Happyboating Posted January 20, 2021 #1 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I’ve just seen this in our local paper and thought that it might be of interest to a few of you: https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/obituaries/qe2-captain-david-perkins-from-bury-6916048 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Essiesmom Posted January 20, 2021 #2 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I don't believe he was the last captain of QE2. That honour went to Captain McNaught. EM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted January 20, 2021 #3 Share Posted January 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Essiesmom said: I don't believe he was the last captain of QE2. That honour went to Captain McNaught. EM Captain McNaught was appointed Master of QE2 on 17th April 2003. Captain Perkins was appointed on 19th May 2006. The article correctly says last appointed captain. There were four captains appointed after Ian McNaught. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare carlmm Posted January 20, 2021 #4 Share Posted January 20, 2021 How sad. He appeared to be a fun-loving, approachable man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Host Hattie Posted January 20, 2021 #5 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Captain Perkins was in command during our cruise on QE2 in her final season so I was sad to read of his death. Thank you for posting the link to his obituary @Happyboating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Colin_Cameron Posted January 20, 2021 #6 Share Posted January 20, 2021 4 hours ago, carlmm said: How sad. He appeared to be a fun-loving, approachable man. He was indeed. We first met him on Crown Dynasty and we were assigned to his table in the dinning room. In those days if you were at an officer’s table that was your table for the cruise. It was just like any other table, except that during the day one of you had work to do. We were warned by the maitre d’ beforehand that towards the end of the meal his pager would probably go off and he would leave early. But in the event we were the last table out of the restaurant, just in time for all of us to make it to the show, then on to the Kit-Kat club (the equivalent of G32 or the Yacht Club). By the next day word had spread among the staff and crew. Apparently this was unheard of. We we subsequently met up on four other ships and cocktails in his cabin became quite common. We met Lucy and Lawrence several times (must have been during school holidays). At cocktail parties he always said he only knew one joke - He caught a fish that weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces, someone in the front row was primed to ask how he knew the weight, to which he replied “because it had it’s own scales.” - but this was far from the truth. Some of them definitely only suitable for broad-minded company.🤬 This news comes as quite a shock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare david,Mississauga Posted January 20, 2021 #7 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Thank you for letting us know. We have a framed photograph of meeting him on our last voyage on the QE2 in April 2008. His sense of humour was appreciated by those who heard his address at that cocktail party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanky Lad Posted January 20, 2021 #8 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Very sad news, I sailed with Captain Perkins at least once and remember he was a lovely man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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