First FBL Association reunion in Bermuda, May 2012

To visit the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art website, click here

 

Regional Secretary, Allen Soares (below right), says “We are most grateful to Tom Butterfield,  (below left), Founder and Creative Director and Board Member of the Museum, for inviting former Furness Bermuda Line crew and their partners to a private viewing of the museum’s exhibition on Magnus Musson (left), his art and time with Furness Bermuda Line.”

 

 Tom Butterfield, MBE

Image courtesy of www.masterworks.com, accessed 11 Feb 2012

 

The first FBL Association reunion for former crew and their partners was held on Wednesday 16 May 2012 at the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art in the Bermuda Botanical Gardens, Paget.

The event will be featured in a future update.

 

Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art Image courtesy of www.masterworks.com, accessed 4 Feb 2012

Allen Soares, Regional Secretary

Photograph:Simon Mitchell

Captain Magnus Musson on the bridge of Queen of Bermuda

Photograph: Ian Denton

Queen of Bermuda ship’s wheel unveiled at Bermuda reunion

Allan Davidson, former Jnr Chief Officer, contacted  the website with the exciting news that the wheel from Queen of Bermuda has been discovered.  He writes “I was at the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club today and, during the course of a conversation with Paul Doughty, found out that the Club had recently been given the wheel.”

 

“Somewhat sceptically, I asked to see it and was able to confirm that it is the main wheel from the ship’s wheelhouse. The wooden grips were missing but the solid brass work is very much intact.”

 

Allan can be seen (right) at the wheel in 1958.  He say about his picture “When I used to go up to the bridge for evening meal relief from 18:30 to 19:10, the quartermaster would let me take over steering - with the consent of the senior watch keeper of course.”

Paul Doughty (left) tells us that the wheel has been renovated and adds “The Club intends to put the wheel in a prominent place available for all to see, not just members, after the Masterworks exhibit during the summer.”

Photographs: Allan Davidson, reproduced here with permission of Paul Doughty, Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, Hamilton, Bermuda