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Terry Waite
David Perkins was the final captain of the QE2
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To be taught how to play backgammon by Omar Sharif, and to host and meet with such prominent individuals as HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Nelson Mandela and Princess Diana does not normally fall to many of us.
Yet such events formed a part of the career of David Perkins from Bury St Edmunds, who rose from deck officer cadet at the age of 18, to be appointed as the last captain of the world’s most famous passenger cruise liner, the QE2.
Captain Perkins was loved by all