David McKee/Jim Samson
I received this email from David, if anyone knows anything about Jim Samson please let me know. Dan Jensen dje9537459@austin.rr.com
8/14/2008
Dan:
I came
across your web site while hoping to find some more information about my uncle
Jim Samson.
My uncle I believe worked on the shallow draft tankers between 1929- 1938. My
uncle served on San Nicolas, the Oranjestad and last worked on the Surinam,
which, in 1938 was in the ownership of Standard Oil - this may be a tie up with
the end of Andrew Weir interest.
I would be very interested in hearing the memories of others. He was a ships
engineer and was born in Belfast in 1907. He returned to Belfast with plans to
marry but the war intervened and he left Belfast in 1940 never to return.
I read with much interest the writings of Bill McMaster. He mentions a man
called Jimmy Kerr who was a friend of my uncle and I would welcome adding to my
knowledge of him.
David McKee