You will have heard the phrase a "busman’s holiday", meaning to do the same thing outside of work as you do in your day job. Well, here is one that could go down as a "shipbroker's holiday".

Paul Willcox, the long-standing chairman of London shipbroker and Eggar Forrester Group subsidiary C W Kellock & Co, is currently bobbing around the south Atlantic on what is set to be the final return voyage of the RMS St Helena (built 1989).