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Ocean Monarch and Queen of Bermuda football teams for the big game in 1966 - courtesy of Ernie Barrow.

Ocean Monarch Sports & Social Club Dance at the Henry Hudson Hotel on Friday 12 June 1964 -  are you there?

Photo courtesy of Peter Manley

Cadet Michael Oakley on brass cleaning duty in 1959  -  from the collection of John Kirby.

Ocean Monarch catering officers, from the collection of Malcolm Sargent. 

Henry Latoy is second on the right with Bill Brencher in the middle.  Thanks to Bob White, we have names for all but one.  Far right is Tony Noonan, a Deck Steward who relieved as 2nd Steward with his brother Freddy, an engine room rating, second from the left. Thanks to Bert Chapman, we now have the name of the gentleman on the far left  -  Ricky Jones.

Ian Bray and his grandmother, Evelyn Shields, two of the three Bray generations serving on Queen of Bermuda.  Ian’s uncle, Jack Shields, was a barman. Photo Ian Bray

We are grateful to Graham Higgins for these archive items: four pages of the dinner menu from Ocean Monarch that featured, on the front cover, the painting ’Bermuda Sloop’ by Captain Magnus Musson, then Master of Queen of Bermuda  -  the original painting is still in the City Hall, Hamilton, Bermuda; his father’s landing card and, not to be forgotten, some swizzle sticks! 

For those who flew the Atlantic to join one of the ships, the copy of a letter (below) from the collection of Bryce Higgins will evoke many memories.  Not least is the reference to Mr Chris Yaw, [Ed: Mr Fix It]  of Furness Lines  New York  ‘downtown’ office.