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Title: commodore engineer
Post by: dandalady on Friday 06 April 12 11:15 BST (UK)

Hi, my great aunts husband was a commodore engineer with Cunard in Liverpool. Does anyone know what the commodore bit signifies?
thanks in advance

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 06 April 12 11:28 BST (UK)

I think it means he was the senior engineer for Cunard.

Stan

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: stanmapstone on Friday 06 April 12 11:41 BST (UK)

"Sometime later the British merchant marine began calling the senior officer of a merchant fleet Commodore."
http://navywives.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=185:rank-commodore&Itemid=244

Stan

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: dandalady on Friday 06 April 12 16:52 BST (UK)

thanks for that info. wow, i,m impressed.

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: tucsonda on Sunday 06 July 14 23:16 BST (UK)

Was he by any chance George Patterson OBE.....

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: tucsonda on Friday 26 June 15 19:36 BST (UK)

My Gt grandfather George Patterson OBE was Commodore Engineer of the Cunard Fleet

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: dandalady on Monday 29 June 15 11:44 BST (UK)

how interesting. Until I starrted researching I had not come across this term. My relative was Andrew Finnie.

Title: Re: commodore engineer
Post by: C louise wilson on Wednesday 03 March 21 02:04 GMT (UK)

George patterson obe engineer for cunard was also my great grandfather. He is burried in rhyl cemetery not 200meters from my granparents grave. Winifred and john wilson. John wilson was his grandson. Son of Horice Wilson