NAVY NEWS, JULY 1993
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Grades that speak for themselves AN OUTSTANDING performance on a promotion course at the Royal Navy Supply School has earned LWRENSTD Linda Philip two trophies, later presented to her by the Commander-in-Chief Fleet, Admiral Sir Hugo White. Linda received the Keith Collick Memorial Trophy as the POSTD Qualifying Course candidate achieving the highest e x a m i n a t i o n result and the Leighton Chappie Trophy for the best assessment for the City
and Guilds London Institute Certificate while on this course. With grades of 96% in both assessments, Linda was deemed to have done exceptionally well. She is due to be promoted to Petty Officer later this year.
Steady as she goes Hail and farewell
DAVID Castleton has retired after 33 years in the public relations department of St Dunstan's, the organisation that works for men and women blinded in the Services. He is succeeded by his deputy Ray Hazan, who lost his sight in a parcel bomb explosion while serving with HM Forces in Northern Ireland. ODD PETER Brook, former retail trade director of Joshua Tetley and Son Ltd, has been given the task of revitalising Naafi's club and wholesale trade on HM Forces bases throughout the country. According to Mr Brook, a pub needs three things to be successful: "good, friendly staff, quality products and comfortable surroundings." "I want every Naafi club to have these," he added.
SEAL HEALING MADE SIMPLE GENTLY does it. LA(METOC) Chris Patrick prepares to remove a rope wrapped around the neck of an Antarctic fur seal. Chris, resident ornithologist on board HMS Endurance, came across the animal during a stroll in South Georgia.
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UNDERGRADUATE Midshipman Sue Hainsworth takes the helm of HMS Archer during the visit of Admiral Sir John Kerr, Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command, to Aberdeen University Royal Naval Unit. Also keeping an eye on Sue's performance and the way ahead was the Unit's Commanding Officer, Lieut. John Clink.
Out goes the Light
MR Colin Cullimore, former managing director of Dewhurst, is the new chairman of Naafi. He took over from Sir Malcolm Field. Mr Cullimore, whose earlier career as an Army officer took him from the Royal Scots Fusiliers to the Parachute Regiment, joined the board of Naafi in 1984.
cut away the rope, which was biting into the animal's flesh. The following day Chris took another team ashore to rescue a second seal. They were LSTD Richie Lovell, STD Mac Macleary and CK Robbie Preston.
While the ice patrol ship was at anchor on the north western tip of the island, the ship's company was granted leave to walk ashore. With the help of AB J P Pope, Chris was able to restrain the entangled seal and
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PA e x t r a o r d i n a i r e Miss June Light has retired after 22 years of service on the sixth floor of MOD Main Building, Whitehall, being right hand woman to 11 First Sea Lords and four Chiefs of Defence Staff.
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Miss Light joined the MOD as a typist in March 1953 and left in November the same year. But the pull of the Ministry exerted itself and she rejoined as Typist I at MOD Bath in May 1956. Promotion duly followed and the rest is history. Known by the nickname Jin Lught, thanks to a dodgy seating plan, Miss Light will be as well remembered for her sense of humour as her calm and competence.
L-R: Lieut.-Cdr. Little RN, Mr Kupr, Lieut. Sparkes RAN and Lieut. Felker USCG.
A RECENT fisheries patrol took HMAS Launceston from Darwin across the Australian Fishing Zone north of Arnhem Land to the Wessel Islands and the Gove Peninsula. This was all part of the normal service, as North Australian Area (NAA) patrol boats put in 800 patrol days a year doing civil surveillance. It was unique, however, in the multinational mix of the senior ship's company members. Commanding the Launceston, as he'd done for the past 18 months, was Lieut.-Cdr. Nick Little RN, on exchange to the Royal Australian
Navy. His acting executive officer was Lieut. John Felker, on exchange to the RAN from the US Coast Guard. He is more usually found at HMAS Coonawarra as assistant operations officer. Lieut. Peter Sparkes, the navigator, is a genuine Aussie from New South Wales. While Milan Kupr, the embarked Northern Territory Fisheries Officer, is a Canadian. His 10 years in the job has included work in Canada and Vanuatu as well as Australia. Carried out without incident, the two-week patrol nevertheless allowed a pooling of ideas and tactics in an operational context.
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