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No. 39 AUGUST, 1957
Published first Thursday of the month
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THE ROYAL NAVY 'AT HOME' Navy Days at Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham
WHY ARE there Navy Days, and what are they for'! It all began many years ago with the sailors of Portsmouth making a collection for the homes for orphan children of men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, lit 1927. Admiral Sir Osmond Brock, the Commander - in - Chief, Portsmouth, decided that the system of collections and processions should h changed and a "Naval Charities Week" should be held. The public would pay one shilling and could see H.M.S. Victory, the 1) 0 c k y a r d M it en ns and several warships. Admiralty, consent was obtained and the title of "Navy Week" was adopted. The first Navy Week in Portsmouth proved most successful and in 1931 Navy. Week became an annual institulion at the three Home Ports.
and a Navy Week's Trust Fund was formed to alloc:ute the profits to appropriate charities. In 1939 Navy Week preparations had to he cancelled, and it was not until 1948 that Navy Weeks began in their new guise of Navy Days at the Easter and August Bank Holiday week-ends. These dates were chosen to fit in with the dockyard holidays and the ships' time in harbour to give leave. Navy Days, although less elaborate than Navy Week, were a success and show most clearly that the love of ships and the sea and the work of the Navy still lives in the hearts of the men and women of our island. Last year ÂŁ23,989 was realised by Navy Days and Air Days and was distributed principally through the King George's Fund for Sailors and Charities Helping the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. for was responsible The organisation of Navy Week Portsmo'uth became centralised at Portsmouth raising ÂŁ8,123 of this total.
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The Princess Royal Visits H.M.S. Lynx
ON FRIDAY, July 19, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal travelled to Portsmouth and spent a day with the Navy. The object of her visit was to see H.M.S. Lynx the A.A. frigate which she launched on the Clyde in 1955. Arrival the jetty gave the Princess a royal Her Royal Highness was met by the salute on her departure and the cereCommander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir mony was completed by saluting and all ships firing a royal Guy Grantham, and the Lord Mayor battery of Portsmouth on her arrival in the salute as the royal carriage made its the dockyard. port and taken to Admiralty House. way through As the royal party left Admiralty House to drive to South Railway jetty, where H.M.S. Lynx was berthed. a royal salute was tired by the Naval ll.M,.S. Superb will he open to i.siIors at Cliatliani saluting battery in H.M.S. Dolphin and all the ships in tidal berths in the harbour, The Princess was received at the jetty by a royal guard of one wasi by Lieut.-Cdr. E. C. Sprcadbury, R.N., hundred men mounted by H.M.S. AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD girl the flown by helicopter from St. Mary's with Lieut.-Cdr. D. J. H. Temperley, Victory. The Queen's Colour of Portsmouth Command was paraded Hospital, Newport, Isle of Wight, to RN., as observer. the South Bank. London, suffering This is one of the first occasions on from severe head injuries, having fallen from a bicycle. The Naval heli- which a Naval helicopter has been copter, a Whirlwind, was sent from used to assist the transfer of a patient cess had inspected her royal guard, Lee-on-Solent at short notice, piloted I from hospital to hospital.
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Luncheon (nfl board After this the ship's company were dispersed and the men joined their families and friends who had witnessed the proceedings tip to this point. Her Royal Highness then moved about meeting members of the crew and their families. The Princess had luncheon on board H.M.S. Lynx with the Captain and Mrs. Gray and the ship's officers, while the ship's company and their families had refreshment and a buffet lunch, provided by the ship's cooks, tinder the canopy on the jetty. When Her Royal Highness left H.M.S. Lynx the crew manned the ship's side and gave three hearty cheers. The royal guard paraded on
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