An engineer by training and a naval officer for thirty years, Victor Crockett brings the discipline of the sea to the voyage to Mars.
He studied engineering at Southampton University in the Aeronautical and Astronautical department before graduating in Ship Science, joining the Royal Navy Reserve along the way. He went on to work as a professional engineer in Glasgow, Dundee, London and Portsmouth, while a thirty-year naval career took him from operations at sea into naval intelligence.
From his serviceCopenhagen
The forests of 1801
Perhaps the highlight of his intelligence career: a letter from the Danish Agricultural Agency to the Danish Ministry of Defence, reporting that the forests planted in 1801 by order of King Christian VII had finally matured, and asking where the timber should be sent to replace the fleet sunk by Nelson at Copenhagen. A request went to the Military Attaché in Copenhagen to investigate.
Investigate
Service record
Early 1960s
Born
Grows up and goes to school in a Berkshire new town.
Southampton
Engineering & Ship Science
Studies in the Aeronautical and Astronautical department and joins the Royal Navy Reserve.
Engineer
Four cities
Works as a professional engineer in Glasgow, Dundee, London and Portsmouth.
At sea
Operations
Second in command of a minesweeper, then in command of a fast patrol boat.
2003
Naval intelligence
Mobilised as part of Operation TELIC.
Today
Writing
Beyond Tranquillity, with many more books already drafted.
He lives in Essex with his wife, Pauline, to whom this book is dedicated.
