Ben Bradley on Boatbuilding

My first sort of memories of the sea are from my father who was a Shipwright. Before the War, he worked on the Union Castle ships which ran between Southampton and South Africa.

During the War, he was seconded to the Royal Navy and worked as a Shipwright in Sierra Leone and Ceylon.

At the end of the War, he worked as a Shipwright at J S Whites, and then joined Cunard where he became Ships Carpenter on many of the Queen Liners.