Main Meeting - Thursday 10 October 2019
Deep Sea Pilotage - a 25 year Apprenticeship
Speaker: Capt. Roger Francis
The talk outlines Roger’s career including the years spent working towards his eligibility to sit for the Trinity House Licence. There is a brief description of the ships and companies he worked for during the period of his elevation through the ranks to Master of his own ships. His career lasted 46 years, 21 of which were spent as a Deep Sea Pilot, handling some of the biggest ships in the world.
