Sea service with
Elders & Fyffes, Canadian Pacific &
BP Tankers. Chief Engineer's Certificate
Steam & Motor 1970 followed by employment
in the Design Department of BP in London
engaged in the plan appraisal of New Building
Product Tankers, later serving as a Chief
Engineer on a Greek managed foreign flag
tanker.
He holds a First
Class Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering
and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Prize 1974. He was employed as a Lecturer
II at the Liverpool Polytechnic teaching
Undergraduates and Marine Engineers studying
for Certificates of Competency.
He also carried out
research, into the displacement of thin
cylinders under bending for the British
Atomic Energy Authority.
He is a Chartered
Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Marine
Engineers, of the Royal Institution of Naval
Architects and of the Society of Consulting
Marine Engineers & Ship Surveyors. Immediate
Past Chairman of the Hellenic Joint Branch
of the Institute of Marine Engineers and
the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
Previously engaged
in the formation of an Engineering facility
at a Cargo Survey practice Brookes Bell
& Co. in Liverpool 1975, moved to Greece
thereafter to open Overseas Maritime in
1980.
Contributor to the
English edition of the book Ages of the
Sea - a Brief History of the Greek Merchant
Marine by Dr. M.D. Los, also a technical
contributor to the book AVEROF - The Ship
That Changed the Course of History.
He is also a contributor
to a number of periodicals on the subject
of technical matters relating to shipping
and has undertaken presentations alone or
with Norton Rose and also Lloyd's List Events.
Operating in Greece as an Independent Ship
Surveyor under the privileges of the European
Economic Community, now a Consultant to
Overseas Maritime.
