NAVY NEWS, J U N E 1990
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DEBORAH I ON FIANCE WHEN 771 Naval Air Squadron was tasked with practising winching onto a Dutch submarine a willing volunteer was found in Second Officer Deborah Hogg. Deborah, the public relations officer at Royal Naval air station Culdrose, was winched from a Sea King helicopter onto the fin of HRMS Tonijn — and there to greet her was her finance, Lieut.-Cdr. Jankees Trimpe Burger, the submarine's commanding officer. The couple, who met when they were working for Flag Officer Submarines in Faslane, are being married on July 21 in Freshford, near Bath, where Deborah's parents live. Deborah was delivered to the submarine by Lieut.-Cdr. Ian Domoney, commanding officer of 771 Squadron, senior pilot Lieut.-Cdr. Colin Hawksworth, winchman Steve Dodd and diver Dave Wallace. A former pupil at Bath High School, Deborah spent three years at London University and two years working as a fashion model before joining the Navy in 1986. Lieut.-Cdr. Trimpe Burger left Faslane to take command of the Tonijn which recently visited Falmputh on its way back to Holland from an exercise in the Mediterranean. He has served in the Dutch Navy for 14 years and lives in Den Helder. Lieut.-Cor. J a n k e e s Trimpe Burger and Second Officer Deborah Hogg, who "tie the knot" in July.
Second Officer Hogg is winched on board HRMS Tonijn by 771 Naval Air Squadron.
Top lob at DRPS NEW head of the Th-Service Defence Radiological Protection Service, based at the Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, is Surg.-Capt. John Harrison. He has t a k e n over from Surg.-Capt. Robert Carmichacl, who was appointed head o f l h c old Naval Radiological Protection Service in 1976 and became head of the Tri-Scrvice
organisation in 1982. The DRPS provides a corporate radiation protection advisory and support service worldwide. Its staff of 60 is employed on
VIEW OF SULTAN THE Rev. Reg Sweet, Naval Chaplain at HMS Sultan, the Marine Engineering School at Gosport. has put his artistic skiffs to good use. An enthusiastic painter of seascapes, fie was asked to paint a picture, prints of which could be used as the HMS Sultan 1990 Christmas card, sold to raise money for charity. The finished work, e scene depicting the Sultan Wardroom in a winter snowscape, so impressed Sultan's officers that they decided to buy and frame the picture and add it to the Wardroom's collection of nautical paintings. Mr. Sweet {left) is pictured presenting the painting to Wardroom Manager Lieut Dick Kerwood. He admitted that the painting had presented a challenge — especially imagining the Christmas snowl
tasks which include radiation monitoring in ships, units and air stations to ensure that Service procedures comply with statutory requirements; sampling water and beach sediments around nuclear submarine bases; and provision of f i l m badges doserneters to 10,000 Service and MOD civilian personnel. Radiation saietv is currently a hot subject, following ihc Gardner Report on the possible association between high radiation doses and childhood leukaemia and other suggestions that exposure to non-ionising radiation, such as microwave and radiofrequcncy, might be implicated in disease.
Victor's screen finale
VICTOR McDowell has retired from the Royal Naval Film Corporation after serving with distinction as the film distribution officer in the Portsmouth library for nearly ten years. Responsible for supplying Portsmouth-based ships with films and videos, and overseeing the libraries at Devonport, Ro syth and Faslane, he made an important contribution to the morale and well being of the Fleet. Victor joined the Navy as a Boy Telegraphist in 1939 and was invalided out in 1973 in the rank of Lieutenant (SD)(C>. He sat the Civil Service direct entry examination and joined HMS Centurion as an executive officer in 1974. Following a spell at HMS Daedalus he became Film Distribution Officer in the RNFC's Portsmouth library in October, 1980. Many of his "customers", associates, staff and friends were present at his farewell party.
GOING FOR GOLD WEAPONS Engineering Mechanic Simon Smith took a trip to London to be presented with his Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme Gold Certificate — from the Duke himself. Simon, who is serving at HMS Collingwood, the Royal Naval Weapon Engineering School at Fareham, comes from Aston, near Sheffield. His sister Julie Smith is serving in the WRNS.
PUBLIC SCHOOL FLIES THE FLAG OLD boys of Gordonstoun, the Scottish public school, all currently serving as flag officers or in command, dined on board the amphibious assault ship HMS Intrepid. They included Vice-Admira! Sir James Weatherall, NATO's Deputy Supreme Commander Atlantic; Rear-Admiral Jonathan Tod. Flag Officer Portsmouth; Capt. Richard Bridges. HMS I n t r e p i d : Capt. Andrew Ritchie. HMS Hermione; Capt. Malcolm Rutherford. HMS Collingwood; and Cdr. James Miller. HMS Avenger.
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