Master Mariner

From his days as a cadet on the aging training ship Worcester Captain Philip Rentell's forty-year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served as a junior officer on numerous freighters and liners as the navigator of cross-Channel hovercraft and then as first officer of the Cunard flagship QE2 on which he went to the South Atlantic with over 3500 British troops and a volunteer crew of 650 during the Falklands War of 1982. SInce leaving Cunard in 1990. he has been and English Channel and North Sea pilot and has commanded a succession of cruise ships.<BR />