Elizabeth (King) Anderson (Canada)

Elizabeth (Beth) was born in England but by the time she finished her Senior Matriculation in Vancouver, B.C. she had lived in four countries, traversed the Indian Ocean, Suez Canal, and crossed the Pacific seven times. Beth earned her 2nd Class Certificate in Radio in 1944 and went to work at VAI (Pt. Grey Rdo. Stn.) as a Marine Room operator and later a Katakana operator. After war’s end she transferred to the Dept. of Defense in Intercept. Hearing of an opening for a ship’s operator in February of ’47, Beth flew to San Francisco and joined the M/V Vito for a year and a half. After a holiday she then signed on M/V Skaubo in Seattle WA in early ’49, remaining with that ship until Feb. of ’51. Her many voyages on both vessels covered the Pacific routes and she touched at most ports from Japan down to Australia. Since leaving the sea Beth has lived in many countries and has held numerous DX amateur calls signs – EP2EA and YB0ADT being two of them. She is a keen DXer and has taken part in a number of DX-peditions over the past years. Her present call sign is VE7YL.