New publication - Life on Board MQ

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Our first “Full Ahead Extra” publication presents two accounts of life on board. By coincidence, both Brian Goodhew and Richard Lingham sailed on the ship as passengers when they were small and then had jobs on board at a later date. An intriguing thought is that Richard might have bought his ice creams from Brian!
 
The booklet is in the same style and format as a regular Full Ahead (the society magazine) but has 28 pages instead on the usual 16. It is illustrated, mainly, by David Ingham’s superb photos of Medway Queen which have appeared on Facebook but which we have never published before. 
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This new publication is available now, priced at £3, from the Medway Queen Visitor Centre when it is open on Saturdays, or by post via the online shop.

If you are not online and want a copy it is also available from "Medway Queen - West". Send a cheque for £3 payable to “R. Halton” to 2 Drury Close, Hook, Royal Wootton Bassett SN4 8EL, together with an A5 stamped addressed envelope for despatch of the book. 
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It started when Richard Lingham offered his story, which was first published in Sea Breezes magazine in January 2013, to the society. This informative piece has been paired with Brian Goodhew’s accounts of his times with MQ a few years earlier and give similar insights into the working of the ship from both passenger and crew perspectives. Brian’s accounts have appeared before in Full Ahead but not in this consolidated form. Finally, we have a fantastic collection of photographs which we have not published previously. These were taken throughout the ship’s post–war service by the late David Ingham and you might have seen some of them on Facebook earlier in the year.