Scanned photograph from my father's album - Eric Clubb in 1944, aged 24.

To summarise his career I have included below extracts from his obituary written by Dr. George Emmons of Merchant Navy College, Greenhithe in September 1983.

"Eric Clubb had a long and varied career in the nautical field. After his Apprenticeship with Port Line he entered the RNR in 1939 and served until 1946, rising to command a Corvette. In 1947 he returned to the Merchant Service where he served with the New Zealand Shipping Company until 1951, when he joined the School of Navigation at the University of Southampton. He remained at Southampton until 1965 becoming Head of Department and making a host of friends amongst both Staff and Students. Leaving in 1965 he entered Her Majesty's Inspectorate where he remained until retirement in 1980 when he joined Merchant Navy College."

Dr Emmons very effectively sums up Eric Clubb's character as follows:

"His easy courtesy, unruffled nature and ready sense of humour all combined to assure me that he was a man with whom I should find it a pleasure to work and relax. To him a difficulty was something to be overcome rather than something by which one was overcome. Bureaucratic pettiness had no appeal for him and his concern was for the spirit rather than the letter of any law."

See also "World War II Unit Histories & Officers".