The Editor

                       JOHN CLANDILLON-BAKER

I am a Master Mariner and started my career as a deck cadet with Ellerman Lines in 1969. Having obtained my Master’s Class 1 certificate in 1981 I left Ellerman City Liners to  work in  Nigeria for Ocean Inchcape (Nigeria) Ltd as supply vessel / tug master. In 1983, still with OIL (Nigeria) I became a pilot/ loading Master at the Bonny offshore oil terminal, handling VLCC’s at the Single Buoy Mooring (SBM) facility off the Nigerian coast. In 1987 I returned to the UK and worked ashore for an import and distribution company and during this time also skippered the owner's yacht. In 1989 I became a Pilot with the Port of London Authority where I am still employed full time as a Class 1 senior pilot, handling all classes of vessel from VLCC’s to small coasters in the Thames Estuary and the river berths to seaward of Crayford Ness. I have been the volunteer editor of the magazine since 1996. The magazine is published quarterly.

The articles and features have all either been written by me or by volunteer contributors. Whilst they are made freely available for genuine research please contact me for permission if you wish to reproduce any of the articles or parts of articles in a journal or research paper. I normally just require an acknowledgement credit to the author and the magazine.