About this user
He is without question one of the most popular maritime guest speakers in the world today. Using very rare maritime archive film, his talks are an absolute delight - informative - enthusiastic - hilariously funny, creating one of the most fulfilling and entertaining performances available, be it for a special occasion, club meeting or as a guest speaker aboard cruise ships.
Des has had a very chequered career Boy Rating - Asst Purser Pop Star - Star of the original Candid Camera television series Writer, Producer and Director of television programmes, all of which is reflected in his talks.
He first went to sea as a 16 year old Boy Rating with The New Zealand Shipping Company Ltd, part of the P&O Group and rose to the dizzy heights of Assistant Purser. He was the youngest officer in the British Merchant Navy at the time. He also served with Cunard and one of the things that helps to make his talks so interestingly different is, he is one of the few recognised maritime guest speakers in the world to have had actual sea-going experience, enabling him to draw on a wealth of anecdotal stories that often have his audiences falling in the aisles with laughter.
He also takes the subject of his talks very seriously and, with the aid of very rare archive film, most of which is unique to Des and never screened in public before, takes his audiences back to those halcyon days of merchant shipping. He shows you our seaports and estuaries in the days when they were crammed with ships of every shape and size, mostly flying the Red Ensign with pride. He takes you aboard the ships of such famous companies as P&O - Cunard - Blue Funnel - Port Line - Ben Line - Shaw Savill - Royal Mail - Furness Withy - Union Castle - New Zealand and Federal Steam Ship Co - Palm Line - Elder Dempster - Brocklebank - British India - Ellerman Lines etc., etc and you sail with them on their voyages around the world.
For more information go to www.snowbow.co.uk
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Maritime Memories
Des is the person behind the now extremely successful Maritime Memories. They operate fantastic voyages aboard a great cruise ship only they manage to and turn back the hands of time to operate it just as they used to operate ships during 'The Golden Age of Shipping'.
No huge computer controlled crowds all hurrying from queue to queue aboard one of today's shapeless, box-type cruise ships. No, Maritime Memories have a real ship, just as they used to be years ago.
She's just 20,000 gross tons, carries 600 passengers and as well as all the normal comforts and entertainment of a modern cruise ship, she also has something few ships have anymore; plenty of wide open teak lined decks, where you can just sit and dream away during the daytime and in the evening, sit beneath the splendour of starry tropical skies, having a drink or two and just listening to the soothing sounds of the passing ocean. Yes, that's what we call really going to sea!
For more information go to www.maritime-memories.co.uk
Age
22
Country
United Kingdom
SnowbowProductions
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