Just found my MS Dunera Log Book for June ’62
Good heavens – I’ve still got my MS Dunera Log Book!
- FOR CRUISE: L
- LEAVING: Tilbury
- ON: 21st June 1962
- CALLING AT: Kiel, Stockholm, Leningrad, Helsinki, Copenhagen
- NAME: Philip Alan Wake
- PARTY: Prices
- DORMITORY: Blake
According to the log book on the 14th day when we should have been back at Tilbury, we arrived at Kiel which presumably is why the log book “runs out” so to speak. All I remember is being late because of a damaged propellor, missing out on Helsinki and missing the mock A-levels in Physics. I ended up with 99% and was accused by the physics teacher of cheating. I had not cheated and therefore always remember the unfairness of his accusation but also remember thinking: “Ah well – I know the truth so it’s his problem not mine!”
I remember the teacher well – we used to call him Wick – he was very old and wizened – he threw a blackboard rubber at a child one day who was talking out of turn in class and knocked him out. Imagine what would have happened to a teacher doing something like that these days . . .
Great post Philip! I’m particularly interested in that teacher and his antics! We had one or two like that at boarding school in Somerset!!!
How WOULD this behaviour go down now – very good question. Congrats on the exam result – was it useful in your work??
Anyone else got stories to add to this site – please come on in and let us know.
Bye for now
Mike
The dreaded Wick – our Physics Teacher at Prices in 1962 – 7th from the left 2nd row up in this picture:
http://www.societyofoldpriceans.co.uk/members/OP60c.htm
As Vicar of Fareham I believe he was chairman of the board. Rumour had it (source our beloved Chemistry Teacher) that a certain headmaster got the job because everybody said: “Well it’s clear who should get the job!” and the chairman wrote down the wrong name . . .