NAVY NEWS JANUARY 1969
SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
No. 158
SUBMARINE WITH AN HONOURED 'PEDIGREE'
Computer pay start by 1970
It is anticipated that the Naval Pay and Records Computer Project at Fort Rowner will start to handle certain pay accounts of ships and establishments in 1970.
The main personnel block, which, when completed, will house 700 people, and the computer building, were started in .the autumn of 1967., A section of the Director General of Navy Accounts, dealing with fleet pay affairs, will be the first to be transferred to Fort Rowner. At a later date the staff from, the Commodore Naval Drafting, now at Haslenere, will be accommodated in the new computer establishment.
The fleet submarine H.M.S. Warspite, the seventh in the Royal Navy to bear that "honoured name," follows a ship which took part in two world wars and gave splendid service for over 30 years. The name is generally believed to be an Elizabethan compound after the manner of Dreadnought, i.e. Wars-despite, a term of defiance, although it has also been connected with "spight,"
eight 15-inch, and eight (originally 12) six-inch guns, was built between 1912 and 1915, being sold in 1947.
The first Warspite was a ship of 1596, sold in 1649. Tbee 3rd rates followed one of 1666 renamed Edinburgh in 1715 and broken up in 1771; another of 1758 renamed Arundel in 1800; and the third of 1807. burnt in 1876. The first Warspite was a ship. cruiser of 1884 sold in 1905 and the sixth, a battleship, "The Old Lady" of 30,600 tons, carrying
Part of the 5th Battle Squadron, the battleship Warspite was severely damaged at the Battle of Jutland, the ship's helm being jammed, causing her to circle towards the enemy at "hellfire corner." As late as 1929 the ship carned the scars of Jutland, for in the Captain's Office, the jagged edges of a shell hole remained. The battle honours of the
the archaic name for the wood- At Jutland pecker.
An era now past. The " Jutland " Navy Wrspite in her full glory.
ships which bore the name bear evidence of their work. In the Second World War alone the was awarded 13. battleship There are 25 altogether. There was the Second Battle of Narvik, when the Warspite, wearing the flag of Admiral Whitworth and accompanied by nine destroyers, entered the fjord and sank eight German destroyers and a U-boat. Then, after the Norway evacuation, H.M.S. Warspite became the flagship of the late Admiral
of the Fleet Sir Andrew Cunningham in the Mediterranean, taking part at Matapan (when three Italian cruisers and a couple of destroyers were sunk), and being present at Crete, Sicily,, and Salerno. She also took part in the D-Day invasion.
Broke adrift
Sold in 1947, the Warspite chose a rocky cove in Cornwall for her grave instead of submission to the shipbreaker's hammer, for while being towed northwards shebroke adrift and was driven ashore. There must be many who have fond memories of that fine ship. The present nuclear-powered Warspite was built by Vickers at Barrow, laid down being "December 0, 1963, launched on September 25, 1965, by Mrs. Wilson, wife of the Prime Minister, and commissioned on April 18, 1967. Of 3.500 tons displacement (standard) she is 285 feet in length and has a beam of 33 feet.
She
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The following table shows
the total points at the top of each
advancement
roster
as
at November 1. The number in parenthesis indicates the number of men with the same number of points.
When a roster is shown as "Int" (Intermediate) it means that there are fewer men on the roster than can possibly fill the expected vacancies during the next nine months. Ratings lacking seniority, V.G. conduct, or medically unfit, have been omitted. CPO 1482 (2) Ch Sntkr 989 CPO Wtr 1609 CPO SA 707
P0 208
LS lot
P0 Wir 402 PD SA 445
LWir 275 I.SA 307(4)
CPOCk (Es S) 1715 CPO Std 2166 CPoCk (11 0) 2233 MAA 1480 CERA/ Ch Mech 384/257 LM(E) Int. Ch CEAICh c Stech Dry P0 C Eli P00 El Dry Ch REA/ CuRE Meek Dry LREM Dry CPO MA .623
PO Ck (ex S) 1252(2) P0 Sid 595 Pock (ex 0) 1044 SIAA (ex cux'n) 1476 Ch M(E) 2171
Ch OEA/Ch OE Slech Dry LCE',ti LOEM DRY Ch K El 1270
P0 MA 506
I.Ck(esS) 380
L Std mt "LCk(ex'O) 303 RPO 641 P0 M(E) 99 Ch Shpt Dry Ch C El/ Ch 0 El 1847
P0 K El Dry
L MA 327
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CV 494 RS 368 RS(W) Dry ICAA(O) CAA(AE) Dry Dry CAM(O) CEA(Air) Dry Dry CHELMECH CHREL- MECH (Air) (Air) Dry CAF(AE) Dry POAF(AE) 2530 CAF(O) 333(2) 2404 POAF(O) CA(AH) 395 POA(AH,) 2178 CA(SE) 939 1099 POA(SE) CA(Phot) .280 295 POA(Phot) CA(Met) 590 1589 POA(Met) CHEL(Air) 76 2267 POEL(Alr) CHREL(Alr) 189 2220 POREL(Air) m t
LRO (T) 467(2) LRO(G) 322 LRO(W) Dry CAM(AE) Dry CREA(Air) Dry
On the day that H.M.S. Blake left Portsmouth for trials at the start of her new career on December 2, H.M.S. Gambia, the Mauritius class cruiser of 8,000 tons, which was first commissioned in 1942, left harbour under tow for a Scottish shipbreaker's yard. The Gambia, which saw action in the Pacific during the war, was placed in reserve in 1960 and has - been moored in Farรงham Creek ever since.
Operate
submerged
the
following Official Express SerWee for EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Service
Personnel
Return Fare SALISBURY 11/6 WORCESTER GLOUCESTER READING PORTLAND 20/ PLYMOUTH 39/ NEWPORT 29/6 CARDIFF 32/6 SWANSEA LONDON from PORTSMOUTH 15/6 LONDON from GOSPORT .. 18/LONDON from H.M.S. COLLINGWOOD 17/' Pay Weeks special arvices to, . Newcastle-on-Tyne 83/Sunderland Stockton-on-Tees
Return Fare 6o/
LEEDS BRADFORD
......... SHEFFIELD NOTFINGHAM LEICESTER NORTHAMPTON LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME STAFFORD WOLVERHAMPTON BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY WARWICK -BANBURY
endurance of this class demonstrated the by 12,000-mile homeward voyage from Singapore o . at.. ,. ant, setting a record for subpassage by a British submarine o C 'o .1 days non-stop. , - The badge of the present ship is a ship's gun (circa 1600) in g old on a g green field The battleship's crest was a woodpecker branch of a -spight) on the The Beth dura ship's motto des iclo - (I despise the hard 0 war, is an knocks extremely apt one.
48/42/6 28/6 57/53/6 46/37/6 31/6 28/6
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LAM(AE) Normal LAM(O) 397 LA(AH) 220 LA(5E) Ant LA(Phol) 380 LA(Met) 344 LEM(Alr) lot LREM(Air) Dry
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ment is 13 officers and 90 men.
LEADING POINTS ON THE ROSTERS
HIROSHIMA VISIT The Daring class destroyer H.M.S. Diana, and the fast antisubmarine frigate (ex destroyer) H.M.S. Grenville, called at Hiroshima on December 2 on a goodwill visit.
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Other ships in this series are: Theseus, Ocean, Bulwark, Centaur, Glasgow, Kenya, Newcastle, Albion, Ark Royal, Loch Killispori, Diana, Taciturn, Daring, Chevron, Zest, Vanguard, Murray, Cumberland, Scorpion, Liverpool, Apollo, Sheffield. Girdleness, Lynx, Salisbury, Maidstone, Newfoundland, Warrior, Britannia, Bermuda, Victorious, Corunna, Alamein, vigo, Tyne, Jutland, Talent, Pal' liser, Explorer, Porpoise, Redpole, Gambia, Tiger, Russell, Dainty, Protector, ,Uudine, Defender, Dartiugion, Carron, Eastbourne, Torquay, Mounts Whithy, Bay, Belfast, Hermes, Armada, Yarmouth, Lion, Hartland Point, Leopard, Token, Chichester, Echo, Loch Fada, Tenhy, Puma, Blake, Excatibur, Troubridge, Rhyl,
inch homing torpedoes. Comple. 9
Camperdown, Oberon, Cachalot, Blackpool, Berwick, Diamond, Acheron, Layburn, Scarborough, Sea Lion, Falmouth, Ashauti, Broadswood, R.F.A. Tidesurge, Striker, Plymouth, Barrossa, Virago, Nubian, Hampshire, Gurkha, Caprice, Adamant, Eskimo, Duchess, Brave Borderer, Leander, Grenville, Agincourt, Tartar, Jaguar, London, Kent, Ajax, Devonshire. Lowestoft, Hardy, Dreadnought, Eagle (modernised), Lynx (modernised), Osiris, Cambrian, Loch Lomond, Dido, Sidlesham, Wakeful. Triumph, Roebuck, Mohawk, Alderney, Trump, Heclu, Naiad, Zulu, Lototen, Reclaim, Grufton. Orpheus, Ursa, Woolastou, Dundus, Brighton, Fearless, Manxman, Glumorgan, Aurigu, Forth, Hecate, Finwhale, Olwen (formerly Olynthus), Relentless Fife, Intrepid, Dampier, Aisne, Leopard Ocelot, Galatea, (1967), Londonderry. Abdiel, Sirius, Vidal, Minerva, and R.F.A. Engudine.
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