William Warwick

Captain William "Bil" Warwick, CBE was a merchant sailor and the Master of Cunard's "Queen Elizabeth 2" (QE2), the first person to hold that position.
He was born on 12 November 1912 in Birkenhead, England.
He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme "Desert Island Discs" on 18 September 1967.
He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1971.
He died on 27 February 1999. His son, Captain Ronald Warwick, was a master of the QE2 later on in the ships time in Cunard service.
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He had three sons all of whom spent sometime at sea.