While reading in bed on Thursday morning between 6.30 and 7.45 Captain G. ©. M. Blackmore, master of the A. P. C. str. Asiatica, died suddenly in his room at the Merchant Service Club, presumably from heart failure.
When the room boy took tea to the deceased's room at half past six he seemed to be quite normal. On bringing up his breakfast about an hour and a quarter later the boy found him dead. Medical aid was immediately sought but life proved to be extinct.
Deceased was a master mariner holding a first-class certificate, and an ex-naval officer, having joined the Royal Navy as a cadet and passed out as midshipman in 1900. He became a sub-lieutenant in 1904, but left the Navy three years later to serve in the Mercantile Marine. As an officer in this service he held many responsible posts afloat. Prior to the war he was employed in a master's capacity in one of the Eagle Oil Co.'s vessels. Almost immediately after hostilities commenced his services were called upon by the Admiralty, by whom he was appointed to various commands in the Naval Transport Service, in which he earned frequent official commendation for good work with the convoys.
With the end of the war he was again in the merchant service, serving with the Anglo-Saxon Oil He transferred from the command of one of their vessels, the Turbo, to join. the marine staff of the Asiatic Petroleum Ca.; with whom he had remained from March, 1922, until his sudden death at the age of 39, He was a most lovable character with a large circle of intimate friends who will_ mourn his death. His home is in London, w! his wife and two children reside.
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