General Botha - Class of 1973 | Roll Call
2429 Adam J.C. | 2430 Birtles J.A. | 2431 Bradford S.C. | 2432 Clack G.H. | 2433 Clayton C.J. | 2434 Curran J.J. | 2435 Demont M.C. | 2436 DeVilliers W.G. | 2437 Du Preez A. | 2438 Durell G. | 2439 Greensmith R.J.T. | 2440 Hatch V.T. | 2441 Holmes B.M. | 2442 Hulley M.E. | 2443 Logan A.G. | 2444 McClure T.J.T. | 2445 McGhee D. | 2446 Melvin D.G. | 2447 Merriman I.P.D. | 2448 Moon P.A. | 2449 Moran K.A. | 2450 Nunes F.P. | 2451 Pelizzari P.D. | 2452 Potgieter P.A. | 2453 Proctor S.C. | 2454 Rapson G.T. | 2455 Rycroft C.F. | 2456 Santana F.A.P. | 2457 Smith J.R. | 2458 Talbot N.G. | 2459 Tissink J.C. | 2460 Theunissen S.P. | 2461 Van Zyl J.W. | 2462 Wheeler P.R. | 2463 Whitehead R. | 2464 Zwaan B.J.R.
2438 Durell G.
For the sake of brevity I'll just give you a brief synopsis of my movements since leaving Bothie.
I stayed at sea with Safmarine for a good while, did all my tickets and eventually after getting my Masters ticket and literally waiting around for 'dead man's shoes' in the form of command, I called it a day at sea in 1986. My last year at sea being as Chief Officer on the passenger ship "Astor".
I then took a secondment ashore to the ships planning office where we planned the stowage of the containerships. Boredom quickly set in again as it was all pretty routine and I then moved ashore permanently by taking a position in the liner side as an Operations Co-ordinator for the multi-purpose
vessels on the Far East trade.
About a year later I was on the move again, this time into the bulk shipping division as an Operations Manager. Another move to Chartering (still within bulk shipping) for a while and then back to operations to head up the team. Then in 1995 I moved back to the commercial world of Chartering again and
have essentially been in that side of the business since then.
At the end of 2000, shortly after Safmarine was split up and sold I left to take up an offer by Island View Shipping to start an office in Cape Town. Three of us set up an office for I.V.S. in Cape Town specializing in the larger size of bulk carrier chartering and operations. We report to the head office in
Durban where the M.D. is none other than another '73 classmate,
namely Tim Mc Clure! Small world........
