Owen Shepheard

[huwships]

SHIPS NAME AND SERVICE RECORD

Full Name

Owen Shepheard

Discharge Book Number

R90774

Department

Deck

Your Rank/Rating

Boy seaman - Master

Which Ships were you on and When

Fishguard-Rosslare ferries 1927-9
Various 1929-42
Esso Petroleum 1942-67

Notes:

Captain from 1947
Appointed OBE 1963

[Doc Vernon]

Thanks for listing your details Owen. However and i stand corrected is there not one digit missing in your Discharge Number ,there as i recall were always six plus the R in front??
Cheers

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Doc

No, my father's DisA was issued in 1927! I have it still.

[j.sabourn]

I would imagine 6 letter numbers didn’t come into a dis. Book until at least the late fourties or early fifties. JS