Jim Mackness, 4225, has advised us, from his home in Tauranga, New Zealand, that his close friend, Captain Clive Spencer, 4071, 1951-53 , sadly “crossed the bar” in December 2025. Clive also lived in Tauranga and wrote the following entry for our “Where are you now” page in April 2021:
I attended TSM between 1951 and 1953. My seagoing apprenticeship was served with The Hain SS Co. Ltd., of London. I had an awful job in passing 2nd Mate’s but finally succeeded.( 2nd Mate’s in 1961, Mate’s in 1963 and Master’s in 1966.) I worked for a variety of firms before settling with the Union SS Co. of NZ Ltd. My last full-time job was as Harbourmaster at an Australian minerals exporting port called Gove, up in the Northern Territory. I finally retired in 2000 and came home to wife and family here in NZ. Have been back to sea a few time as a relieving ship-master but at 83 I don’t think I’ll be going again. All in all an interesting sort of life.
I was saddened a bit back to hear that my best pal at TSM, Fraser Sanders (4154), had died. Another good friend from those days is John Blount who lives up North in the Bay of Islands district of NZ. Can’t remember John’s number! None of us are getting any younger but it is still good to keep in touch whenever possible. Tauranga, New Zealand.