With regard to the Radio staff. There were the initial "gang of four", Don Butterworth, myself, David Wayne and Roger Latham. We were all from the "Brocklebank" subsidiary of Cunard and fresh from cargo ships. Cunard had asked Brocks to supply R/O's for the Carmania and Franconia and the new Queen, which had,as yet, not been launched or named. I eventually left "Samaria" in April 1968 and the four of us went on a grand tour of inspection round the suppliers of radio and radar kit to the new queen. QE2 had been launched at 3pm on the 20th of September 67, and our daughter arrived into the world 15 hours later on the 21st. We didn't call her Elizabeth by the way. Two further Radio Officers arrived to make up the complement of six. They were Gordon Fry and Clive Russell. More names to add to Willum's list. The only one of us with passenger ship experience was Clive, so we relied on him heavily in the early days. More to come after a brew.
