Herbert Gladstone McDavid

Sir Herbert Gladstone "Mac" McDavid CBE MSM (1898-1966) ya fito ne daga Liverpool, Burtaniya. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Meritorious Service a Yaƙin Duniya na farko . Daga ƙarshe ya zama shugaban, manajan darektan kuma abokin tarayya na kamfanonin sufuri (Glen Line, Alfred Holt &amp; Co), mataimakin darektan sufuri na teku a Ma'aikatar Sufuri ta Yakin Burtaniya a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu kuma an ba shi daraja don shirya sufuri a lokacin Rikicin Suez a 1956. 

 Farkon rayuwar mutum 
An haifi Herbert Gladstone McDavid a Liverpool a ranar 19 ga Mayu 1898.  Iyayensa sune Denis da Octavia (née Christian) McDavid . Shi ne babba a cikin 'ya'yansu biyar. Mahaifinsa ya yi aiki a matsayin mai yanka. Kakan mahaifiyarsa, Jacob Christian, ya kasance mai kula da jirgin ruwa daga Antigua wanda ya zauna a Liverpool.

McDavid ya yi karatu a Cibiyar Liverpool kuma ya fara aiki ga Alfred Holt & Company a 1915, inda kawunsa biyu suka yi aiki.

A yakin duniya na farko, McDavid ya shiga lokacin da yake dan shekara 18 a 1916 kuma da farko ya kasance a Burtaniya a cikin Sojojin Sojoji sannan kuma Liverpool Scottish Battalion . Costello, Ray. "Black families in the First World War". National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 5 October 2020. A watan Mayu 1917 an tura shi Faransa kuma nan da nan aka kama shi fursuna na yaki. Ya koyi Jamusanci don ya zama mai fassara, ya kasa a yunkurin tserewa kuma ya shiga cikin gudanar da sansanin kurkuku.

McDavid bai yi aure ba. Ya yi rashin lafiya daga farkon shekarun 1950 zuwa gaba. Ya mutu a London a ranar 14 ga Oktoba 1966. 

 Ayyukansa a cikin jigilar kayayyaki 
McDavid ya koma Alfred Holt & Company a cikin 1919 kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin gudanarwa don kamfanin Blue Funnel Line wanda ya ba da kaya da sabis na fasinja zuwa Gabas ta Tsakiya daga Liverpool. A shekara ta 1936 an tura shi zuwa London don shiga gudanar da Glen Line da aka samu kwanan nan tare da jiragen ruwa 10 waɗanda suka ba da irin wannan sabis amma daga tashar jiragen ruwa a gabashin Ingila. Ya zama darektan a watan Mayu 1938, a karkashin C. E. Wurtzburg, manajan darektan daga shekara ta 1937. 

Kamfanin ya ba da umarnin karin jiragen ruwa kuma wasu suna cikin Jamus suna jiran isar da su lokacin da yakin duniya na biyu ya fara. McDavid, tare da taimakon Admiralty, ya haifar da ƙoƙari na kwace waɗannan jiragen amma bai yi nasara ba. An kwace jiragen ruwa na Glen da ke akwai kuma McDavid ya zama Mataimakin Darakta na Sufuri na Ruwa a Ma'aikatar Sufuri ta Yakin a 1941. Ya haɓaka hanyoyin da suka inganta don ɗorawa da sauke jigilar sojoji kuma yana da babban matsayi wajen tsara saukowa a arewacin Afirka, Sicily, Italiya da Normandy. A ƙarshen yaƙin ya ɗauki matsayin Darakta na Sufurin Ruwa kuma ya kula da dawowar yanayin zaman lafiya.

A shekara ta 1946 McDavid ya koma Glen Line. Ya zama manajan darektan a 1952, sannan kuma shugaban a watan Yunin 1954. Ya ci gaba da alƙawura a matsayin shugaban da manajan darektan McGregor, Gow da Holland Ltd (wakilin jigilar kaya da kamfanin inshora ), da kuma shugaban McGregor، Gow da Robinson Ltd. Ra'ayinsa cewa Alfred Holt & Company yana buƙatar ƙarin, da sauri, jiragen ruwa don aiki ga Glen Line daga tashar jiragen ruwa na gabashin Ingila ya haifar da umarni don jiragen ruwa hudu na Glenlyon a cikin 1960 waɗanda aka kawo a cikin 1962-3. An ba da umarni ga wasu jiragen ruwa na Glenalmond guda hudu a 1963.

McDavid ya yi ritaya daga Glen Line a ƙarshen 1964  amma ya ci gaba da rike manyan alƙawura da yawa. Ya kasance darektan ɗan lokaci wanda ba babban jami'in Glen Line ba har zuwa ƙarshen 1965 da kuma memba na kwamitin Ocean Steamship Co. Ltd kuma abokin tarayya a Alfred Holt & Co. Ya kuma kasance memba na kungiyoyin sufuri kamar Baltic Exchange, Babban Majalisar Jirgin Burtaniya, Kamfanin Worshipful na Shipwrights, da Port of London Authority (1958 zuwa 1964). A shekara ta 1956 ya ba da shawara ga gwamnati kan al'amuran sufuri a lokacin rikicin Suez . 

An ba McDavid lambar yabo ta hidima bayan yakin duniya na farko saboda hidimarsa a sansanin fursunonin yaki. A shekara ta 1944 an nada shi CBE saboda aikinsa game da saukowar Normandy.  A shekara ta 1947 Netherlands ta sanya shi jami'in Order of Orange Nassau  kuma ya karbi lambar yabo ta Amurka ta 'Yanci tare da dabino na azurfa. An ba shi lambar yabo a shekara ta 1956 saboda aikinsa a lokacin rikicin Suez .  

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Matattun 1966
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1898