING HAND. ON LEAVING P.W.S.T.S

'Nux' Newton on Monkey Island - 'Isle of Thanet'

Peter Matthias on board 'Eskwood' Dover

Joined - orient line 'orcades' on £10 trippers to aussie...also served on Oronsay, Orsorva, Oriana,.....Union Castle ships..Pretoria Castle & Edinburgh Castle......Shaw Saville ships....Icenic, Illyric, Canopic.....Esso tankers.....Esso Woolston & Esso Lyndhurst.......John Carter shipping. 'Cranborne' & 'Sherborne', Southern Ferries. 'Panther' & 'Eagle'............then 6 years pilot cutter skipper out of Brixham ..boarding & disembarking channel & north sea pilots.

I left trinity house pilotage service mid 80's and started uk & european coach tour company which is now well established & very successful, but hard work & sometimes wishing I was back at sea. I try & spend as much time as I can on my own cruiser which is moored in Brixham harbour.


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