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RN's Star role 'magnificent' - US admiral

Wyllie - the seaman's artist centre pages

Submarines revelation as Sharp Guard is sheathed

THE PERFORMANCE of British ships taking part in Exercise Purple Star has been described as "magnificent" by the US admiral in command of the naval elements of the joint Anglo-US operations.

From his flagship USS Mount Whitney, Vice Admiral Vern Clark made this signal to all the Royal Navy and RFA ships as the exercise ended: During the past three weeks, you, the men and women of the United Kingdom Task Group, distinguished yourselves in the most complex combined joint operation in recent history...

You brought considerable expertise to the exercise and we were all the better for it. Above, on, and under the sea, your performance and war fighting were magnificent. • Purple Star report and pictures - pages 12-13

HMS Cumberland riding high in an Atlantic swell as she heads home from Exercise Purple Star.

SHARP GUARD - NATO's long running naval embargo operation against countries of former Yugoslavia - has been wound up.

And as the multi-national force of warships prepared to leave the Adriatic it was revealed for the first time that six British submarines took part in the operation.

They have been named as HM submarines Turbulent, Spartan, Talent, Tireless, Triumph and Splendid which each spent between 18 and 30 days on station during the four-year embargo.

Sharp Guard was discontinued with five days notice from midnight on June 18 following the lifting of the United Nations arms ban.

HMS Nottingham Combined Task Force 440, which comprised 18-20 warships at any one time, has been stood down. Latterly it included HMS Nottingham as a member of Standing Naval Force Mediterranean (STANAVFORMED).

Ships of Standing Naval Force Atlantic had already departed the Mediterranean in mid-May, leaving STANAVFORMED and the ships of the Western European Union on station - including a German submarine.

Since the operation started on June 15, 1993, 61,328 ships have been challenged, 5,057 boarded and 1,233 diverted to Italian ports for inspection. "The ring of steel has proved so effective that no violators have been able to break the embargo," said Lt Cdr Keith Barnwell on the • Turn to back page

Wren in field gun crew A FEMALE sailor has run in competition as a member of a field gun A crew for what is believed to be the first time.

WSTD April Chandler (22) is one of HMS Nelson's 18-strong crew which took part in the Brickwoods Field Gun Competition at HMS Collingwood. Brickwoods Trophy winners this year were Collingwood's A team.

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THE FIRST pictures. «f of tha the Royal Navy's new ocean survey ship, HMS Scott, have been released by her makers, Appledore Shipbuilding Ltd. They show the vessel in build at the company's North Devon yard.

HMS Scott, which will weigh in at 13,500 tonnes, will be the biggest survey vessel ever built for the Navy and represents the first ship in a programme of major renewal of the Surveying Squadron.

Her size will allow a high standard of accommodation, including an almost unheard of single cabin for each member of the ship's company.

She will be equipped with the most up to date equipment to reduce on-board maintenance and to provide maximum operational availability for her task of gathering environmental data in remote ocean areas.

Her main sensor will be an advanced American sonar allowing her to survey up to 40 sq miles of seabed in only one hour. ri4C CIDCT ni^ir

Plea over pension 'injustice' FIVE former Chiefs of the Defence Staff have urged the Government to rectify what they term as injustices in the Armed Forces pension scheme.

Admirals of the Fleet Lord HillNorton and Lewin are among those who signed a letter to The Times seeking a change in a rule which debars widows from receiving their Service husbands' pensions if they were married after retirement and the husbands retired before 1978.

They also want to see a change to the rule by which widows whose husbands retired before 1973 receive only one-third pension, while those whose husbands retired later receive half.

DEATH OF JUTLAND VETERAN JUTLAND veteran Jack Cotterell has died aged 100 at Nantwich.

Born in Pontypool, South Wales. Jack joined the Navy in 1912 and served throughout World War I in the cruiser HMS Gloucester. As well as taking part in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, the Gloucester was involved in the pursuit of the German battlecruiser Goeben across the Mediterranean, and took part in the hunt for commerce raiders in the Pacific and South Atlantic.

Jack left the Navy as a Leading Stoker Mechanic in 1924.

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thanks N. Ireland Squadron NORTHERN Ireland Squadron ship HMS Blackwater has been visited in Belfast by the Secretary of State for the Province, Sir Patrick Mayhew.

He met the ship's company and thanked them for their efforts as part of the Northern Ireland security forces. The Navy has maintained a presence in the Province throughout the troubles and has had an immeasurable deterrent effect on the movement of terrorists, their weapons and explosives by water.

As well as the ship's company, Sir Patrick met the Royal Marines detachment embarked to protect THE NARVIK Association the search teams that board everyhas been wound up after 26 thing from ferries to fishing vesyears with the retirement sels. through ill health of its Also on hand was Bruce, a founder member, secretary "sniffer" dog trained to detect and treasurer Mr Cyril Cope. explosives. He is embarked in Mr Cope set up the association Blackwater with his Army handler. in 1970 to mark the 30th anniverSir Patrick's last visit to the sary of the actions in April 1940 in Navy was made two years ago to which ten German destroyers HMS Redpole at sea. were sunk by the Royal Navy with the loss of HM ships Hardy and HOMES DEAL 'ONLY WAY' TO SPEND £100m ON IMPROVEMENTS Hunter.

Mr Cope was one of Hardy's ship's company who managed to swim ashore in the icy waters of Ofotfjord after the ship was destroyed.

All but 19 of Hardy's crew were saved but HMS Hunter was sunk in deeper water and more than 100 of her men perished.

Mr Cope has seen to it thai the men who lost their lives will be remembered by commissioning six benches with memorial plaques.

They will be presented to the Tri-Service Hospital at Haslar, Stonehouse Naval Ward at Derriford, and general hospitals at Gillingham and Exeter for the REASSURANCES that change in day-to-day dealings with maintenance of the estate, as well landlord's right to gain vacant pos- benefit of patients. session of sites at the 25-year lease as a better service for occupants. there is no "hidden agen- occupants.

There was no "hidden agenda" renewal point. The new condition, Following statements by da" over the proposed Defence Procurement Minister Mr to discourage families to live in in addition to other safeguards, sale of married quarters James Arbuthnot to the House of MQs, and increased charges were gives Ministers the right to veto a landlord's option of redevelophave been given by Commons Defence Committee, a not linked to the sale. signal has been released They had been recommended by ment.

Defence Ministers in a general pointing out that sale of the mar- the AFPRB and based on compamove to dispel unease ried quarters estate is the only way rability with those paid by civilians Staffs involved among Service families. that £100 million can be spent on - but abated to recognise the On the site exchange option, job A REPLICA of a folding kayak of upgrading most of the properties restrictions imposed on Service With final offers due at the vacancy rates in the travel-to-work the type used by the "Cockleshell personnel. end of July, Ministers have re- to top-grade condition. area form an additional criterion Heroes" has been built at HMS Air Marshal Squire said the sale for comparability. stated that the sale will mean Efficiency Sultan for a museum in Bordeaux. will not increase mixed sites as the no change in entitlement.

The Cockle Mk II folboat will The signal, from the Deputy DHE and the Services have agreed In his statements to the take its place in an exhibition in There will be no change in the Chief of the Defence Staff guidelines for any disposal, which Commons committee, Mr the Conservatoire International way charges are independently rec- (Programmes and Personnel), Air would result in houses being Arbuthnot emphasised that safede la Plaisance, a museum of sailommended by the Armed Forces Marshal Peter Squire, says the released as far as possible in "dis- guarding Service interests was cening in the French port which was Pay Review Body, no change in the Defence Housing Executive is crete blocks". tral to the sale and Ministers had the destination of the ten Royal Ministry's responsibility for main- expected to achieve significantly Introduction of a new clause developed the proposals with the Marines who paddled up the tenance and management, and no more efficient management and seeks to allay concern over the full involvement of Service staffs.

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Cockleshell kayak goes on display

271 for second engagements OVER 270 selections for Second Open Engagement have been made this year. The 271 selections represented an increase of 56 over the selections made last December.

Due to differing manning circumstances in each branch, the number of selections were high in some areas and low or at zero in others.

Return of Beagle and Cattistock THE SURVEY ship HMS Beagle and the minehunter HMS Cattistock have returned to the Fleet after months in refit.

Both ships have been rededicated - Beagle at Devonport and Cattistock at Portsmouth.

Guest of honour at the Devonport ceremony was Rear Admiral Steve Ritchie, former Hydrographer of the Navy, and the rededication cake was cut by Mrs Cheryl Main, wife of the commanding officer, Lt Cdr Mike Main. She was helped by the youngest rating on board, AB Ryan Jackson (21).

At Cattistock's rededication guest of honour was the Deputy Commander Fleet, Vice Admiral Sir Jonathon Tod, the cake being cut by Lady Tod and OM(MW) Harvey.

Sea Hawk to fly again THIS vintage Hawker Sea Hawk, being restored by British Aerospace, will fly again this summer for the first time in seven years.

The jet, one of 400 which operated from Royal Navy carriers and shore bases in the 1950s, was transferred to the RN Historic Flight in 1982. It flew last in 1989.

• The Swordfish Heritage Trust, which supports the RN Historic Flight, is seeking swimmers to take part in its annual, fund-raising Swordfish Swim from Ryde on the Isle of Wight to Stokes Bay on the mainland on July 21.

For details and sponsorship form, write with an stamped, A4-size envelope to Chris Farmer, 16 Whitworth Close, Gosport, Hants PO12 3PF.

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Flight to save man delerious after 18 days adrift

Branch set to give its final instructions AFTER nearly 300 years, the Royal Navy's Instructor Branch will come to an end this month.

Following the work of the Officers' Study Group, the Navy decided to disband the branch which has its origins in the appointment of 'Schoolmasters' to teach navigation at the beginning of the 18th century - and rebrigade serving officers within the Seaman and Engineer branches.

From July 6 all serving Instructor Officers will be recategorised according to their skills.

Officers with Meteorology and Oceanography qualifications will join the Seaman branch as X(METOCs).

Double call out in the Caribbean

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TWICE in the space of five days HMS Fearless flew to the rescue of seamen casualties in the Caribbean.

They will pave the way for the development of a new specialisato be called the tion Hydro/METOC(X(HM)), bringing together the skills of the Hydrographic Officer and the METOC officer to form a warfare officer with all-round environmental skills.

Instructor Officers with training and information systems backgrounds will join the Engineer branch as Training Managers (E(TM)) or Information Systems Officers (E(IS) under separate career arrangements.

• See next month's issue for a special feature on the Instructor Branch's long history.

90 years on at Ganges OVER 1,000 former HMS Ganges boys held their 90th anniversary reunion at the legendary Ipswich training establishment, where they received a birthday telegram from the Prince of Wales.

Guests included Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin, the Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Mayors of Ipswich and Harwich and five former Captains of HMS Ganges.

A guard was provided by HMS Middleton.

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HMS Fearless in Exercise Purple Star (see pages 12 and 13).

Mission to Mallaig for Lindisfarne FORCE 10 gales kept HMS Lindisfarne out of Mallaig Harbour on the west coast of Scotland when she arrived to take part in the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen's 19th Gala Week-end.

The bad weather forced the cancellation of the Fishery Protection Vessel's planned cocktail party - but next day the winds died down and she was able to join the celebrations.

These included a lunch hosted by the Mallaig and North West Fishermen's Association, a trawler race, parade, craft fayre, soccer match, seafood supper and three church services.

Caring Last came a lunch hosted by Lindisfarne's CO, Lt Cdr Nick Murphy, with guests including the Princess of Wales' mother Mrs Frances Shand-Kydd; former Captains Fishery Protection Capts Roy Harding and Capt Nick Barker; Mission Superintendent Murray Campbell; and the present Commander Fishery Protection, Cdr Chris Lightfoot.

The Mission has been caring for fishermen, their families and communities for over a century and gives financial and practical help to shipwrecked, sick, distressed, disabled and retired as well as seagoing fishermen and their families.

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DURING National Spring Clean Week Northern Parade Junior School pupils were invited to help up HMS Nelson tidy under the watchful eye of Executive Officer Cdr John Wills. Since 1994 HMS Nelson has recycled 45 tons of waste.

The first call came after the 1,600 tonne Danish merchant vessel Elizabeth Boy alerted the US Coast Guard that it had recovered two people clinging to the wreckage of a speedboat c lose to Puerto Rico.

One was already dead and the other, Alexander Johnie from St Lucia, was suffering from severe dehydration after claiming he had been adrift for 18 days. Three others who had been in the boat were missing.

The Coast Guard contacted the amphibious assault ship which was 400 miles from the scene, having lately completed an exercise with US forces near the island of Vieques and on her way to another with the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps at Curacao.

She immediately headed towards the Elizabeth Boy and the Sea King was despatched at night at maximum range with the ship's doctor, Surg Cdr Adrian Baker, who was winched down to stabilise the critically ill man's condition.

He was said to be delirious after drinking sea water.

The Sea King then flew back to HMS Fearless to refuel and took Mr Johnie on to hospital at Curacao.

The ship,s commanding officer Capt Rory McLean told Navy News: "Fearless's deployment in the Caribbean is going extremely well. The search and rescue operation is a task that was given to us, but it is a task that any operational ship might be given.

"The patient is now in the right place and is alive and stable."

Five days later the Sea King was called again, this time to ferry a badly injured seaman from the MV Lee Francis to hospital at Trinidad.

He was found to have been hit by a flailing wire and had cuts to his wrists and abdomen.

• See also pages 12,13 and 21.

Heron's new A NEW £4m Food Service Complex at HMS Heron has been opened by Rear Nicholas Admiral Wilkinson, Chief Naval Supply Officer.

It replaces the 56-yearold wartime junior ratings galley and dining hall and includes a combined Warrant Officer and Senior Ratings mess to replace the old CPO and PO messes.

The VIP buffet was prepared and served by WCK Chrissy Harrison, 1995 Young Cook of the Year at the Portsmouth Salon Culinaire competition.

Clyde puts safety first NAVAL Technical Department at Clyde Naval Base has won the British Safety Council National Safety Award.

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848 Naval Air Squadron at Yeovilton was visited by former members of 848 Sqn of the 1952 Malayan Emergency Formation, the RN's first operational helicopter squadron then the only troop lifting unit in the Malayan theatre which established the present day 'Junglies' ethos.

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MEMBERS of the Rolls Royce Enthusiasts Club brought 15 learning Rollers to RN Air tation Culdrose - where the Sea King helicopters and Hawk jets are also RR-powered.

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New Guzz museum holds an 'at home' PLYMOUTH Naval Base Museum reopens on July 27 for a special open day for its newly formed Society of Friends..

The premises have been temporarily extended to accommodate a mass of newly acquired artefacts following the recent spate of closures of Service establishments in the area.

A Naval Base Museum Trust plans to develop the museum for full public access, hoping it may be rehoused in one of the larger historic buildings in South Yard.

Meanwhile a series of books on the naval heritage of the West Country and Devonport Dockyard by one of the Friends' early volunteers, former shipwright/draughtsman Andy Endacott.now the museum's honorary historian, has been reprinted.

• For further information contact Cdr C.W.Crichton, tel 01752 555914.

Next stage for coach cards NATIONAL Express Coaches have agreed to continue the HM Forces Coach Card Scheme.

New cards are valid until 31 March 1999 and ships and units can demand revalidation stickers from CSE Llangennech using MOD Form 999.

a a Q A REPLICA uniform of Lord Nelson, with shirt based on his effigy in Westminster Abbey and including mis monogrammed laundry mark and specially altered right hand sleeve, went on display in HMS Victory last month.

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'SEA SOLDIERS', an exhibition of pastels and drawings by Keith Holmes based on a year spent with the Royal Marines, will run at the Royal College of Pathologists, 2 Carlton House Terrace, London until 27 September.

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MEMBERS of the Russian Convoy Club vsiiting HMS Drake were shown the font in St Nicholas Church donated by the Arctic Campaign Memorial Trust in 1994.

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NEWLY modernised Practical Maintenance Platform at HMS Sultan, the RN's marine engineering school at Gosport was reopened by Cdre Stephen Meyer, Director of Naval Plans and Programmes.

a a a 33 FIELD Hospital, RAMC has arrived at HMS Dolphin as the first of three new medical units to lodge on the Fort Blockhouse estate, to be followed by the Defence School of Health Studies and the Royal Defence Medical College.

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Drafty... the War Drafting Control Office

What happens if the balloon goes up?

A LESS well-known section of the Naval Drafting Organisation is that of the War Drafting Control Office.

This section is unique to the drafting organisation and is responsible for co-ordinating the allocation of RN active service and reservist rating manpower to crisis and war billets, as well as being responsible for administering all Royal Navy and Royal Marines ex-regular and other ranks of the RFR and the Pensioner Reserve. the MACC of the Manpower The majority of Service personControl Establishment which, gennel have little knowledge of how the transition from normal 'peace erally speaking, will be one of the time' operations to a 'crisis situalarger shore establishments. If you tion' would affect them, hut a great are a dual draftee you should have deal of detailed planning goes on been informed of it but, if you have heard nothing, then you can prein the WDCO section, identifying sume no news is good news. square pegs for square holes.

Nowadays, the emphasis is on out-of-area crisis planning such as Exercises the Bosnia operation, as the likelihood of a full war breaking out at In October last year, NDD was short notice is considered to be involved in the the Navy's first low. major manpower redeployment exercises since 1989. The twoweek exercise tested the Crisis Crisis Operational Drafting System and Dual Drafts are issued to fill the has helped us to enhance some of Crisis or War billets which, because our procedures. of the need for some pre-training As you read this, NDD is or special qualification, need suitengaged with 2SL/CNH able active service ratings preCINCFLEET and Chief of Fleet matched to them in peacetime.

Support, in a follow-up exercise This pre-matching requires the (REGEN 96) which is being skills of the individual to meet the spread over six months in order to requirements of the task, ideally conduct a 'real time' exercise. with no need for additional trainIt will be interesting to see the ing, although occasionally some final analysis and, from lessons may be necessary. Pre-matching is learned, how we can enhance our carried out continuously and procedures further. selected individuals are notified via

SHIP OF THE MONTH POSTCARD SUBSCRIPTION Build an exciting and interesting collection of photographs of ships of the Royal Navy THE FEATURED VESSEL FOR JUNE WILL BE HMS ARUN, A RIVER CLASS VESSEL OF THE NORTHERN IRELAND SQUADRON

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The Reserves The ex-regular reserves are made up of the Royal Fleet Reserve and the Pensioner Reserve and should not be confused with the Royal Naval Reserve which is administered by the Director of Naval Reserves (DNRes) from Victory Building in Portsmouth Naval Base.

Under existing legislation, ratings leaving the Service having served less than 22 years have a three year liability for RFR service, while those leaving on pension will be liable up to the age of 55. These rules apply to those leaving the Service on redundancy.

Females and QARNNS personnel (male and female) are not, under current legislation, liable for reserve service but a new Reserve Forces Act, RFA 96, comes into effect from January 1, 1997 and will provide more flexibility for the use of reserves and make their role more relevant to today's needs.

Unlike the current legislation, the new act covers QARNNS and

females and will, for example, allow reserves to be used for UN peace keeping operations.

Under the new legislation, , all regular ratings who join the Navy after January 1, 1997 (whether as pensioners or not) will have a Royal Fleet Reserve liability of a straight six years.

The opportunity will exist, however, for those reservists who were in the Navy before January 1997 to elect irrevocably to accept the reserve liabilities under the new legislation.

RFA 96 will provide a number of new types of reserve service, to enable the RFR and RNR to be called out on a voluntary basis, either full-time or part-time, depending on Service requirements.

In each case, a formal agreement will be made between the RN and the reservist concerned. If and when these requirements arise, reservists will be 'trawled' for volunteers but, at this stage, the detailed requirement has yet to be defined.

The War Drafting Team The War Drafting Control Office staff, with their Centurion telephone extension numbers are: WDCO AND REGISTRAR OF RESERVES: Lt Cdr Nigel Parry 2384 ASSISTANT WDCO/OFFICE MANAGER: POWTR Trevor Jackson 2105 OFFICE WRITER: WTR Richard Briggs 2485 RESERVES ADMINISTRATION RN Pensioners:

Mrs Pauline Bennett 2046

RN RFR (A-K):

Mrs Mary Parry 2253

RN RFR (L-Z):

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RM RFR/Pensioners:

Mrs Gail Brooker 2513

RFR Annual Reporting: Mr Ron Harley 2252

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Commodore Philip Masterton-Smith, who has assumed administrative control of all 14 URNUs, at the helm of Nothumbria URNU's P2000 fast patrol vessel HMS Example.

Two URNU P2000 fast patrol boats, HMS Example and Explorer visited BRNC to mark the handover to Commodore Philip MastertonSmith.

The college is the cradle of all naval officers and links between Britannia and the URNUs are already well established.

They regularly visit the College in the summer months to use its facilities and for a 'taster' of life at BRNC as a young officer.

Six new URNUs have recently been created and all units are providing high quality recruits for the Royal Navy. .

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IN HER decade of service HMS Arun has proved her versatility time and again.

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Built by Richards Ltd, she was originally intended for use by Sussex Division RNR as a minesweeper and served in that role for eight years.

In 1994 she had all her sweep gear removed

by Bolstons, of Poole, to make way for the boat group she now carries.

Accepted on May 25, 1994, she was recommissioned into the Northern Ireland Squadron, for which she carries out a wide variety of tasks in support of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

• Pennant no: M2014.

• Laid down: 1984.

• Launched:1984.

• Commissioned: RNR 1986; RN 1994.

• Dimensions: Length: 47.6m.

Beam: 10.5m.

Draught: 3.4m.

Displacement: 566 tonnes.

• Speed: 12.5 knots.

Weapons: Bofors 40/60; 4 x 7.62mm GPMG mounts.

• Boat group: two Seariders or two Pacifies, one Arctic and one Rigid Raider.

• Ship's company: five officers, five senior rates and 21 junior rates. Up to 12 Royal Marines can also be carried for operations.

Varied role It is a role she varies with attachments to the Fishery Protection Squadron. HMS Arun has just begun a period of fishery protection duties, during which she will help to enforce British and European Community fishing legislation around the United Kingdom.

She will remain so engaged - the majority of her time spent off the east coast, - until October, when she is scheduled to resume operations in and around the coast of the Province of Northern Ireland.

Her tasks there include working with the Royal Marines and units of the RAF and Army in counterterrorist operations in support of the RUC. HMS Arun has also worked in support of the Coastguard in numerous exercises and several real search and rescue operations.

Powered by two diesel engines that produce 1,520 brake horsepower through two controlled-pitch propellers, HMS Arun can spend anything up to three weeks at sea and on task without jetty support.

High profile In her time off task, the ship has played a full part in community relations in the Province, with highprofile visits to Carrickfergus and Bangor and affiliations to three Ulster Sea Cadet Units.

HMS Arun is also affiliated to Littlehampton in Sussex and holds the Freedom of the town. But she has not managed a visit there in the past few years.

It is hoped, however, to put matters right this summer, when a visit is scheduled for the end of July, duties allowing.

In the meantime the ship has been raising money for charity. Several hundred pounds were raised through a triathlon involving several members of the ship's company. This took place on the Isle of Arran in the Clyde while the ship was visiting Brodick, the island's "capital".

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Versatile: HMS Arun divides her time between fishery protection duties and operations with the Northern Ireland Squadron

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Three hundred pounds was subsequently presented to CLIC, the Bristol-based charity helping children with leukaemia and cancer, during a visit to the city.

Predecessor was first ocean-going destroyer ONLY predecessor in the name HMS Arun was a 550-ton torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1903 by Laird Brothers at Birkenhead and accepted into the Royal Navy the following year.

The River class to which she belonged was the first true ocean-going destroyer class, designed to accompany the Fleet in all weathers and with much-improved radius of action and accommodation standards. Their maximum speed (25-26 knots) was less than that of the previous smaller TBDs but it could be sustained in quite heavy seas, in which the "30-knotters were unable to operate at all.

Allocated to the Devonport class vessels headed home, the Portsmouth Escort Flotilla of the Home Fleet, arriving In April 1906. The Flotilla.

HMS Arun's first command- extended tour had been a She sailed with her first ing officer was Cdr R.Y. complete success and vindi- Expeditionary Force convoy Tyrwhitt. In August 1904, tak- cated the destroyers' design, the day after arriving in ing part in the annual Fleet which had been much criti- Portsmouth and remained manoeuvres, the Arun cised on grounds of cost - extremely busy, plying rammed and sank the smaller £70,000 each. across the Channel and sailHMS Decoy, fortunately withCruisers had accompanied ing for local patrols off the out loss of life. them on the longer ocean Isle of Wight.

The accident had no passages to provide coal, but She was attacked once adverse effect on the career the destroyers had shown July 10,1915 • when she was of the CO, however. He went themselves to be mechani- narrowly missed by a submaon to become a knighted cally reliable and able to rine torpedo, but otherwise admiral! weather a typhoon. did not encounter the enemy In 1905, with the Russothroughout the war, despite Grand Fleet Japanese War still in her high usage. She was progress, Arun was one of Over the next eight years twice involved in collisions, six "Rivers" deployed to the Arun served with the Home firstly being struck by a merFar East. She arrived at the Fleet at Devonport and with chant ship and secondly colFleet's summer anchorage at the 9th Destroyer Flotilla at liding heavily with the harWei-hai-Wei off northern Chatham. In July 1914 she bour at Le Havre. That time, China four weeks after the was attached to the Grand when she returned to service Russian defeat at Tsu-Shima. Fleet and based at it was with a new CO. An Anglo-Japanese treaty Invergordon for local defence In October 1917 Arun was was signed in the August and duties. temporarily detached to the towards the end of the year She remained there after Humber to escort East Coast the Fleet visited various the outbreak of war, under- convoys as far as the Japanese ports, Arun accom- taking patrols and escorting Shetlands, but she returned panying the flagship to Kobe major warships and auxil- to Portsmouth the following and Nagasaki. iaries between Cromarty and January. She paid off early in After three months based Scapa Flow until March 1915, 1919 and was sold for breakin Hong Kong, the six River- when she was reallocated to ing up in 1920.

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Uniforms where the US do best at the business end

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I WAS interested to read about the latest redesign of uniforms and how practical they would be using modern materials.

However, no mention was made of the officer's cap which, although practical in overall design, becomes ununiform with wear.

Letters League's apart IN 1992 you published a letter from me as part of a campaign to have the sport Rugby League recognised and approved as an official sport in the Armed Forces.

Since then, thanks to pressure from various quarters, Rugby League has been added to the list - indeed the Army and RAF have just played their fourth inter-services championship.

The sport is booming at all levels in the Army and RAF, so what about the RN? - D.Rawson, Hull.

Lt Cdr Clive Lambshead, secretary of RN Rugby, replies: Rugby League has never been debarred by the RN. If there is sufficient demand for any sport it will be played in the Service, but at present there is not enough demand for teams to be formed to play League matches.

"There is no prejudice against League. In fact, members of the RN have never been barred from playing under both Union and League codes, and there have been cases of individuals playing Union in the Service and playing for League teams outside.

They may be paid as members of a League side, but are barred from signing contracts."

Phoenix in disguise THE PERISCOPE photograph taken by HMS Sceptre (April issue) was in fact of the brigantine "Phoenix" in the guise of the Santa Maria, not the Golden Hinde.

Built in Denmark in 1929 as a seagoing mission ship and later used in the North Atlantic and Greenland trade, she ended up in Miami in 1984, where she was purchased in a sinking condition by Square Sail of Bristol in 1988.

She was converted at Bristol in 1991 for the film "1492: Conquest of Paradise", which involved her in a round voyage of 13,000 miles most of it under power as she did not sail so well under her film rig.

- I.Butler, Stapleford.

Sad memories of a child who survived a U-boat strike "CHILDHOOD on the Home Front" (May issue) mentioning the attack on the SS Volendam brought back sad memories.

Two of the children who survived the torpedoeing of this ship, Michael Brooker of Bromley and Patricia Allen of Liverpool, later sailed in the City of Benares and were both lost when she was torpedoed on the night of 17 September 1940.

I was one of the fortunate few who survived. I was 14. My London "Sea-Vac" friend Bess Walder (later to become my sister-in-law) and I were rescued from an upturned lifeboat later the following day

by HMS Hurricane, a destroyer attached to the 9th Flotilla at Liverpool.

We still keep in touch with surviving members of her crew - they were absolutely wonderful.

Because of the tragic circumstances of the sinking my mother did not receive a telegram. Ninety children had sailed under the Children's Ovberseas Reception Board scheme in the City of Benares and only 13 survived.

My mother received a visit from two Liverpool Education officials who advised her that I had "suffered an accident and was in hospital in Scotland".

They gave her a railway warrant

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train to Glasgow, then to the hospital in Greenock.

Those two officials had to make eleven very different visits to parents that night - I was the only survivor of the twelve Liverpool children who sailed in the City of Benares. - B.Williams, Lancaster.

Stony over Portland REGARDING C.J.A.Cope's letter about the naming of the last three Type 23 frigates, Portland may be the name of an extinct dukedom - but it is also the name of an island and harbour which has served the Royal Navy well from at least 1845; is the location of the only VC ever awarded for an action in the UK (Jack Mantle's); and was until recently the base for what is probably the finest sea training organisation in the world.

The area has lost or is losing all its RN presence and Admiralty Research Establishments, to the sadness of ex matelots like myself - so don't begrudge us one snip's name, Mr Cope! - R.F.Eggleton, Weymouth.

Bond! on the beach ON A recent holiday trip to South Africa I visited Knysna, not far from the resort of Plettenberg Bay. Here I was intrigued to find a headstone on a neatly tended grave bearing a recently polished brass plaque inscribed with the name Bondi and, underneath, HMS Verbena.

I think that any surviving members of Verbena's ship's company would be pleased to know that Bondi's grave was still being cared for after so many years. A.M.Keane, Petersfield.

Bondi was a bulldog, the mascot of the 1915 sloop HMS Verbena assigned to the Africa Station. On 30 January 1931 she was at Knysna and when Bondi joined a party going ashore to decorate the town hall for a variety concert he collapsed and died of heatstroke. A wooden cross with a brass plaque was set up in his memory - lately replaced with a headstone by local residents Keith and Peter Ranger. - Ed.

ISTANBULWARK YOUR article about the old German warship Goeben (May issue) was very interesting. I was in Istanbul in 1938 and she was still there.

Then she belonged to the Turkish navy, re-named Yavuz and used as a training ship. She never again put to sea.

I was an OD in the destroyer HMS Zulu at the time this picture was taken. - A.Burgess, Bury, Lanes.

Yavuz remained on the Turkish navy's effective list until 1960.-Ed.

Some stick up at the back as much as they do at the front, others, particularly those worn by senior officers, look like bread boards with a rather deflated badge folded under the leading edge.

There does not seem to be any quality control with the badges themselves. Some are thin, some are fat. The crowns are either square cut at the top or pointed.

It pains me to say that the Americans seem to have got it right years ago with a hard wearing, well made "uniform" cap that looks businesslike.

Surely we can do better? I hope this is an opportunity that will not be missed, to come up with a better design for the world's best navy. - C.W.Childs, Haslemere.

IN THE Hobbs report on Naval Uniforms, the bit about trials to replace the gold in officers' lace and cap badges interested me greatly.

Over 20 years ago I personally designed a synthetic lace at the request, I think, of MOD at Colchester.

We produced hundreds of yards for tests which were a great success, but the project was blocked, we understood, by the upper echelons.

It was, however, adopted by many shipping lines and airlines.

We had previously been responsible for the 2 per cent plating on a cupro nickel base instead of the standard quality of two and a half per cent gold on a silver base which had been the spec for decades.

My company, Stephen Simpson Ltd (estd 1829) closed down about five years ago - there were no longer enough contracts for badges and lace. - L.Pickston, Preston.

AS AN impressionable teenager in the early 1960s I was much taken with the Artificer Apprentice recruiting pamphlet and was lucky enough to be selected.

Not only did the RN offer the best apprenticeship in the world but it also dressed you in a manner appropriate to your status and trained you in the leadership qualities required for the responsibilities borne on young shoulders.

Now, in the 1990s, HMS Fisgard, that foundation of tradition inbred into all Tiffies, has gone, along with the great training establishments, Caledonia, Condor etc.

Worst of all, you want to make apprentices wear square rig.

If it wants to lay claim to training the best apprentices, then the RN ought to think again and treat their future engineers with respect and keep them in the traditional

apprentice rig.

Caldicot, Gwent.

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THE day I'm happy about wearing the same rig as my female counterparts is the day hell freezes over. - AB(M) C.Butler, HMS Campbeltown. • See page 20 for Part 3 of Cdr David Hobbs' history of RN uniform.

Chop and change IN THE article "Gunnery in the sun for HMS Southampton" (May issue) mention is made of a CHOPS(M).

In my 31 years of service I have witnessed the transition from Chief GI to CPO(OPS)(M) to CPO(M) and thankfully will not see the next stage, CPO(AWW).

I have heard of CHOPS(WOOD), CHOPS(LOGS), CHOPS(MEAT) and, on a topical note,, CHOPS(ONE-OFF) but have never seen them printed in your paper, nor would I expect them to be.

I inwardly cringed whenever I was called CHOPS and was pleased to see the (OPS) dropped and enjoyed being called (a more acceptable) CHIEF. I'm sure CPO(M) Kid Jensen would agree.

CHOPS(M) never was a proper rate and I, for one, was glad to see this one get the chop! - WO(M) M.J.Smith, HMS Cambridge.

25 year pay off AFTER 25 years in the Mob I have seen a lot of people seen off for what should be an entitlement in their final year.

While I appreciate Drafty will do his best, a person's final year is all important for obvious reasons and should not be left to chance.

My final year consisted of a six month ERP activation in Hong Kong - on the face of it, excellent, and I was consoled by the fact that I was going back to Rosyth where I settled many years ago.

Not so - new draft chit, new billet down in Wiltshire 450 miles away.

The answer to my Representation was that I had been very lucky in the past, there were no jobs available up north and I was the only POWEM(R) available in the Fleet to fill the billet.

I have travelled about 10,000 miles since January at great cost to the RN. The possible solution is to guarantee a person completing pensionable engagement a six month draft as an additional, if necessary to the area of his resettlement.. - K.P.Hill, Kelty, Fife.

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Decline and fall of Daniel, VC

I WAS interested to read R.Thomson's letter (May issue) about his local hostelry being renamed to honour Sir William Peel, VC.

LIGHTER TOUCH YOUR piece about the first jet landing on an aircraft carrier, HMS Ocean, reminded me that I had a photograph of Army Austers landing on her a little while later, in October 1947, which was a scene more reminiscent of World War I days.

We were on Palestine Patrol off Haifa when it happened. The Auster pilots did a few dummy runs to get used to the action of the Bats - and as soon as they touched down the Aircraft Handlers had to rush out and hold them down as they were so light, - R.S.Beech, Horncastle.

Don't shell out for any baby tortoises I WAS interested in Admiral Sir William O'Brien's letter in the June issue concerning Jonathan the giant tortoise of St Helena.

I expect it will come as some disappointment, but I must tell you that Aldabran giant tortoises (such as Jonathan) show little breeding activity in captivity.

Although they will mate regularly, they almost never seem to lay eggs.

So although Jonathan's life may be happier in the company of a young lady giant tortoise, I do not think the Governor should invest in an incubator.

With our very best wishes to the Royal Navy. - Wing Cdr P.P. Langton, Chairman, the British Chelonia Group, Exmouth.

Forester's new friends AS A result of an advert in your excellent paper several members of the HMS Forester Association are in contact with survivors of U845 which we sank in the Atlantic on 10 March 1944.

One of them, Hermann Frubrich, is writing a history of the boat from the day of its launch to the day HMS Forester landed the survivors at Londonderry. C.Parsons, Pulborough

Incidentally, Peel was not the second but the fourth naval VC, the second and third awards being made to Lt John Bythesea and Stoker William Johnstone, both of HMS Arrogant for daringly intercepting dispatches from the Tsar on Wardo Island in the Baltic in August 1854.

However, what is remarkable about Peel's exploits is that he was accompanied in all three actions which earned him the VC by his ADC, Mid Edward St John Daniel, who was similarly decorated for his part in the proceedings.

He later served with distinction, again with Peel, during the Indian Mutiny in 1858.

Whilst in India, Peel was wounded, contracted smallpox and died in Cawnpore at the age of 33.

His death seems to have had a disastrous effect on Daniel.

Although promoted Lieutenant and serving in HMS Wasp, his career was set to nosedive as he began drinking heavily and he was severely reprimanded for being twice absent without leave in I860.

Later that year he was court martialled for drunkenness and failing to turn out for his middle watch, was dismissed his ship and suffered loss of seniority.

The following year when on loan to the steam vessel HMS Victor Emanuel in the Mediterranean, he was again in trouble for "taking indecent liberties with four subordinate officers".

Rather than await the inevitable court martial, Daniel absconded when the ship was in Corfu and he was listed as a deserter.

Queen Victoria was not amused and issued a Royal Warrant causing him to forfeit his VC - and he was the first person to be erased from the VC roll.

In 1863 he surfaced in Melbourne and enlisted for three years in the Army as a Private for service in the Maori wars which led him to New Zealand where he eventually settled and became a member of the Armed Constabulary Field Force.

His drinking eventually took its toll and he died in hospital on 20 May, 1868, cause of death being recorded as "delerium tremens".

Over 50 years later, in 1920, his name was restored to the VC Roll

by King George V, who firmly believed that no-one should suffer forfeiture of the medal, regardless of their behaviour susbsequent to the award.

In contrast to the recognition shown to Peel, the final resting place of Daniel was reported some

time ago to be an unmarked grave overgrown with brambles and weeds in Hokitika Municipal Cemetary, West Canterbury, South Island, NZ. - CPO R.K.Bradley, Armed Forces Careers Office, Gloucester.

Seen off by the Major THE LETTER from the son of Maj Harry Fleming (March issue) revived memories for me, for I was one of his recruits.

It was in February 1931 that I travelled to Cambridge from my village of Littleport to join the RN as a stoker..

I found the Major very kind and considerate during the examination - but it was not until June 8 that I caught the train to London, Whitehall. He was there at Cambridge station with another recruit, Ernie Hicks, to see us off.

- H.Fletcher, Sheerness.

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In the footsteps of Lawrence BRAVING some of the most barren and isolated desert terrain in the world, four Royal Navy personnel took a step back in time to trace part of the route of the Turkishbuilt railway devastated by Lawrence of Arabia.

Led by Lt Cdr Larry Young, the small RN team followed I6()kms of the disused Hejaz railway from Mada'in Salih to Medina in Saudi Arabia. The railway never recovered after World War I and has lain disused since the 1920s.

The trip involved off-road driving over sand dunes and volcanic rock. Four nights were spent under canvas and several climbs were made in the hills and mountains which rise to over 1,800 metres.

Lt Cdr Young, an experienced Scottish mountaineer, said temperatures of 40C made heat exhaustion and dehydration the main hazards - quiter different to those he encounters in Scotland.

The four took the opportunity to make the expedition while working with the Al Yamama project involving the sale of three Sandown-class minehunters to the Saudi navy.

Sherene wows the Yanks IT WAS not only the Royal Marines who were impressed

by Miss Globe and Laurel when she visited members of the Corps and Royal Navy personnel on Diego Garcia.

WO2 Chris Townsend, reported that members of the US Marine Corps on the tiny Indian Ocean island were so taken with Sherene Fogg that they asked how they could join the British outfit.

Sherene is pictured with Mne Cal Callaghan of the British Indian Ocean Territories customs organisation.

Heraldry adviser resigns THE ROYAL Navy's Adviser on Naval Heraldry has resigned due to ill-health. Sir Walter Verco (89), Surrey Herald of Arms, had held his Naval appointment for 25 years.

The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Jock Slater, said of Sir Peter: "Over his 25 years of service he has contributed much to our badges and names business by bringing together his knowledge of heraldry along with a distinct sense of history and awareness of Naval tradition. " . . . I believe his designs, which stand out for their aptness, clarity and use of colour, now grace more than 70 of our warships."

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A HELICOPTER pilot who saw action in the Falklands War has chalked up his 5,000th flying hour.

Lt Cdr Wolfie Wolstenholme (right) is now serving as a detachment commander with 819 Naval Air Squadron at HMS Gannet. But in 1982 he flew with 825 and 826 Squadrons, taking part in the Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram rescue operation.

After qualifying as an instructor in 1985, he flew for a

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Lt Gen Sir Robert Ross received the award from Defence State Secretary Gmelich Meijling in a ceremony on board the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible in Amsterdam.

The presentation coincided with one of honorary CBE to the commander of the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps, Maj Gen Spiekerman van Weezelenburg. His award was presented by the British Ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir David Miers.

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Dicky is top of the class HMS Triumph engineer S/Lt Dicky Peace has won the British Aerospace Sword for the SD officer judged to have achieved the best overall leadership, academic and professional results after post promotion training.

He excelled on both his Nuclear Preparatory and Nuclear Reactor courses coming first out of 21 and gaining a recommendation for further academic training.

Dicky, who joined the Navy in 1981 as an Electrical Apprentice, was presented with the Sword by BAe Director Mrs Rebecca Elliott during ceremonial divisions at HMS Sultan, paraded before Vice Admiral JR Brickstocke, Flag Officer Surface Flotilla.

Female XO for HMS Excellent COMMANDER Maggie Bobbins has become the Royal Navy's first female Executive Officer and has taken up her appointment at HMS Excellent.

She takes charge of HMS Exccllent's wide range of activities which include four training schools and 13 tenant units within the Whale Island establishment.

Cdr Robbins takes over the administration and day-to-day running of the establishment at a time of great change, and as President of the Wardroom Mess, she looks forward to its full utilisation after a two-year refurbishment.

Womens' issues She takes up her appointment after serving in the Directorate of Naval Service Conditions in Victory Building, Portsmouth Naval Base, where she took responsibility for women's issues.

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Manadon medals FIVE men who clocked-up 174 years service at the former RN Engineering College at Manadon have been awarded Imperial Service Medals by the Queen.

Ronald Barham, David Miller, Edward Bolt, Allan Evans and Donald Rolling were presented with the awards by Cdr John Prescott, QIC of Manadon.

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Cdr Robbins, who's family home is in Clanfield, Hampshire, has served in the Royal Navy for more than 20 years.

His work earned him the termly efficiency prize from Captain Roger Parker of HMS Excellent.

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Radiation dose level 'trigger' is halved THE MINISTRY of Defence is moving ahead of likely legislation by cutting by more than half the radiation dose level which triggers a mandatory initial investigation to check that all reasonable steps are being taken to keep exposure to a minimum.

From this year onwards the dose is reduced from 15 milliSieverts to 6 mSv, although MOD stresses that the figure is an investigation level, not a dose limit.

For comparison, it is generally accepted that in this country the natural radiation dose for each person is about 2 mSv per year from natural sources.

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NEW ADVICE on heat illness has been released to the Armed Forces in a bid to reduce the number of Service personnel who fall victim to the condition.

Each year about 135 Service people are admitted to hospital suffering from some kind of heat illness ranging in severity from recovery following fluid replacement, to death.

Overseas dental charges FAMILIES of Armed Forces personnel serving overseas now have to pay for dental care. Since June 1 they have had to face charges at National Health rates for treatment in Service dental units and in civilian practices in regions without Service facilities.

Apart from the normal NHS exemptions, the dependants of personnel in Hong Kong will continue to receive free treatment due to the circumstances of the draw-down. DCI GEN 143

But Ministry of Defence medical experts say the majority of heat casualties could be prevented if commanders at all levels had a greater awareness of the risk and of correct first-aid measures.

Heat illness is a recognised hazard of military training through a combination of the intensity of physical activity, high environmental heat and the wearing of protective clothing.

Personnel are at particular risk if they are obese, lack physical fitness, have recently drunk alcohol, have a mild illness or are taking prescribed - or other - drugs.

Commanders are advised not to push on those who are overweight or unfit and who are finding the going too much. It has been found that recruits who take more than 12 minutes to complete the Basic Fitness Test are three times more likely to become heat casualties than those who take ten minutes.

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The main cause of Service heat casualties in Britain is forced marching, especially the Combat Fitness Test - and the wearing of helmets and body armour significantly increases heat stress.

Supervised drinking is the most important preventive measure and troops continually exposed to a hot environment should be advised to drink enough water to ensure that their urine remains colourless.

When personnel show signs of heat illness - including dizziness, vomiting and disturbed vision - the training activity under way should be stopped tor all those involved, and the casualty should be given the correct first-aid and evacuated to medical care as quickly as possible.

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DEVELOPMENT of software to enhance the production of sea, swell and surf forecasts has won a £100 prize for Lt Colin Manson.

The award, the Boyle Somerville Memorial Prize, was established in 1937 in memory of a rear admiral and encourages research and development in connection with the sciences of meteorology and oceanography.

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Errors Two cases are cited in which errors of judgment took place: During an escape and evasion exercise in a mountainous area in summer, personnel were told to find their own water from streams in the hills - but the hot weather had dried up the streams. Ten members of the group were admitted to hospital.

In the other case, a platoon commander complained to his superior that his troops were unlikely to meet a rendezvous with a landing craft as the heat was affecting their speed of march. The request to reschedule the rendezvous was turned down. The result: seven personnel needed treatment for heat illness and were withdrawn from the exercise.

However, as an example of success, experts cite the operations in the Gulf against Saddam Hussein where an effective and rigorous prevention programme meant that out of the many thousands of Service personnel deployed to the region, only four cases of heat illness were reported. DCI JS 59/96

Seaman age limits THE UPPER age limit for entry to the Seamanship Specialist subbranch has been abolished. The move takes into account the later age at which recruits can join and the time taken to complete source branch task books and examinations which are not relevant to the sub-specialisation.

However, a rating must have at least three years to serve after taking the Seaman Professional Qualifying Course. DCI RN 111/96

MEDIUM career commissions of 16 years have been introduced for Navy medical officers. Reason for the change is to maintain a viable and balanced medical service. The first boards to consider applications for transfer from a short career commission are convening this month.

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Video guide AN essential guide to practical training throughout the Navy has been produced by the Services Sound and Vision Corporation.

Entitled Training - A Formula for Success, the video has been made on behalf of the RN School of Educational and Training Technology. Units which have not received a copy should order direct from: Distribution Department, SSVC, Chalfont Gardens, Gerrards Cross, Bucks. SL9 8TN. DCI RN 84/96

HQ move THE RNR establishment HMS Scotia has moved following the closure of Maritime HQ Pitreavie, and is now at RN Support Establishment Caledonia, Rosyth.

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PERSONNEL who carry portable computer equipment abroad outside non-EC countries are advised to obtain an ATA Garnet - a Customs document which allows the temporary transportation into or through most major countries.

Garnets are issued by Chambers of Commerce at a fee of £164.50.

When equipment which has or will be used for classified work is intended to be taken abroad, the appropriate security authority must be consulted. If the material contains personal data which will be transferred to another system, the implications of the Data Protection Act should be considered.

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Portable trainer PORTABLE equipment is being introduced into Royal Navy frigates to improve training with towed sonar array.

The trainer, taking the form of a computer designed to connect to the ship's sonar system, provides inter-active tuition. It replaces the system of pre-recorded tapes which generate limited exercise scenarios.

As there are not enough trainers for every ship, they will be transferred from vessel to vessel on a priority basis. DCI RN 87/96 This regular feature gives general information about new Defence Council Instructions affecting conditions of service. If they apply to you, the full, original text should be studied.

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SERVICE personnel are invited to apply for places on two separate sail training expeditions to the Caribbean and Canary Islands.

The Joint Service Adventure Sail Training exercise Caribbean Wings begins in November. Places are offered in the 12-berth Nicholson 55 yacht HMSTC Lord Trenchard for one of the 11 legs of the trip. Each leg lasts from two to about three weeks until May 16.

The Nicholson yacht HMSTC Adventure leaves Gosport on August 27 for the first of 19 legs of Exercise Medchase in the Canaries.

The exercise ends in May next year.

Cost per person for the Caribbean exercise is £220-2850 depending on the leg chosen, and £165-£265 for Medchase. Novices are encouraged to apply.

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Pilgrimage blessed by sunshine DOZENS of handicapped children enjoyed a weeklong trip to Lourdes in France with the help of 47 volunteers from RN groups in Plymouth, Portsmouth and Scotland.

The trip marked the 40th birthday of the Handicapped Children's Pilgrimage Trust and was led by CPO Sue Roberts (Warrior) PO Gary Wright (MDHU Derriford) and LS Gwynne Malcolm (Renown).

The trip was blessed with superb weather and the children spent their time sightseeing, singing, picnicking and swimming.

Highlight The highlight of the trip was a 40th anniversary mass celebrated by Cardinal Basil Hume, six bishops, 150 priests and a congregation of over 5,000, recorded by the BBC. The organisation is always pleased to hear from serving members of the RN and RM who are prepared to invest a week of their time. Next year's pilgrimage is March 30 to April 6. For details, contact Lt Christine Mayoh on Centurion Building 2012.

Charity shoot bags £18,000

CLAY PIGEON enthusiasts had a smashing time at a Navy-run shoot near Guildford which raised £18,000 for the RN Benevolent Trust.

Working parties from HMS Nelson and HMS Ark Royal added a strong nautical flavour to the day, erecting a marquee, marshaling and counting hits in the 75-bird flush.

The event sawj 10 guns entered in 22 teams, with the Navy represented by a wide range of personnel including FOSNI, POST and FOSM and Leading Hands from HMS Liverpool. The clay pigeon shoot has become the largest single fund-raiser in the Royal Navy Benevolent Trust's calendar.

The winning team was from HMS Osprey, with Rolls Royce second and HMS Nelson third.

The shoot was held in Whithorn Farm at Wormley, by courtesy of Country Wide Special Events.

Anyone interested in next year's event should contact the shoot office, Hardy Block, HMS Nelson.

Chaplain shows others the way AS NAVY NEWS went to press HMS Collingwood's Chaplain, the Revd Mike Brotherton, was leading a team of 20 sailors on a 603 mile relay run.

Their route was to take them from HMS Collingwood in Fareham to Collingwood House in Northumberland and could raise up to £20,000 for KGFS and the Simon Weston Trust.

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With the help of staff from and the McDonalds Trengwreath School and Respite Centre, they collected more than £1,600 to pay for a computer to make communication easier.

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Sailors from HMS Somerset spent four days helping out at a children's centre in Taunton. The team converted a garage at the Trull Road Centre into a hobby room equipped with a photographic dark room and pottery, woodwork and model making areas.

HMS Somerset has invited children from the school to visit the ship in her home port of Plymouth after she is officially accepted by the Royal Navy.

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MOUNTAIN Leader Tony Boyle had a surprise in store for his father Peter on his 60th birthday.

Tony, a WO2 in the Royal Marines, was in charge of a charity abseil to raise cash for KGFS and Relate, and invited his dad to join the volunteers making the 140ft descent from Gloucester's Gloscat Tower.

Unforgettable Over 100 people were despatched from the rooftop by WO2 Boyle and members of RMR Bristol and more than £7,500 was raised. Peter said of the abseil: "It was an unforgettable experience!"

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Dizzy completed the marathon in just under five and a half hours and lost one and a half stone during the lead up to the run.

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Blazing away: 110 guns took part in the clay pigeon shoot which raised £18,000 for the RNBT. picture: FOSF Photographic Under the watchful eyes of Lympstone PTIs, the group got themselves and former patients from Trengwreath Hospital, Plymouth, through the course which includes mud trenches and flooded tunels and raised £300 in the process.

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Volunteers from HMS Invincible painted white lines, cycle lanes and zebra crossings on the playground of East Shore School in Portsmouth to help teach the children about roads and road safety.

The school for children with special needs is the ship's adopted charity and their next task will be to rebuild the play ship that is the central feature of the school's playground.

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Sailors in HMS Northumberland clocked up an incredible 339,624 metres during a sponsored 'rowathon' while on route to an informal visit to Rio. The event, organised by OM Jimmy Green, raised £580 to pay for a 14-year-old Spina Bifida sufferer to visit Lourdes.

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Families who move in to the Hardway Naval Estate at Rowner have a drop-in centre to get to know their neighbours thanks to Naval Community Worker Kevin Robbins.

With the help of student social worker Julie Richards and resident Zoe Hemming, the centre is being run from a disused married quarter at 28 Widgen Close and the centre is already open from 1pm to 2pm on Wednesdays.

Warfare Mechanics training in HMS Collingwood hiked 72 miles along the South Downs Way to raise money for the British Cot Death Society.

The walkers were divided into groups which each completed a 24-mile section of the route despite some very poor weather. Between them they raised £415 which will be used to buy equipment to monitor infant breathing.

SAILORS from HQ British Forces Gibraltar hot-footed it back to London to take part in this year's London Marathon.

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The event took place in scorching weather and turned out to be the hottest London Marathon ever with temperatures reaching 80 degrees Centigrade.

They were part of an 11strong team of Servicemen and civilians based in the British Forces HQ raising thousands of pounds for charities at home and abroad.

For the civilians it was a question or improving their times having competed in the London Marathon in previous years, but for the servicemen the challenge was to complete the distance.

But they all finished the race and the final times ranged respectably from 3 hours 15 to 4 hours 25.

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ADMIRAL'S VERDICT: 'YOU WERE MAGNIFICENT' EXERCISE Purple Star brought together more than 50,000 British and American servicemen and women in the largest mobilisation of Anglo-American forces since the Gulf War.

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For the Royal Navy's carrier group, Purple Star was their first real chance to engage in deep water exercises for three years after a long commitment in the which ended in February The British maritime task Adriatic this year. force of 30 ships led by HMS The Hunt class minehunters Illustrious included destroyers, Berkeley and Chiddingfold frigates, minesweepers, two HMS and the Sandowns Bridport and nuclear powered attack sub- Cromer were the smallest ships to marines and the assault ship cross the Atlantic to take part. For HMS Fearless. the Sandowns it was the first transMore than 2,300 Royal Marines Atlantic crossing and they all from 3 Commando Brigade joined played a vital part in the joint their US Marine Corps counter- forces exercise. parts in a mass assault on the Submarines beaches on the East Coast exercise area.

HM Submarines Trenchant and At Fort Bragg, 2,000 men from Splendid acted in direct support of 5 Airborne Brigade made the the task group, providing intellibiggest British parachute drop gence, warning of 'hostile operasince Arnhem alongsdc 4,000 men tions' and conducting simulated of the American 82nd Airborne attacks on opposing forces made up of RN and USN ships and subDivision. marines.

Vice Admiral Vern Clark USN directed exercise Purple Star from the 17,000 ton purpose-built command ship USS Mount Whitney.

At the end of the 25-day exercise he showed his admiration for the British ships and personnel who took part in a signal to all members of the task group.

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Above: On US Memorial Day Rear Admiral Alan West, CO of HMS Ardent during the Falklands War, laid a wreath to commemorate the t6th anniversary of the loss of the ship on May 21, 1982.

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THOUSANDS of New Yorkers lined banks of the Hudson River as HM ships Illustrious, Cumberland and Glasgow sailed to New York to help celebrate the United States Navy Fleet Week at the end of Purple Star.

The Royal Navy warships by the destroyer HMS were part of an armada of 19 Glasgow and the frigate HMS vessels from the USA, Canada Cumberland. and Mexico.

HMS Illustrious, Britain's As the ships sailed past the task group leader and .flagStatue of Liberty and came ship of Rear Admiral Alan into view from under the West, COMUKTG, brought up Verranzo Bridge on a blisterthe rear with the American ingly hot day the sky was 'supercarrier' USS John F buzzing with helicopters and Kennedy. low flying aircraft.

Amazing sight Heading the impressive line-up of ships was the USS The CO of HMS Illustrious, Arleigh Burke, a missile Capt Jonathan Band, said: "It destroyer of the American was an amazing sight sailing navy's newest class of ships into New York Harbour seeing and she was closely flanked the Manhattan skyline.

In Washington the ship's main duty was to support a defence industry day where British companies were showing off their expertise, particularly in the area of mine countermeasures, to American buyers.

The visit was a great chance for the ships' companies to get ashore and see some of the City's great sights including the Washington Monument, Capitol Hill, the Lincoln Memorial and the newly inaugurated Korean War Memorial.

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MCMV men at Capitol Hill (I to r) OM Alan Blakeley, LCK Steve Hinckley, AB Karl Hopkins (RNR HMS Cambria) MEM Phil Beesley and OM Ian Barton. "The trip of a lifetime" said AB Karl Hopkins.

They spent 18 days at sea on the flagship of Purple Star's overall Commander, Vice Admiral Vern Clark, making up the British contingent of the command and control team for the exercise .

While life at sea US-style was less of a novelty for the Royal Navy than the Army or the RAF, there were a few surprises.

Even taking into account the presence of 350 augmentees to the

ship's company, accommodation on board was spartan compared with RN ships.

But it was the food that attracted the most comment: "A choice of hamburger in lieu of hot dog soon began to lose its appeal" cairl said WWTR Jennie Catterall.

Despite some British hopes to the contrary, the ship also remained 'dry' for the entire seagoing period.

USS Mount Whitney received many VIP visitors during the exercise, including British and American Defence Secretaries William Perry and Michael Portillo, General John Sheehan, Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and CinC Fleet, Admiral Sir Peter Abbott.

Sailors from HMS Illustrious are cheered on as they march through New York's Bronx.

"The Royal Navy received a very warm welcome."

President Bill Clinton flew in to the City to officially launch Fleet Week and 300 sailors from the Royal Navy were on board the museum ship USS Intrepid to greet him.

The New York visit came as a welcome respite after the rigours of exercise Purple Star and plenty of activities had been arranged for the visitors as well as sight-seeing, including a Seaman's Olympics, tug-of-war, soccer and volleyball matches.

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THOUSANDS of New Yorkers lined banks of the Hudson River as H1M ships Illustrious, Cumberland and Glasgow sailed to New York to help celebrate the United States Navy Fleet Week at the end of Purple Star.

The Royal Navy worships the HMS destroyer by were parl of an armada 01 19 Glasgow and the frigate HMS vessels from the USA, Ca~ Cumberland. and Mexico.

HMS Illustrious, Britain's As the shi a sailed past the task up leader and AlagStatue of L Rear Admiral Alan 11f4rty and came ship 01 into view from under the Weal, COMI.III brought up Verranzo Bridge on a blisterthe rear with the American ingiy hat day the sky was 'supercarrier' USSJohn F Kennedy. buzzing with helicopters and low flying aircraft.

Arnazing sight Heading the impressive line-up of ships was the USS The CO of HMS Illustrious, Arleigh Burite. a missile Capt Jonathan Band, said: `it destroyer of the American was an amazt sight sailing navy's newest class of ships Into New Yorkildarbour seeing and she was closely flanked the Manhattan skyline.

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Above., On US Memorial Day Roar Admiral Alan West, CO of HMS Ardent during the Falklands War, laid a wreath to commemorate the ffith anniversary of the toss of the ship on May 21, 1982.

Life atsea,, US-style WHILE. the spollight during Pur le Star was focussed brijI on lhe carrier group, amphibious landings and mass arachute drops, some 70 UK ervice pc~nnel were working away behind the seencs on the USS Mount Whilney.

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'An entrance that'll make 'em sit up in their seats, I said - not empty them!

Ex-RN salvage team aims to raise 100 U-Boats

A talent to amuse THE ROYAL TOURNAMENT today is a blend of oddly juxtaposed high tech wizardry and traditional entertainment - such as the RN Field Gun competition, unchanged in its essentials since it began in 1907.

This year it is the Navy's turn to take the lead - and , increasingly, and despite the evermore ambitious special effects, it can hardly hope to give a realistic snapshot of the Navy's capabilities as a fighting force.

It doesn't need too.What it does do spectacularly well is to showcase the quality of the people who man it, to the enduring delight of the people who pay for it - the last Navy-led Tournament outsold Jurassic Park at the London box office.

In recent years the event has been under threat - not because of any waning of public support but because of the heavy demand it places on the Armed Forces' manpower, which has declined significantly in that period.(The decline in popularity of Navy Days has more to do with the reduced availability of ships to attend them).

There has been no corresponding decline in the Navy's in-house tradition of producing top class entertainers, however - as the hugely successful BBC documentary series 'HMS Brilliant' proved last year!

Jon Pertwee, who has died aged 76, was the embodiment of that tradition, one of the leading luminaries of the post war TV and radio comedy explosion.

An RNVR officer - he was appointed to HMS Hood, being returned to shore with 16 other lucky men shortly before she sailed to hunt the Bismarck - Pertwee ended up in the Navy's broadcasting section.Latterly better known as one of the most successful incarnations of Or Who - William Hartnell, renowned as the quintessential sergeant major of British film, was the first - Pertwee played an enormous range of characters in The Navy Lark, the BBC Radio comedy series that ran for a record 18 years between1959 and 1977.

This was an endlessly inventive lampoon of Navy life which the Navy took to its heart, even though - or perhaps because - the situations it portrayed were often uncomfortably close to the truth . . .

The Royal Marines' Beat Retreat to mark the Duke of Edinburgh's 75th birthday last month also enjoyed record ticket sales - another unlikely success, one might have supposed, in the light of the media's current concern to portray a society cynically disiluusioned with our national institutions.

It may be that the Senior Service's talent to amuse is one of its best assets, one that serves as an accessible and easily enjoyable reminder of its wider applications - and so one that may God preserve.

• Jon Pertwee, alias Cdr High-Price, downs his tot on board HMS Troubridge in 1969.

The Navy Lark's fictional HMS Troutbridge enjoyed a close and happy liaison with the Type 15 frigate the actor is seen here inside Cdr C.R.V.Doe's best uniform jacket, loaned for the occasion during her last visit to London before paying off.

QUOTE: "This is the largest and most complex show in the country, a show of skill, strength and teamwork in the biggest theatre in the world."

- Major Michael Parker, Producer, The Royal Tournament, HMS Gloucester, London, 18 June 1996.

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THE FIRST German Uboat to be salvaged from the Atlantic is due to be towed to Scotland in September.

Master Marine Salvage, backed by a consortium and operated virtually exclusively by former Royal Navy officers and ratings, hopes to raise more than 100 of the World War II submarines scuttled or sunk as targets by the Allies after the German surrender.

MMS, which was granted salvage rights by the Ministry of Defence last year, has made an underwater TV reconnaissance of the area about 30 miles off the coast of Northern Ireland. The Uboats they found appear to be reasonably intact and lying in water varying in depth from 40-60m.

"In August we will return with the intention, if everything goes to plan, of locating a well preserved Type VI 1C boat and then raising it," MMS's operations manager Jacqui Marshall told Navy News.

Heavy-lift Jacqui, who left the Navy as a lieutenant in December, is one of a small team at the nerve centre of the salvage company. Her Director is Mac Maclntyre, a former RN Commander, and MMS's ship manager is ex-CPO Alan Batt.

"We don't plan to raise any more of the boats this year," said Jacqui. "Our main aim is to test our procedures and get the operation up and running. Then, over the next five years we hope to salvage about 20 a year."

Operating from their base at Loch Swilly in Eire, the salvers will raise the first boat by conventional water displacement methods, but from next year the company hope to use a newly developed and more efficient heavy-lift system.

Their first "catch" will be taken into Cairnryan near Stranraer, and is destined to be broken up, pro-

• U-534 arrives on Merseyside the treaty governing the U-Boats viding the project with its first operating income of an estimated £400,000.

However, the company's willingness to provide intact boats for display in museums is dependent on US agreement. The surrendered U-boats were sunk in Operation Deadlight, covered by a treaty between Britain, America and the Soviet Union, which stipulated that the submarines could not be salvaged and left intact - an indication of the bitter and fearful nature of the U-boat war.

Now that the wrecked vessels are no possible threat, Britain and Russia do not object to salvage and

sunk in Danish waters before the war's end, she is not covered by scuttled in Operation Deadlight. display. But America has still not • One of the recipients of items given consent - though MMS are from the Atlantic boats is likely to negotiating with the US State be the RN Submarine Museum, Department and hope to obtain whose Director, Cdr Jeff Tall, is in their go-ahead by next year. touch with the salvage company.

Ironically, the intact wreck of UHis museum's experience in pre534, a Type IXC, arrived in the serving salvaged vessels, such as Mersey in May to become the first the Holland I submarine, is in preserved U-boat in Britain. Since international demand. she was salvaged in Danish waters Recently he has provided knowthree years ago she has been how to the Americans following acquired by the Warship Preservation Trust who intend to their location and proposed salput her on display at Birkenhead. vage of the Confederate manpowered submarine Hunley which sank Because the boat was sunk in in Charleston harbour in 1864 after action just before the European war ended she is not covered by a successful attack on a Federal the treaty. warship.

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Solo show of strength by Spartan HMS SPARTAN was heading home as Navy News went to press, at the end of a five month deployment to the Indian Ocean - once again showing the RN Submarine Service's capability to operate without support in places far from base port.

Lady Hunt back at the helm LADY MURIEL Hunt, who launched HMS Trenchant ten years ago, took a turn at the hydroplanes in the Plymouth areas when she revisited the nuclear powered submarine with her husband, Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt.

Port team get a bit of a lift

She sailed from Faslane on January 19, visiting Gibraltar, the Suez Canal and Diego Garcia during her transit south.

There followed seven weeks of independent exercises, rewarded with another week's stopover in Diego Garcia.

The nuclear powered Fleet submarine then headed north for a fortnight of exercises in the Persian Gulf - this time with the Type 22 frigate HMS Chatham, three US warships and an American submarine.

The joint venture gave both British units the chance to work with and against the Americans in anti submarine warfare exercises - and both

put in excellent performances that won praise from the US Commodore, although he was unimpressed when his ship was "sunk" twice...

In Diego Garcia the Spartan had also emerged victorious after challenging the US Navy to compete in a round of the Read Cup, an annual sailing competition between the two countries.

Dubai was the next port of call for the submarine, allowing an alongside maintenance period during which a number of wives and girlfriends flew out to sample the delights of wadi bashing and sand surfing.

Making her return via the Suez Canal again, and Toulon, the boat was due to have been away for 154 days.

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Talent for friendship HMS TALENT held Divisions in Devonport, providing the opportunity for a first visit by the Mayor of Shrewsbury, the submarine's affiliated town.

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.L.Wyllie RA is one of the Navy's most enduringly popular artists. It is easy to see why. Turner, a master of the effects of light on water, was his hero, but Wyllie eschewed the mystery and symbolism of Turner, concentrating on close attention to detail of ships and fittings to win the approbation of mariners who are, as Navy News knows only too well, the sternest of critics in these matters

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Best known today as the creator of the Trafalgar Panorama in the Royal Navy Museum - an enormous work he compled in nine months in his 80th year - he was also a keen observer of modern developments and his paintings and etchings of ships of the World War I period are as accurate and faithful a record as any of those he made of the ships of the days of sail.

This quality earned him the admiration of the men who worked on and in them and of the ordinary working waterman:"! have not seen many barges drawn except yours that are anything like barges," a Thames barge captain once wrote to him.

To this day, 65 years after his death , few artists have approached his appeal as a painter of either steel or wooden walls, or his romantic vision of both.

William Lionel Wyllie (pronounced "Why-leigh") was born in London in 1851 into an artistic family. His father was primarily a figure painter but also excelled at landscape subjects.

As a child he suffered from a bronchial condition and so in the summers the family removed to an old Napoleonic guard house at Wimereux near Boulogne to help his recovery.

At 12 he was accepted as an art student at Heatherly's in Maddox Street By the time he was 15 he had progressed to the Royal Academy Schools - and only two years later an oil, Dover Castle and Town, was accepted by the RA for its summer exhibition.

Two sons killed He first met his future wife, Marion Carew, at Boulogne in 1870 when she was ten years old.They were engaged when she was 16, married in 1879 - and remained devoted until his death over 50 years later.

They had seven children, five boys and two girls. Eva, the elder daughter, injured when dropped as a baby by her nurse, could neither walk nor talk. She died of influenza in 1912 - moments before her father returned from the chemist, shouldering a large cylinder of oxygen he had carried home a mile to aid her breathing.

All the boys served in World War I: Harold in the Royal Flying Corps (inspired by his career, Wyllie produced a number of excellent aviation studies); Bill as a regular in the Durham Light Infantry (he was killed at Montaubon on 19 July 1916); Bob with the London Scottish (killed at Messines on October 31, 1914); Dick in the RNVR; and Eric, too young to join up, as a despatch rider with the OTC. Marion visited the Western Front eleven times, taking supplies to areas where they were most needed.

Wyllie himself, after moving his family from Hoo Lodge, Rochester to Portsmouth in 1906 where he would spend the rest of his life at Tower House (next to the Round Tower in Capstan Square, it is still there as one of the most distinctive features of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour) retained his rank as a Captain in the Territorials, gained at Hoo, when he transferred to the Hampshire Fortress, Royal Engineers (T).

To his great vexation, he felt obliged to retire a few weeks before the outbreak of war - at 63, he realised he was standing in the way of a younger man's promotion.

WL.WYLLIE, RA The Portsmouth Years An exhibition at PortsmouthCity Museum

• Wyllie with his wife Marion on their golden wedding day at Tower House, 1929.

War artist Such was his reputation, he became, de facto, a war artist for the Navy, sailing with the Grand Fleet to gain authenticity for his work. Here he had a lucky escape.

While sketching aboard HMS Invincible in Portsmouth Harbour he was asked to join her and applied to the censor for permission. The paper work failed to arrive in time - and the Invincible was lost at Jutland with 1,025 officers and men. In 1920 he painted the subject, dedicating the work to the memory of her ship's company.

Wyllie was a keen sailor - and a highly skilled boat builder. As a schoolboy, Sir Hugh Casson met him in the last years of his life: "He designed (boats), cared for them, sailed them and above all he never ceased to draw them in every size and shape and in all weathers. He drew them as a seaman would... accurately, affectionately and above all with that deep practical understanding of the fact, born of experience, that seamanship is fun but it is also serious, for a human life can often depend upon the curve of a hull or the angle of a cleat."

At Baden Powell's request, Wyllie founded the 1st Portsmouth Sea Scouts, giving over a store at Tower House to the troop. He found a suitable cutter for them on The Hard and named it Lord Charles after his friend the local MP Lord Charles Beresford.

On summer evenings the boys would gather on the terrace outside his studio to dive, swim, row or sail on weekend expeditions. One later recalled: "We never knew where the Scouts began and the family ended."

A keen racing sailor until well into his seventies - Uffa Fox was a close friend the artist became Marine Painter to the Royal Victorian Yacht Club at Ryde and in 1920 was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Sailing Club. He became its Commodore, a post he held until his death.

Trafalgar panorama HMS Victory naturally became one of his favourite subjects and he was a key figure in the campaign to preserve her.

His superb etching Proclaiming our Sailor King is one of his best studies of Nelson's flagship, shown firing a salute together with the modern leviathans on the accession of King George V in 1910.

In that year a group of nautical enthusiasts met at the Royal United Services Institute. Wyllie was persuaded to take the chair and the meeting led to the formation of the Society for Nautical Research that urged the Admiralty to take steps for her docking and preservation - a process that continues to this day.

The culmination of Wyllie's efforts in the project was his Trafalgar Panorama, offered by him as a gift. He regarded it as the summation of his life's work - and it took him most of the 80th year of his life to complete.

The main action shows HMS Victory firing into the battered stern quarters of the Spanish Santissima Trinidad. The technical details are, as usual, accurate - but for one deliberate mistake. Wyllie had the masts of the Spanish ship fall five minutes earlier than actually happened so that viewers of the huge 42ft X 12 ft painting (it is observed through a scale model of the stern of the French warship Neptune) could see the full extent of the devastation.

True to his ideal of accuracy, Wyllie had earlier visited Trafalgar Bay in a cruise liner, booking a cabin at water level so he could establish the range of colours he would use.

The Panorama was opened by King George V on 29 July 1930.

Royal sympathy Wyllie died suddenly of a heart attack on 6 April 1931, in London where he had gone to view the hanging of three of his pictures at the Royal Academy - including The Storming of the Mole at Zeebrugge, St George's Day 1918.

His body was brought back to Portsmouth and placed in his studio beneath a huge canvas of the Battle of Jutland - a panoramic painting in the pencil stage which was to have been his next major work.

The funeral service was held at Portsmouth Cathedral. The coffin was then placed in the stern of the cutter from HMS Nelson. Manned by his own Sea Scouts, it was rowed out to the Admiral's barge to be taken up harbour to Portchester, where Wyllie was buried alongside his daughter Eva in St Mary's church. George V and Queen Mary sent a message of sympathy: "His name will be handed down to posterity as a Great Marine Artist".

But the full measure of his standing and popularity can be judged from the fact that the entire front and back pages of the Daily Mirror were given over to photographs of his funeral obsequies .

• A free exhibition, "W.L.Wyllie, RA - The Portsmouth Years", is at Portsmouth City Museum until September 1. It is accompanied by an illustrated monograph in the Portsmouth Papers series by Nigel J.H.Grundy(City of Portsmouth, £3.50); a 50 minute video, also by Nigel Grundy (£13.99); and a biography, "W.L.Wyllie, Marine Artist" by Roger Quarm and John Wyllie (Chris Beetles Ltd, £25).

• Wyllie in his studio at Tower House,Point in 1928, working on the oil 'Crossing the Yardarm' which shows HMS Victory in dry dock. The painting now hangs in the Wardroom, HMS Nelson.

Much of the artist's best work is to be found in naval establishments, notably the superb murals in the Wardrooms of HMS Nelson and Dolphin.

On 12 August 1940 the former was the target for a stick of 30 bombs dropped during a daylight raid. One hit the Wardroom and the blast lifted the ceiling which miraculously fell back into position.

The murals were only slightly damaged and were later restored by Wyllie's son Harold.

• Main Picture: Wyllie at his best, as a depictor of marine subjects ancient and modern. Here HMS Bellerophon a Dreadnought launched in 1907, leaves Portsmouth Harbour in 1909, HMS Victory in the background. The scene was probably painted from the terrace of his home, Tower House, beside the Round Tower.

• Wyllie's delicate, finely detailed etchings are eminently collectanle -often at affordable prices. One of many from World War I period, this one shows a detail from HMS Tiger, Princess Royal, Lion, Warrior and Defence at the Battle of Jutland.

• Sea Scouts launching a boat beside Tower House, Wyllie's home for 25 years. He founded the 1st Portsmouth troop in 1907 - at the request of Baden Powell. One of the boats he bought for them, the 30ft cutter 'Royal Arthur', was the workboat for HMS Royal Arthur and now belongs to the Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust.

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Sailing was the gift of the Nile EGYPT may have been the particular "gift of the Nile", but the river may have bequeathed something for the benefit and enjoyment of all mankind - sailing.

More heavy losses from the Hood THE 63RD (Royal Naval) Division lost nearly 3,500 men in the Ancre battle on the Somme in 1916. Among the many recollections that form the bulk of Michael Jackson's The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme (Sidgwick and Jackson £20) that of S/Lt Trevor Jacobs, RNVR, in a letter to his brother, provides a detailed account of the ordeal of the Hood battalion: "I had received news that all my Coy. officers were wounded and had to be ready to take command of my Coy. which was also mixed up with other men I had commandeered. ..

"We were eventually relieved and marched back for about 1 hour's rest to the German strong point that had been taken that morning by a tank, and which surrendered with 300 prisoners . . . I never saw anything so tragic. It was a shambles, any amount of our brave fellows being all round in shell holes and with terrible wounds, some of them with half a head blown off, others without legs and arms, and others with numerous bullet wounds. I bound up some pretty horrible wounds myself.

"I rested from 7 to 8a.m. in a German dugout sitting up. The smell was appalling, and after

inspection I found that my head had been resting practically against a dead German officer, who was in a fearful state . . .

"When we got back to Englebelmer we were cinematographed. I am marching alone as the second in command of my Coy, but I suppose my steel helmet and unshaven appearance will make me hard to recognise.

All the Commanding Officers of the Brigade have been killed, a fine set of men they were.

"When the GOC General Shute met us at Englebelmer he said, 'You Hoods are wonderful . . . 2 Army Corps had already tried to take the position and failed. You have accomplished it.'

"My Coy went in 150 strong and came out 85. They were lucky."

Both the Jacobs brothers were to be killed in the fighting of the following year.

In The Earliest Ships (Conway Maritime £28), first in time sequence of the twelve volumes of the magisterial 'Conway's History of the Ship' series, this is shown to be hardly surprising.

Egypt boasts a unique waterway, a great river that, running the length of the country, provides the easiest and quickest and most convenient way of getting from one place to another.

What is more, its prevailing wind accommodatingly blows opposite to the direction of its flow: once the Nile boatmen had sails available to them (the earliest evidence is a picture on a vase of c3500 BC) they could travel without having to rely on muscle in either direction.

This volume, however, devotes most space to water transport in northern Europe between 800 AD and 1200 AD - which, thanks in large measure to the work of the Danish National Maritime Museum's research centre at Roskilde over the past 40 years is the area and period of early maritime development about which most is known.

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PART TWO of HMS Indefatigable, Fleet Aircraft Carrier compiled by Peter Bonney and Bill Briggs details the ship's service with the British Pacific Fleet from January 1945 - March 1946.

Day to day events of relevant operations, including the involvement of other RN and USN units, are given, annotated with many personal recollections by members of the Indefatigable Association.

Among the many tales of horror from the Japanese kamikase campaign - and the numerous aircraft accidents that emphasise the hazardous nature of carrier operations at the time - is a typically lighter note from Rear Admiral Anthony Davies, then the ship's gunnery officer.

After the surrender three 'Splice the Mainbrace' signals were issued in a single day and he was discussing the possibilities of a resultant man overboard accident when the sentry alarm bell rang to confirm his fears:

Fitter • Anglo-Saxon settlers of thelate fifth century pulling 70ft vessels of the Nydam Ship type - from the cover painting of The Earliest Ships by Mark Myers.

Iceland, Greenland and sometimes America?

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Get Shorty is vintage Leonard G

iNNpISSEURS of .merican thriller riters have known for years that Elmore Leonard is someone special.

The accumulation of picturesque characters, the contrast between the faces they present to the world and all the anxieties, neuroses etc they try to hide from it, the way the author manoeuvres these characters into position to get the plot on the road, the colourful digressions, the humour, the abrupt explosions of violence, the unpredictability - no-one writes a thriller quite like Elmore Leonard.

Reading one of his books is like

watching a game of Russian roulette in which nobody knows how many bullets, if any, the gun is loaded with.

None of the films adapted from his work has properly caught the

Screen Scene flavour, but Get Shorty comes closer than most.

The setting is Hollywood, the variously crooked, desperate characters are vintage Leonard, and to see him set them all off on collision course is to watch a master at work.

The line-up includes a monoma-

niac film star, a laid-back loan shark from Miami, a blustering, poverty-stricken film producer, a berserk gangster - not to mention the starlet, the stuntman and the locker full of money.

Gene Hackman is at his most comically seedy as the accidentprone producer; Danny De Vito (who does not play Shorty) seems unlikely casting as the film star, until you remember that Danny De Vito really is a film star; and we will just have to come to terms with the fact that after Pulp Fiction and now this, John Travolta has clearly embarked on a new career phase, Clint as out-Eastwooding Hollywood's number one tough

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Get Shorty operates on the basis of offering its audience a series of surprises, French Kiss provides the reassuring pleasures

Major threat from minor war vessels ANTI-SUBMARINE nets once made life difficult for midget submersibles - and modern sensors might make them even more effective.

However, the skills required for net laying and boom defence are now all but forgotten.

Paul Kemp makes the point craft - the Royal Navy's X-Craft - belief that death in action will lead in Underwater Warrior with the capacity to lay explosive to a Marxist or Islamic nirvana will (Arms & Armour, £16.99) charges plus a wet and dry com- overcome a good deal of inadequafor a diver and maybe a cy in training. while noting that Russia has partment robotic arm. Propulsion might "It only takes one midget to get been the most active naval even be nuclear. through with her cargo for the mispower in the midget submarine Underwater Warrior rightly sion to succeed. One can only specfield. devotes a good deal of space to the ulate at the result of such an oper-

Reliable estimates put the number of Russian midgets in service in the early 1990s at around 200.

The two India Class rescue submarines can each carry a pair of Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles, of which the Russians have 12.

"Ostensibly these submarines are for use in rescue operations, but their military potential is obvious," the author argues, adding that midgets might actually be the most potent anti-submarine weapon: "The quietness of modern nuclear submarines makes them very hard to detect at sea: therefore, the best place to attack them would probably alongside the depot ship or jetty."

Current designs would be based on the most successful wartime

X-Craft - they might not have been as technically sophisticated as the Japanese Ko-Hyoteki and the Italian CB craft but more than compensated for this by their versatility.

And their operators had thorough and realistic training - while the Germans were flung into battle with hardly any at all and achieved little as a result.

Today, countries in possession of midget submarines include Libya, North Korea and Iran.

In the summer of 1990 Saddam Hussein was in the final stages of negotiation to buy a midget submarine from Maritalia (purchase was blocked at the last moment) which he planned to arm with a nuclear weapon, the author concludes chillingly, adding: "The

ation - a wrecked offshore oil installation in the Persian Gulf, an American aircraft carrier mined while at anchor in the Bay of Naples, a chemical/biological(or nuclear) device detonated in an Israeli harbour ..."

By contrast, the Germans in World War II had a great deal of success with another small craft the high performance motor-torpedo boats or Schnellboote, known to the Allies as E-Boats.

And there is now also renewed interest in high-speed coastal combatants following their use in the Iran-Iraq and Gulf Wars, The US Navy recently decided to build two new classes of coastal craft, the 70ft Patrol Boat Mk Five and the 170ft Patrol Craft One - class leader for the latter being the Vosper Thornycroft designed USS Cyclone.

She, like the E-Boats, is powered by multiple 3,000 hp diesels and combines great range with speed and reliability on a high-performance platform.

In E-Boat Alert (Airlife £19.95) James Foster Tent describes how the E-Boats posed a real and subsequently underated threat to the success of the Normandy landings.

The tragedy of Lyme Bay, when two flotillas of E-Boats attacked a convoy of LSTs killing 749 US soldiers and sailors engaged in a practice landing, is well known.

Less well known is the raid six weeks iater on the E-Boat pens at Le Havre by RAF Lancasters fitted with special Barnes Wallisdesigned deep penetration bombs which neutralised the threat.

Nearly fifty years later the Americans hastily designed a new deep-penetration bomb to take out one of Saddam Hussein's deepcover command centres, a bunker with walls twice as thick as the Le • Forgotten skills: but there may still be a need for net laying and Havre pens.

-JFA boom defence to counter today's midget submarine threat.

i Number one tough guy: John Travolta stars in Get Shorty. of the familiar. tub full of kittens, and Kevin Kline We've met them many times as a blustering rogue with a heart before, the incongruous, antago- of gold, both make excellent comnistic couple brought together by pany. some scriptwriter's contrivance That rubber-featured, hyperand sent traipsing off on an inci- active comedian Jim Carrey has a dent-packed adventure in which new movie out, Ace Ventura Romance is the real and inevitable When Nature Calls. Any Jim Carrey movie is, of course, destination.

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NTIL the end of the last century oilskin raincoats and sou'wester hats were the only widely used waterproof or protective clothes.

Old or worn uniforms jacket and trousers, still made tended to be used for dirty in oilskin, from 1954 onwards.

For colder weather the duffel tasks such as coaling ship was widely used and is or handling machinery. The coat seen as an 'icon' evoking gradual realisation, early in now memories of Atlantic convoys this century, that square rig and other wartime operations. was not ideal as a working Both were worn over uniform rig in a mechanical rather with steel helmets, anti-flash than a sailing ship led to the gloves and hood as necessary. adoption of white sweaters, Neither was developed to be serge trousers and part of an ensemble and both reflected a subjective approach seaboots in submarines in keeping with the times. and destroyers and by The present Action Working mechanics working on air- Dress (AWD), more usually craft. referred to as Number 8s, was

White uniforms were worn extensively in home waters for working "part of ship" until as late as 1939, since they were easier to launder than blue serge, for really dirty work, such as painting, the original number 8 dress was worn. This was a two piece, heavy cotton overall worn over day wear when even old clothes would be ruined.

For protection against the elements, the oilskin continued in use throughput World War II and Korea until replaced by a version of today's foul weather

the result of the first systematic approach by the Royal Navy to solve a clothing problem.

The use of "sweater" rigs by submariners, coastal forces and the smaller warships, not to mention khaki drill in the RNAS, continued to illustrate the inadequacy of square rig during and after World War I. By 1936 there was considerable enthusiasm for a new action working rig on the lower deck, but most senior officers saw no need for change.

Development of a specialist action working rig continued

• Not ideal: white working square rig as worn on the flight deck of HMS Furious, Scapa Flow, 1917. into the early years of World reasonable protection against changes of both fabric and War II. Both single and two flash while being more easily design in its fifty years of serpiece suits were considered in cleaned than blue serge. vice. Pure cotton was replaced a variety of colours including by a polyester rich fabric in the Protection against malarial white, black, blue, green, grey insects and the need to be mid 1970s to make it more easand khaki. inconspicuous against a warily laundered. The melt injuries Subjectively, cotton was choship background were given caused by this fabric need no sen as the fabric since it was elaboration and improvements priority with the need to protect widely available and provided against flash. were already being considered The catalyst for production before the Falklands conflict. came when HMS Victorious Production returned to pure was lent to the US Pacific Fleet cotton treated with chemicals in 1943. She was equipped with to enhance its fire retardant USN aircraft for her squadrons, (FR) properties in 1983 - but USN communications equipthis in turn was found to shrink ment - and her entire ship's and to be extremely difficult to company were given USN launder. working rigs which proved Present production has extremely popular, with khaki some polyester mixed with the for officers and blue chambray FR treated cotton, making it shirts and jeans for the ratings. easier to launder while resisOn her return, Victorious tant to melting. proposed that this rig be adoptThe need for protection in ed by the RN - and, once action is greater than ever with "Anglicised", it was. "lean manned" ships and the The resultant AWD continues risk of fire enhanced by the in use today with minor modifiexpanding number of missiles cations. As accepted in 1944, it was felt to look smarter than a one-piece coverall.

Different shades of blue were specified as it was intended to place different contracts for shirts and trousers, with the result that colour matching, had it been specified, would have been a problem.

likely to be aimed at our ships.

Development is, therefore, proceeding to design a Naval Action Clothing System (NACS) to replace AWD. Like its predecessor, it is likely to be a quantum step forward and to be worn as working dress as well as in action.

There has been a revolution in fabric design over the past few years, making it possible to "design in" greater levels of FR protection and easy care attributes.

The core garment is intended to need no ironing, to be suitable for wear in first aid firefighting situations and to form the basis of all planned future protective ensembles.

• Pan 4 of Cdr David Hobbs' history of RN uniform follows next month with the development of women's styles.

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A heavier cotton than that used by the USN was adopted and the existing boots, seaman's jumper (if necessary), anti flash gloves and hood with a steel helmet completed the rig in action. Caps were worn with it as working dress.

Supplies of cotton were finite in wartime Britain and Admiralty supplies were rationed. AWD issues were therefore phased, with priority going to the British Pacific Fleet which formed late in 1944.

Number 8 Dress was immediately extremely popular and its use spread throughout the post war RN, worldwide. It was a radical departure from everything that had gone before and was originally intended only for wear in action by ratings.

By the late 1940s, however, it had become everyday working rig with the result that square rig, of which there had been seven variations in blue, white and combinations of the two, was limited to formal and ceremonial use. The number of uniform rigs for ratings has continued to decline to the present two as a consequence.

AWD has undergone

• The American touch: this drawing accompanied HMS Victorious' submission to the Admiralty, proposing a new Action Working Dress in 1944. With minor changes, the resulting Number 8s design remains in use to this day.

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RFA brings relief after yacht blaze RFA FORT George went to the rescue of a stricken yacht which caught fire in midAtlantic with three people on board.

The RFA was bound for Devonport after taking part in exercise Purple Star in America when she intercepted a distress signal from the Canadian yacht Tiberias.

Fort George immediately altered course and increased speed to intercept the yacht and acted as a relay station for the US coastguard and a C130 Hercules aircraft which pinpointed the damaged vessel.

Fort George reached Tiberias in the small hours of the morning and found her crew safe and well but very relieved to see her.

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Wiring An electrical fire had destroyed much of the vessel's wiring, taking out her generator and drastically reducing the range of her radio.

Fort George brought the crew on board for hot showers and a meal and her mechanics and electricians were able to repair the generator and jury-rig the radio.

The RFA stayed in company with the Tiberias for most of the following day until another yacht, the Balkan Riff, was able to escort her to the Azores.

RFA Fort George was due back in Devonport as Navy News went to press.

DURING his inspection of HMS Gannet Flag Officer Naval Aviation Rear Admiral Terry Loughran presented Captain Steve Roberts, CAP with the Queen's Commendation for Bravery in the Air (see above).

Captain Roberts is currently on Squadron achieving the highest exchange with 819 Naval Air degree of operational capability.

During the period covered by Squadron. As reported in our April edition, the award recognis- the award 800 Sqn was embarked es his role as commander of a Sea in HMS Invincible for eight and a King helicopter that carried out a half months, most of that time hazardous rescue mission in the spent on opwerations in the Scottish Highlands in August 1994. Adriatic.

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Royal Navy Pill Box • HMS Leeds Castle stands by as an RAF Sea King prepares to winch down vital spares to teenage lone yachtsman David Dicks.

Short order spares for a young lone yachtsman WHEN TEENAGE yachtsman David Dicks' attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world single handed was dogged by mechanical problems while rounding Cape Horn, the Navy came to the rescue.

CPO David Taylor of the Naval Engineering Unit on the Falkland Islands manufactured replacement parts for the 34 ft yacht Sea Flight's damaged mast and steering system in just eight hours.

After a Sea King helicopter flew the parts out to him, it was found that a bolt for the mast would not fit, despite having been made exactly to specifications.

So it was taken on board the Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland and machined to the correct size - and 17-year-old Dicks carried on to his next port of call, Bermuda.

• A plaque to commemorate the first landing to establish a British settlement in the Falklands by Commodore John Byron in HMS Dolphin in 1765 has been unveiled at Port Egmont, Saunders Island. Meanwhile a memorial service for Lt Nicholas Taylor of 800 Naval Air Squadron, the first Fleet Air Arm pilot to be killed in the 1982 conflict.was held by his grave at Goose Green, Governor Richard Ralph and Commander British Forces Commodore Alexander Backus attending.

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At Your Service Calling old shipmates

Reunions JUNE Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Crew annual reunion will take place at the new track at RNAS Culdrose June 28-29. Further details from Jim Andrews on 01329 664007 or the Butter of Air on 01326 557649.

JULY Fast Minelayers Association SE branch will get together at the British Legion Club, Braganza St, Kennington, London, on July 1 at 1200. Enquiries to Ray Moore, 89 Watling Rd, Norwich NR7 9TG. Tel 01603 437652.

Foylebank: The 19th reunion will be held at Portland Heights Hotel and HMS Osprey, July 5-8. Contact D. Bishop, "Sheilings", Rackenford, Tiverton, Devon EX16 BDU (tel 01884 881297) tor details.

HMS Glasgow Old Boys' Association will hold their 17th reunion in Portsmouth on July 6 and 7. All ex-crew welcome. Enquiries to S/M Allan Mercer, 89 Royal Ave, Widnes, Cheshire WA8 8HJ. The Royal Navy Club of 1765 and 1785 (United 1889), a dining club for seaman commanders and above, which also gives financial help to the needy, will next meet on July 10 in the Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn. The evening will celebrate the Queen's Birthday and commemorate Operation Husky (the landings in Sicily in 1943), and the Duke of Edinburgh will preside.His guest will be Admiral ol the Fleet the Lord Lewin.

Watts Naval Training School closed 50 years ago and to mark the anniversary a renion is to be held at the site of the old school at North Elmham, Norfolk, on July 13 and 14. All old boys and their families are cordially invited. For lull details contact Mr F.W.Hill on 01843 225157 or Barnardos Alter Care on 0181 5508822.

Writers of Anson Class Royal Arthur and 443 Class Ceres will hold a 50th anniversary reunion dinner at the Methuen Arms, Corsham, on July 16. Contact Cliff Hayes on 01225 862444 for details.

AUGUST Fighter Controllers: D School is to hold a reunion on August 3 to commemorate the demise of the D School Wren. It is open to all serving and retired Fighter Controllers, FRADU pilots, simulator pilots, D School Wrens and others connected with the School of Fighter Control. Contact Lt Jim Kearney, RNSFC, RNAS Yeovilton, llchester, Somerset BA22 8HT For more information ring 01935 455647.

HMS Rotherham Captain (D) XI D.F will hold their annual reunion August 31 • September 2 in Rotherham, Yorkshire.

Contact Bob Sandford, 61 Tamarisk, Pandora Meadows, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PESO 3DZ. HMS Pheasant The first reunion will be held at Sinah Warren Holiday Camp, Hayling Island, Portsmouth, August 30 to September 2. Contact Mr Bernard Dowding. 1 Dymchurch Close, Clayhall - Bark Side, llford. Essex IG5 OLB Tel 0181 924 9158.

The Seaman Specialist Comrades Association inaugural meeting will be held at the Mountbatten Rooms, HMS Dolphin, August 31. A boat will be laid on from Old Portsmouth. Members will receive details by post. Specialists not on the mailing list but interested in joining the association should contact Snowy Clingham on 01329 317281 or Ralph McDonald on 01225 882046.

SEPTEMBER HMS Kenya Association will hold a reunion in the first week of September. All interested are asked to contact the secretary, Mr W.J. Boardman, 35 Holmleigh Rd, Childwall. Liverpool L25 2SA. Tel 0151 487 0093.

MTE Rosyth - Ex-apprentices of the Grenville Division 1941-45 are holding a reunion in Portsmouth September 3 to Sept 5. For further information contact Bert Maile on 01384 395303.

473 Squad RM, Gregory's Greyhounds, plus 425, 313, 976, 546, 547, 565. 567 and 517: A reunion will be held at Deal September 6-8. For details contact Fred Waters, 29 Stanley Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent CT6 5SQ (tel 01227 372487) or Terry Easingwood, 17 West Park Close, Leeds LS8 2ED (tel 0113 266 6418).

Fleet Air Arm apprentices of Benbow Divsion 1941-44 are advised a reunion will take place in Sherborne/Yeovilton September 6-8. Contact John (Chick) Fowler on 01784 258947.

HMSWhimbrel U29 1943-46 - looking for more crew. An association is being formed and two officers and 22 ratings are already in touch. The ship was with Capt Walker's second escort group, Russian convoy, D Day, British Pacific Fleet, Java. A reunion will be held September 6 to 9 at Warners Holiday Village, Sinah Warren, Hayling Island. For details, send a SAE to Mr George Fancett, 30 Parkfield Crescent, Feltham, Middlesex TW13 7LA. Tel 0181 751 3917.

HMS Tartar 1939-1940: A reunion is being held at Evesham on Sunday,

September 8. Details from Ted Brown, tel 01793535275.

HMS Antrim Association The third reunion will be held September 20-22 at the Home Club, Portsmouth. For details, contact Terry Bullingham, 29 Devon Rd, Smethwick, Warley, West Midlands B67 5EL. Tel 1021 429 2428.

HMS Garlies K475. The fourth reunion is to be held at the Union Jack Club, London, on September 21. For details contact Putty Read on 01344 55072.

HMS Duff 1943-45 - the third reunion is to be held at the Jarvis International Hotel, Solihull, on September 28. Details from N. Johns. The Old Chandlery, New Road, Instow, Bideford, Devon EX39 4LN. Tel 01271 860578.

The River Class Assocciation reunion will take place on September 28 from 1200 at the RNA Club, Royal Leamington Spa - new members will be very welcome. Further details may be obtained from the secretary.

Peter Horrell at Spriddlestone Lodge, Wembury Rd, Wembury, Plymouth PL9 ODQ. Tel 01752 408308.

Cruiser Seamen A reunion in Arezzo, Italy, is being arranged for Sept or Oct. Write to Con-ado Giannini, Via Umbria 11, 52100 Arezzo, Italy, for details.

HMS Abdiel: A reunion and dedication of a memorial at Taranto, with a visit to the War Graves at Bari, Italy, will take place in late September. General Sir Anthony FarrerHockley, representatives of the Italian government and armed forces and the Bntish Attache will attend. War widows and the widows of survivors are asked to contact by letter Mr Gwyn Evans, 68 Beverley Grove, Blackpool FY4 2BE.

OCTOBER HMS Diana 1956-57 Association will hold a 40th anniversary reunion at the New Continental Hotel, Plymouth, October 4-6.

New members very welcome. Details are available from Ken Perkins, 46 Courtland Crescent, Plympton, Plymouth PL7 4HL. Tel 01752338602.

The Regulating Branch Association (93) will hold its AGM and reunion at 1900 on October 5 at the Victory Club, HMS Nelson.

Tickets (priced £7) are only available from Tony Hadley, 7 Delamere Rd, Southsea PO4 OJA. All regulators are welcome to attend.

HMS Ocean Association will hold a reunion at the Solent Hotel, Southsea, on October 12. Details from Mr D.J. Lord, 74 Montague Close, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey KT12 2NG. Tel 01932 241116.

North Russia Club: the 12th annual reunion will be held on October 19 at the

Swallow Hotel. Northampton. For details contact Les Jones, Flat 16, Arcon House, Coppull, Chorley, Lanes PR7 STY. Tel 01257 791632.

Div II Pay Office Staff, RNB Chatham (1947-1949), will hold a second reunion on October 22/23 in Portsmouth. Ex-RN, ex WRNS and partners are welcome. Contact Les Keen on 01279 771580 for latest details.

HMS Calder. The second reunion will be held in the Rose and Crown Hotel, Salisbury, on October 25/26. Contact Harold Fine on 0181 455 9400. Any information on the whereabouts of shipmates will be followed up.

14th Carrier Air Group, 804 and 812 Sqns of HM ships Ocean and Glory 19481952. A reunion will be held on October 26 at the RNA Club, Leamington Spa, for all who served. Contact Ken Lambert, 17 Walgrave, Orton Maiborne, Peterborough PE2 5NR. Tel 01733234655.

Survey Ships Association invites past and present members of the ship's companies of all RN survey vessels to join as full members. Associate and honorary membership is also available. The second AGM and reunion is to take place in Nottingham on October 26. For further information send stamped SAE to the Secretary, Survey Ships Assoc, The Elms Guest House, 48 Victoria Road South, Southsea, Hants POS 2BT. Tel/Fax 01705 823924.

TS Mercury Old Boys Association will hold its AGM and annual reunion dinner at Chilworth Manor, near Southampton, on October 26. Further details from David Parsons, 2 Chapel Lane, Otterbourne, Winchester, Hants SO21 2HX. Tel 01703 254329.

NOVEMBER HMS Duchess, all commissions.

Shipmates interested in a reunion in November at Blackpool who are not already in touch should contact Gordon Phipps, 3 Holt Weer Close, Oxford OX2 8NW. Tel 0186559935.

HMS Constance 1945/51 is to hold a seventh reunion in London on November 810. For reunion and association details contact the president, Ernie Balderson at 43 Old Place, Sleaford, Lines NG34 7HR. Tel 01529 413410.

The George Cross Island Association (West Branch) is holding a veterans' weekend of reunion and remembrance at Haven Holiday Village, Seaton, Devon, November 8-11. Allied ships associations and veterans are welcome. For details contact the PRO, Roy Maber, at 12 Fairfield, Martock, Somerset TA12 6DY. Tel 01935 822321.

Over to you The bells, the bells. Mr M.T. Wood, 76 Haddon Drive, Woodley, Reading, Berks RG5 4LT is researching all aspects of RN ships' bells numbers, removal for safekeeping in action, functions etc. All ships covered but particular interest in WWI and WWII destroyers.

403 Kings Squad RM. Plymouth Division 1941. tl you served with the late Mne Eric Cusworth are asked to contact his son, Mr R. Cusworth, 94 Lennox St, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland PA42 7BW. Also anyone who knew him while serving in HM ships Ceres, Suffolk, Duke of York, Newfoundland and Venerable.

A topedo coxswain's badge is all RN Light Coastal Forces veteran Tom Hilt needs to com-

plete an impressive collection designed to go on display to his Aussie mates of the Returned Servicemen's League in Ballarat. Mr Hill is subjected to constant (good natured) advice about now the Australians won the war and he wants to redress the balance. He can be contacted at 37 lona Drive, Sebastopol, Ballarat, victoria, Australia.

M. Wade (PJX 429897) Information on this Australian is sought by his widow. HMS Collingwood late 1942 to Combined Operations, he was wounded in Wateheran Landings and transferred to Royal Guard.In first instance write to Mr D.S. Osbome, 11 The Poplars, Wendover, Bucks HP22 6NP.

THE TRECARN HOTEL Babbacombe, Torquay The Naval Reunion Specialists 2 nights DBB £52.50 pp. 3 nights DBB £72.00 pp (prices include Banquet meal) We have over many years been associated with the Royal Navy, holding Reunions for HMS EXETER. HMS SHEFFEILD, HMS NEWFOUNDLAND, HMS TENBY, HMS ARETHUSA, HMS CUMBERLAND, and the TON CLASS ASSOCIATION. The Trecarn has 136 En-Suite bedrooms with colour TV, tea making facilities, and can accommodate up to 250 Guests, The hotel has a large Dining Room that can hold up to 300 Guests, as well as two spacious Ballrooms and Bar areas, ideal for any association regardless of its membership size.

STOP PRESS !!! After last year's successful Naval Reunion "Showcase", held for Organisers of Reunions, we are repeating the weekend on January 24th-26th 1997.

For Information please Contact: BRYAN PITMAN- GENERAL MANAGER. TEL 01803 329292

THE ASSOCIATION OF > ROYAL NAVY OFFICERS Patron Her Majesty The Queen ARNO, the Officers' Charitable and Social fellowship, is open to all Serving and Retired Commissioned Officers of the RN, RM, WRNS, QARNNS and their Reserves.

Formed in 1925, ARNO's primary purpose is to assist Members including Honorary Members (the wido'.vs of former members) with grants and bursaries from the proceeds of its assets which exceed £2 million, wherever there is a need.

Today the financial advantages of membership comfortably exceed the annual subscription (£10 per annum or £150 for Life) and include: * Automobile Association Membership at less than half price in many cases * House Purchase Oenerous cash payments with mortgage and with Life Assurance, and competitive conveyancing costs. * Legal, Financial and Medical Consultations at free or favourable rates * Trade Discounts in a wide range of services including insurance, travel, hotels, clothing and hirewear, car hire, medical, jewellery and many more. A List of Members and a high quality interesting colour Year Book are issued, and ARNO organises 'Regional Social Functions and Group Holidays * A list of members worldwide who would like to exchange homes for holidays * Mail redirection * Swords and uniform items for sale * an ARNO credit card.

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HMS Protector c. 1963 Photographs of Fred the penguin and others taken on board HMS Protector are required by Mr E.P. Agate, 256C Ditehling Rd, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 6JF, whose own pictures were stolen. Ex Std Agate nursed and cared for the penguins during the trip home. Also stolen were photographs of Goldie the eagle, escapee from London Zoo. Bring Daedalus home? Members of the Reel Air Arm Association want to know more about the statue of Daedalus and Icarus, standing outside the old station church, opposite Lyster Barracks, at Hatfar, Malta. Was it from the wardroom or Captain's office? What is its history? Is there a Maltese connection?

Contact Mr Bill Rodgers, 195 Ridgeway Rd, Fishponds. Bristol BS16 3EH. Tel 0117 400296.

JSSC/NDC Latimer Former personnel/students of the Joint Services Staff College/National Defence College at Latimer, Bucks. Were your children educated at Chenies Primary School during your term at Latimer? The school is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding in July. Please contact the secretary for further details on 01923 282546.

Wolvernampton Wanderers FC have wind of a ship named or nicknamed Wolves, thought to have been operating during the Second World War. Any information would be gratefully received by Mr C. Hartill, 9 Chaletland, Arthur St, Wolverhampton WV2 SEA. Tel 01902 337783.

HMS Cardigan Bay. Would any shipmate be kind enough to spare Mr Kenneth Lowe a photograph or two of the ship (1945-47). His were lost through an accident. Contact Ken at 132 Lundy Rd, Longton. Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs ST3 2EF. Tel 01782 326234.

Ginger Roberts (George Robertson) 1917-1982. Information is sought on the Whitley Bay-born boxer, who served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and was Navy welterweight champion in 1944. Mr David Anderson, 53 Collywell Bay Rd, Seaton Sluice, Whitley Bay, Northumberland NE26 4RG (0191 237 1462 tel and fax), is researching Ginger's wartime fights. He would be happy to take on sime reciprocal research "up north".

Shark Anti Submarine Weapon: Mr R. Bond, ex-HMS Crane 1943-44, wishes to know more about this (experimental?) weapon, never used in anger by the Crane.

A projectile of 6ft 6in with rear fins, painted yellow with red rings on the nose, the weapon had a separate propellant charge in a brass case. It was loaded and fired from HMS Crane's B gun deck, twin Mk 16 Star 4in gun. Was the weapon fitted to other vessels? Was it used? With what success? Write to Mr Bond at Alltweler. Aberbanc, Llandysul.

Dyfed SA44 5NP. Photographs of RN ships in harbour and personnel at Gibraltar WW1 and WW2 onwards are sought by Mr O. Bossino, c/o Bacchus Restaurant, John Mackintosh Square, Gibraltar. He would like to borrow and return same.

J350 1945-46 Italian coast. Information is sought by the brother of the late William (Ginger) Hewitt, who served on Mediterranean Convoys and as a marksman was called on to take rifle shots at mines. Mr Walter Hewitt. 5 Aberford Rd. Baguley Hall.

Wythenshawe, Manchester M23 1JY. has six photographs of the minesweeper taken around Naples.

HM submarines Telemachus (1949), Trump (1969). Andrew (when used in the film "On the Beach") and Thorough (when it rammed a ferry in Sydney Harbour in the mid-1950s) - Ex-WRAN Mrs Sue Hancock, of 37 Bedford Dve. Timperley. Altrincham, Chesriire. WA15 7XB (tel 0161 980 8815) is tracing personnel who served on these vessels. She is helping a retired Lt Cdr RAN, Dr White, who is writing a book on the history of the 4th Division S/M based in Sydney 194969.

OS Davy Green, originally from Belfast, joined HMS Raleigh on September 17,1941, served in minesweepers and for 18 months in Alexandria and boxed for the Royal Navy.His daughter Jackie Perry, of 2 Military Rd, Hilsea, Portsmouth POS 5LS, would like to hear from anyone who knew or has photographs of her late father, who died in December.

SS Thistlegorm: Mr G.A.Huxley, 231 Ealing Rd, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9PU, would be very interested in details of this ship, sunk in the Red Sea during the war. His interest was aroused by a scuba diver who told him the vessel had its cargo of tanks, lorries and munitions intact.

19th century Naval wives - Mrs Anne Campbell, a 20th century Naval wife, is interested in the provisions and help made available to her counterparts of the last century, which she is researching as part of a college course. Her local library has plenty of Naval history but little concerning the home front.

She can be contacted at 20 Norfolk Close, Laira, Plymouth, Devon PL3 6DB. Ronald W. Head CERA HMS 1022.

Information on this Royal Navy officer, belived to be a lieutenant, whose ship was berthed in Norfolk, Virginia, during the Second World War, is sought by Mr Robert R. Clarke, 129 Liberty Rd, Sykesville, Maryland 21784 USA. LCT crews. Did you serve with Stanley Armstead. of Newton Tony, Salisbury, on LCTs between August 1943 and October 1944? LWireman Armstead died when LCT 488 sank on October 19 1944 in home waters. Tony. Lyons, of The Post Office, Newton Tony, Salisbury, SP4 OHF (01980 629237), has details of the loss of LCT 488, but would like to know more about the previous service history of Stanley Armstead.

Admiralty radio: HMS St Vincent museum is seeking information/memorabilia, particularly photographic, concerning the Admiralty radio station which was housed within the cupola on the roof of Old Admiralty Building, Whitehall, circa 1907-1939. Please contact DOIC Commcen Whitehall, Old Admiralty Building, Spring Gardens, Whitehall SW1A 2BE. Tel 0171 218 1068.

Class 192 Chatham Barracks, Kent, July 1938. Mr Arthur Sugg would value any letters from LS L. Simpson or classmates T. Loughnane, J. Crawley, R. Rist, A. Gordon, J. Watson, A. Jones, D. Callow, A. Clark, P. Butcher, R. Chambers, A. Eason, J. Ferguson. E. King and D. James. Write to him at 18 Churchill Way, Downham Market, Norfolk PE38 9RS. LSI Empire Arquebus. Mr T. Parker, 370 Greenwood Ave. Hull HU6 SAP, is looking for photos or drawings of this vessel, which he will return after use.

Australian M. Wade: Information sought on M. Wade P/JX 429897 - HMS Collingwood late 1942 to Combined Operations. Wounded at Walcheren, taken off active service to Royal Guard. All information passed to his widow. Contact D.S. Osborne, 11 The Poplars, Wendover, Bucks HP22 6NP. HMS Imogen A brother of SA John (Jack) R. Foster, who was killed as a result of HMS Glasgow ramming HMS Imogen on July 16,1940, wishes to get in touch with any shipmate serving in Imogen at the time.

Please contact ex-PO Gordon, Foster, 23 Bolney Ave. Peacehaven, E. Sussex BN10 SNA. Tel 01273 584940.

1940-1944 A plaque to lost seamen James Flynn, Ben Meyrick, William Lance, Charles Harris, Philip Nightingale, William Lynch. Leslie Squire, John Van De Kasteele.

S Franks. John Mitchel, Douglas Kiddle, Cecil Luce, David Jackson, Charles Parini, Harold Towzer and Mickey West has been found. Were they RN or merchant seaman?

Which was their ship? Where does the plaque belong? Contact JM Buie, "Arran", 7 Meadow Close. Stretford. Manchester M32 8JF Tel 0161 8653435.

CPOMA Barry Swithenbank, radiology dept RNH Stonehouse 1985/86, is being sought by Nigel Cookson, 31 Hill St, Stapenhill, Burton on Trent. Staffs DE15 SLA. Tel 01283 535822. A surprise 60th birthday party is being planned for September for his oppo, ex-POSBA Brian Cookson.

Ninth Minesweeping Flotilla is seeking ex-ship's company of the following vessels: HMS Bridport (contact Ray Storey 01636 72858), HMS Bangor (Ken Sailer, 01392 882296), HMS Blackpool (Len Ginger, 01734 783561), and HMS Bridlington (R. Smout, 01705660207).

HMS Demirhisar (UK) and HMS Lars Risdahl (Tobruk 1942) Frank Simms, only Newfounder on board these ships would like to contact his wartime shipmates. Write to him at PO Box 194 Stn C, Goose Bay, Labrador, AOP1CO, Canada.

Mr Gledwyn. believed to have served with AB (LTO) Ernest Townrow (ex-HMS Hero (Narvik and Med 1940/41, Charlestown, Vernon and Abercrombie) is being sought by Mr Townrow's widow. In first instance please contact Mr C.W.Kirk on 0163671831.

Ganges 15.1.46 John Firth,Robert Husband, R.L. Knight, G.E. Saunders.

Roger Street. Stan Stunnell, John Waddel, Albert Weller and others who joined Ganges 15.1.46 are still being sought for a 50th anniversary reunion at the Regent Hotel, Leamington in July. Contact Mike Draper, 2 Dormy Way, Gosport, Hants PO13 9RF. Tel 01329825877.

HMS Morecambe Bay (1949-56) Any former officer/rating interested in a proposed reunion is asked to contact Geoff Harrison at 18 Tamella Way, Botley, Hants SO30 2NY. Tel 01489 787111.

HMS Whitesand Bay 1945-56 For association details contact Geoff Nightingale, 268 Galley Hill, Gadebridge, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP1 3LD. Tel 01442 63405.

HMS Bulawayo (1949/50) Ron Simmonds, 21 Rectory Grove, Wickford, Essex SS11 SEP. would like to contact shipmates.

HMS Tiger paid off for the last time as a conventional cruiser 30 years ago in December. Ex-CK John Coulston would like to hear from shipmates who served on board 1959-66, and particularly 1964-66. Write to him at 30 Chorley Rd, Adlington, Chorley, Lanes PR6 9LJ. Tel 01257 483268.

HMS Volage and Charity 1947 Reg Poingdestre, of 77 Gatcombe Rd, Hartcliffe, Bristol BS13 9RE, would like to hear from Ernest Spence. Tel 0117 9642394.

HMS Ursa June 1944. Were you on board giving covering fire to the 47th RM Commandos at Port-en-Bessin? If so, please contact Colin Houldey, 3 Gloucester Rd, Willerby, E. Yorks HU10 6HW. Tel 01482 651652 as soon as possible.

HMS Blake 1972-75 Ex-LWtr Bob Peach would like to hear from old shipmates, especially 3DI Mess and all on my "Pay round".

Contact at 39 Toll Bar Rd, Castleford, W. Yorks WF10 1QP or c/o Castleford RNA, RBL, Castleford.

LA Mech(E) A (Bert) Oldfield 848 NAS, HMS Simbang 1954/55, then from East London, and other squadmates are being sought by all-ranks group for a reunion.

Contact Les Smith on 01584 831397.

HMS Cheerful 1950-54. Dinger Bell, 60 Carnach Green, South Ockendon, Essex RM15 5PZ (Tel 01708 854234) is in touch with Ted Smith and Tel Potton, but would like to hear from some of the rest of the mob.

HMS Impregnable Signal School 1943.

Ex-Signalman Ginger Paton wishes to contact Signalman Frank Featherstone. Also has news of other shipmate from HMS Onslaught wishing contact. Tel 0161 748 0757.

HMS Troubrldge Were you at the recording of The Navy Lark in June 1967?

Please contact ME(E)1 Roger Green, 3 Addy Crescent, South Elmsall, Pontefract WF9 2XF. Tel 01977 646033.

Ton-class minesweeper men, especially from HMS Edderton in 1956, are asked to contact Edward Freathy, Elmbank, Marlow Rd, Bourne End, Bucks SL8 5NL. Tel 01628 523711.

HMS Fisgard Blake Division 1944 Exboy ordnance artificers John Henry Mould and William Tootle Horrocks, where are you?

You are the only two of a class of 94 remaining untraced. Please contact Peter Johnson on 01489 577293.

800 Sqn (Seafire). HMS Triumph 194749. Shipmates, especially LAM/A Halliday (Redhill), LAM/L Mcdonald (Liverpool), AM/E Boden (Tipton) and AM/0 Davies (Kidderminster), please contact ex-AM/A Bert Wilson, 12 Pinewood Drive, Binley Woods, Coventry CVS 2BX. Ex-crew members of HM ships Affleck, Ascension, Capel, Cooke, Cranstoun, Dommett, Hoste, Garlies and Moorsom, ships of the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 17th Escort Groups, attended a reunion last year.

Another is planned for the Stretton Hotel, Blackpool, this November.Those interested in the Escort Group Association and joining its next reunuion are asked to contact Harry Rawson on 01460 234583.

Moorpout 1949-50. Ex Sto Mech Ray Johnson, 32 Devonshire Close, Chesterfield SH3 3PB, would like to contact shipmates from the boom defence vessel Moorpout 1949-50. They brought HMS Barbecue back home to Portsmouth from Bermuda in 1950, calling at the Azores to top up her coal bunkers.

HMS Witch. Searching for ex-ship's company. Please contact Tony Miles.

Greenacres, Ashford Carbonell, nr Ludlow, Shropshire SYS 4DG. Tel 01584 831427.Reunion planned for June.

Lt Ken H.B. Pont RN, formerly of 31 Esher Rd, East Molesey, Surrey, and Little Gable, 1 Grand Crescent, Rottingdean, Sussex, is being sought by ex-S/Lt (E) Bill Murdoch RNVR, with whom he served in HMS Searcher, until the latter was invalided out in 1943. Mr Murdoch can be contacted at 109 Pitlochry Drive, Cardonald, Glasgow G52 2TF. Tel 0141 882 2238.

8th Destroyer Flotilla Shipmates of the Co, Ca and Ch-types 1945-1963 are advised of the dedication of a standard displaying the names, Cossack, Constance, Concord, Consort, Contest, Cockade, Comet, Comus, Caesar, Cassandra, Caryslort, Cavalier, Cavendish, Cambrian, Caprice, Carron, Charity and Cheviot. For full details contact

(south) G. Graby, The Nest. Jennings Close, Heacham, Kings Lynn, Norfolk PE1 7SU, or (north) G. Toomey, 184 Bebington Rd, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Wirral L42 4QE. HMS Jaseur Anyone who served 195053 (Far East) a reunion is planned. Please contact Jim Squires on 01707 322912.

HMS Nereide 1952-54, South Africa and Falklands Andy Butt, supply and secretariat mess, would like to contact L/O Ck Tony Fellows, O/Ck Blondie Skeldon, Tony Cobbold (canteen manager), or anyone who knew him. Tel 01273 820686.

Artificer Apprentice entry October 1946 Calling classmates from Exmouth (Fisgard) and Duncan (Caledonia) Divisions.

For details of the 50th anniversary celebrations being held in Plymouth (October 4-6) please contact Ivor Norsworthy, 22 Thornhill Rd, Mannamead, Plymouth PL3 5NE. BRNC term of April 1959 to July 1961 M.R.O. Boardman, P.G.S. Dove, C.J. Hale, A.C. Shepherd, T. Smallwood, W.J. Watts and T.R.R. Woodford are being sought urgently for the 35th reunion, taking place at Greenwich on June 28. Contact N. Morrison, 26 Old Brickfields, Broadmayne, Dorchester DT2 8UY. Tel 01305 853808.

HMS Urchin late 1950s. Ken Cotty is seeking Buster Brown and any other stoker who served with him. Contact Ken on 0151 259 0543 or Stan De'Ath on 01476 860833.

HMS Loch Veyatie K658. Ex-AB Janner Saunders, 5 Barnhay, Bampton, Tiverton, Devon EX16 9NB would like to hear from former shipmates, particularly from the years 1946 to 1948. He would also like to get in touch with classmates from Class 181, HMS Royal Arthur, Skegness.

HMS Gambia far East 1944-47 S. Harrison would like to hear from anyone who remembers Steve Butterworth, ordnance artificer. Steve is to visit this country soon from his home in Australia and a gettogether is hoped for. Contact S. Harrison at Hunting Aviation Ltd, 899 Sqn Box B2, RNAS Yeovilton, llchester, Somerset BA22 8HT. Tel 01935 456022.

HMS Lawford K514 ABs Hegarty and Sid Copeland and a New Zealand shipmate called Scott are being sought by Mr V.E.Bugden, 33 Penlean Close, Mount Ambrose, Redruth, Cornwall TR15 1NU. Tel 01209213442.

HM ships Hound 1958. Torquay, HMS Rothesay and Zulu Mr Frank Bisson, would like to hear from old mates. Tel 01522 722405.

Shipmate Jenkins, last seen HMS Caradoc in Columbo Harbour, Ceylon, early 1945. Please contact Johny (Bucky) van der Merwe, PO Box 71701, Die Wilgers, Pretoria 0041 South Africa. Tel 27 12 802 0208. Fax 27 125299418.

978 Squad RM October 1997 will mark the 50th anniversary of National Service callup for J.D.W. Chase and fellow members.

Nine of the 36 have been traced. The rest are sought for a reunion dinner at the Naval and Military Club in London. Contact Mr Chase at Crossways, 26 Dynevor Gardens, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex SS9 2RG. Tel 01702 75392.

HMS Anson 1942-46. Possible reunion.

Contact Fred Bangert on 01438 352910.

HMS Colossus 1846 Sqn (Corsairs) A/Mech Airframes Cyril Cleminson, called up January 1943 and demobbed May 1946, would like to hear from shipmates and squadron colleagues. Write to 15 Cornwall Rd. Brampton, Ontario, Canada L6W 1M8 "Ping" ratings W. Bettridge, R. Hutchinson, J. McAllister, E.F. Mould and F. Garside are being sought by their shipmate in the Colony-class frigate HMS Papua, A.D. Chuck Mayo, 1 Kirkwood Gdns, 9 Gordon Pirrie Cres, New Germany, Natal, 3610, South Africa. He will be in the UK from August 26 until September 7 and would like to meet up with them if possible.

Will Carol (Pat) and Graham (Bungy) Edwards please get in touch with Joy. Elouise is four now and we've lost touch.

Write to Mrs Joy Penrose-Stupart, c/o Pram Centre, 5 1/2 Dishlandtown Street, Arbroath DD11 1QX.

Algerine Fleet Minesweeper/Fishery Protection Service 1942-62.The Algerines Association, with over 1,600 members, holds regional and national events and publishes a quarterly newsletter. For membership details contact Philip Willis, 5 Forest Drive, Heacham, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE31 7AF. Tel 01485 570115.

HMS Diamond '68 Charlie Newton would like to hear from Jock McEwen or any members of 2FI Mess. Tel 0181 224 2915.

HMS Morecambe Bay Association would like to hear from former officers and crew members of the ship.Contact G. Harrison, 18 Tamella Rd, Botley, Hants SO30 2NY. Tel 01489 787111.

HMS Bother 1942-43 J. O'Brien, a member of the wireless staff, would like to contact shipmates G. Jones, J. Whitehill, J. Nicole, B. Davis, J. Hayes, Cyril P. Barsby, surnames Norris and Ashby, R.F. East, Alfred Miller, Alec Aspinall, J. Smith, S. Smith and G. Wilkinson. Tel 0161 499 2800.

HMS Ceres, Wetherby 1945/6 Robert Harding would be delighted to hear from former cadets on the paymasters course and from Divisional Officer Lt Tammedge RN. Tel 01352761466.

Fleet Air Arm memories are wanted NAVY NEWS is commemorating 50 years of navaj aviation in the jet age with a special supplement in the October edition.

Stories and pictures from WAFUs past and present should be sent to the Editor marked 'Aviation Special'.

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On target for a 50,000 membership WIINNER of the Navy News Mystery Picture competition No. 15 which appeared in our May issue is Mr J. E. Ives of Carnock, Fife.

His entry was drawn at random from replies which identified the photograph of the frigate HMS Rapid. She was sunk as a target in 1981, and the damage shown in the photograph was caused by a ship-launched guided missile.

Mr Ives receives our cash prize of £25. A further prize is offered for a correct solution to this month's puzzle. Tell us: 1. The name of the ship pictured.

2. What made her the first of her kind in the British or dominion navies.

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In Brief MORE than 300 shipmates from Scottish branches attended the rededication of the City of Edinburgh standard, marching through the city to music by the Royal Marines Band Scotland.

TO MARK the retirement of the local Careers Officer, Shipmate Lt Bob Rigby RN, Carlisle branch presented gifts including a flagon of rum. The presentation was made by branch officers Shipmates Steve Rowley, John Winder and John Montgomery.

RECRUITS to City of Glasgow branch should contact the secretary. Shipmate Donald Simpson on 01360 622767, not the misprinted phone number which appeared in our June edition.

WHEN Shipmate Bill Miseldine of Ferndown branch took up residence at Oakdene Nursing Home he was befriended by Harold (Skip) Halfhead who acted as his mentor and guide.

In gratitude the branch have made Skip an honorary member.

NORTHALLERTON branch is proud of their memorial seat in the peace garden of a local park.

The seat, in memory of all members of the maritime forces who made the supreme sacrifice, was presented to the town by branch president, Shipmate Cdr Henry T. Blackston RNVR, who was in turn presented with a branch plaque.

KEITH (Robbie) Robinson, a former CCMEA(H) from Plymouth, wishes Navy News to assure friends and family that he is not the Keith (Robbie) Robinson for whom a memorial was erected by Brecon branch.

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THE ROYAL Naval Association's aim of having 50,000 members on its books by the year 2000 is within sight, following an upbeat report to the RNA's annual conference in Portsmouth.

Presenting the annual report of the Association's National Council, its chairman, Shipmate Ron Tasker, said that membership during the year rose to 44,336, which brought the 50,000 target well within sight.

Five new branches had comance won high praise. missioned, bringing the total to He thanked delegates for 493, including 39 overseas. their support during the very busy and successful year, the Steady flow climax of which was a gala The strengthening bonds reunion at the Royal Albert between the RNA and the Hall in October, followed the Royal Navy at branch and local SHIPMATE John Cowling of next day by a parade and serlevel had led to a steady flow of Corby branch, is the town's vice of remembrance attended full members joining the by 3,500 shipmates with more new mayor. John is also a member of Northants Association on leaving the than 200 standards.

Submarine Old Comrades Service.

• Navy News went to press Association, and his inauAlso, the RNA had enjoyed a with the July edition on June guration was attended by high profile at national and 21, the day before the the standard bearers of local parades and ceremonies both the RNA and SOCA Conference began. A full marking the anniversary of the branches. report will appear in our next end of World War II, and issue.

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Medway honour for campaigner Arthur PRESIDENT and Welfare Officer of Chatham branch, Shipmate Arthur Brown, has been awarded the title Honourable Citizen of Rochester-upon-Medway for his services to the community.

Rochester City Council introduced the award some years ago, and it has been granted to Arthur in recognition of his concern for others and his wide ranging charity work.

He is a vigorous campaigner on behalf of the disabled, besides which he has fought for better housing and improved transport and advises on tenancies and fair rents.

Arthur, who served in the medical branch during World War II, takes a keen interest in health facilities and is an honorary surveyor of the Royal Naval Benevolent Trust home at Pembroke House.

Deal & Walmer The branch entertained Oldham shipmates to a memorable party, joined unexpectedly by a group from Margate branch who were heading home after a day's trip to France. Later, members enjoyed another fine day as guests of Lydd & Dungeness.

Paddock Wood The branch standard was paraded in Belgium during a visit by members to Ostend. Zeebrugge and Bruges to commemorate the Zeebrugge raid in 1918.

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Dartford Branch chairman, Shipmate Ron Hutt, stood down at the annual general meeting after 30 years in the office. He was replaced by Shipmate Ted Dickson with Shipmate Richard Dillon-White elected vice-chairman.

During the year the branch was represented at 34 events and paraded its standard 27 times. A concert by Royal Marines bands at the Orchard Theatre raised £4,000 for charity.

The branch marked its tenth anniversary with a parade and rededication of its standard. Under Shipmate CPOGI Graham Wigley RNR, 18 standards from No. 1 Area were paraded to St Edmund's Church where the service was conducted by the Rev. Eric Ford and attended by the Mayor of Waltham Forest; Iain Duncan-Smith MP; and the Area president, Capt Paddy Vincent RN (retd) who took the salute.

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Romford Shipmates and wives on holiday at Seaton, Devon, held a short service of remembrance on the beach in honour of those who died during Exercise Tiger in 1944. Shipmate Arthur Burrows delivered the exhortation followed by prayers led

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Poppy crosses, each bearing the name of a ship lost, were cast on to the sea, Shipmate Bob Palser - who served in one of the minesweepers involved in the exercise - casting the first.

Double Seven break raises £1,500 A TOTAL of £1,500 for charity was raised during a weekend break at Hayling Island, Hampshire, organised by the Double Seven Committee.

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Honours THE FOLLOWING are recipients of awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours List: KCB - Vice Admiral Jonathan James Tod CB - Rear Admiral John Patrick Clarke LVO. MBE.

CBE - Capt Peter Roland Davies MBE. RN, Commodore Alan Duncan Ferguson, Capt Richard Somerton Wraith.

QBE - Cdr Timothy Harold Boycott. Cdr Alan Kenneth Grant. Cdr Michael Ian Horrell, Cdr Charlotte Elizabeth Manley, Cdr Howard McFadyen. Cdr Richard John Thornton Pallister, Cdr William Ross Rennison.

MBE - Lt Cdr Richard John Charge. WO2 Frank Taylor Connelly RM, WO(RS) Graham Barry Cudmore Local Ma], Edward Grant Martin Davis RM. WO(MEA) Peter David Dismore. Lt Cdr Robin Edward Drewett, CCWEA Wim James Michael Egging, WO1 Colin Frederick Grice RM, WO(WEA) Peter Harris, WO1 John Martin Kimbrey RM, CCWEA Jeflery Paul Lloyd, WO(RS) David Neil Lovatt, Chaplain Brian Richard Madders, Lt Brian Henry Marsh, WO(WEA) Robert Arthur Henry Matthews. WO(CK) Peter McGarrity, Lt Cdr Ian McLaren. WO(MEA) Mervyn James Meekins, CPOMEM(R) Stephen Anthony Morrish, Lt Neil Riches. Lt Harry Charles Roberts. WO(S)(SM) Michael Gerrard Sullivan, WWTR1 Natalie Ruth Swan.

ARRC - Lt Robert Thomas Griflin QARNNS. ACPO ENN(G) Rosemary Louise Webb QARNNS. LVO - Cdr Hugh Blyth Daglish, Cdr Jonathan Mortimer Collingwood Maughan.

RVM(S) - LS(M) Paul Andrew Hale.

ACCMEA John Gordon Mace. Local Acting CPOCY Christopher Ian Plows.

Appointments Rear Admiral Frederick Peter Scourse to be Director General Surface Ships and Acting Controller of the Navy in succession to Vice Admiral Sir Robert Walmsley who has retired. May 1.

Capt A. M. Poulter, to be Captain HMS Neptune. Oct. 2.

Lt Cdr M. R. Skeer, to be Commanding Officer HMS Orkney, Nov. 12.

Lt P. S. Beattie, to be Commanding Officer HMS Arun.

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Lt T. H. Henry, to be Commanding Officer HMS Trumpeter. Oct. 1.

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The Queen has approved the following awards for service in operational theatres: CB - Maj Gen D. A. S. Pennefather QBE RM. MBE - Lt Cdr J. P. Millward. L/Cpl A. J. Gardner RM. QBE - Capt W. M. Walworth RFA.

QCVS - Capt I. A. Forbes CBE. RN. Col D. V. Nicholls RM, First Officer (S) D. Gatenby RFA, Lt D. P. May RM, Lt I. Seabrook RN. CPOAEA(L) J. H. Drummond

Officer promotions THE FOLLOWING officers have been provi sionally selected for promotion with effect from October 1: SPECIAL DUTIES SEAMAN To Commander - R.W. Easton. G. P. Bowen.

To Lieutenant-Commander - N.J. Cooper, L. Richmond (A\Lt Cdr), P.T. Hudson, D.J. Evans, G.K. Jackson. R.M. Saynor. L. Mitchinson, A. Thorburn, W.L. Van-denBergh.

ENGINEERING To Commander - C.C. Leggett, D. Reid MBE.

To Lieutenant-Commander - S.W. Gratton. J.J. Anderson, B.R. Evans (A/Lt Cdr). G.J. Goodings (A/Lt Cdr), T.I. Chamberlain. R.D. Ashton (A/Lt Cdr), H. Bracher. D.J. Rook (A/Lt Cdr). M.A. Langmead. M.R. Peacock, I.N. Swanney, M.J. Buxton, V.W. Dobbin. I.D. Wood. D. Galvin. S. Rodgers, J.A. Mockford. K.P. Cooper. W.C. Fraser.

SUPPLY & SECRETARIAT To Commander - M.J. Anderson.

To Lieutenant-Commander - J.W.T. Bridgeman. K.M. Aitken, R.J. Ewen (A/Lt Cdr), D.F. McGarel.

MEDICAL To Commander - M. Chandler (A/Lt Cdr).

To Lieutenant-Commander A. Murphy

NAVY NEWS looks back through its pages to recall some of the July headlines of past decades...

THE TIME OF YOUR LIVES

(A/Lt Cdr), C.J. Lloyd (A/Lt Cdr), I.e. Coulton.

SEAMAN To Commander - R.A. Doggett. D.A. Lord To Lieutenant-Commander G.J. Corbett. T.A. Conway. B.R. Meakin, M.C. Hibbert. K.A. Bishop. R.D. Creech, C. Brown, P.M. Jefferson, R.E. Bickerton, R.A. Sykes, P.R.J. Munro-Lott. J. Walters. P.R. Hoper.

D.M. Biggs, C.M. Webb, A.A. Attrill. P.M. Wilkinson. A.S.J. Walsh, N.P.B. Armstrong.

S.A. Judd. C.A. Slocombe. N.M. Richardson.

M.A. Salmon.

FEMALE NON-SPECIALISTS To Commander - M.E.J. Hoath.

To Lieutenant-Commander PA Burgoine. J.B.D. Whetton, I.M. Markowski.

AUTHORITY for promotion of the following ratings to Chief Petty Officer was issued by Commodore Naval Drafting in June: OPERATIONS (SEAMAN GROUP) To CPO(M) C.S. Cowan (Dolphin).

To CPO(R) A.G. Mathieson (Cumberland). P.T. Stanley (Drake CBP), J.A. Mitchell (Dryad).

To CPO(S) - S.K. Yates (Monmouth).

To CPO(SEA) - A.G. Wilson (Boxer).

To CPO(EW)(O) - S.L. Howard (Brilliant).

PD. Baker (CINCFLEET EW SGP), M.L. Minall (Dryad).

OPERATIONS (COMMUNICATIONS ) REGULATING AND PT To CPOCY - S.R. Swales (NAVSOUTH Italy). G.V. Cardwell (STANAVFORLANT).

To CPORS W.W. Coates (Collingwood), T. Hutchinson (Birmingham).

MARINE ENGINEERING MECHANICS To CPOMEM(L) - D.J. Weightman (Battleaxe).

To CPOMEM(M) M. Peel (Britannia).

WEAPON ENGINEERING MECHANICS To CPOWEM(O) - N.E. Taylor (CFM Portsmouth), B. Hopwood (Collingwood).

To CPOWEM(R) - M. Williams (Drake CFM). S.T. McGrail (Drake CBS). M.W.

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SUPPLY AND SECRETARIAT To CPOSTD - K.R. Deacon (Endurance).

SUBMARINE SERVICE To CPOSA - N.R.H. Smith (Raleigh).

To CPO(TSSM) - PA. Cotton (CSST Shore Faslane).

MEDICAL To CPOMA - G. John (UKSU AFSouth), A. Foster (Neptune), A.M. Shenton (Britannia), O.K. Lawson (DEF Med Trg Ctr), D. Scarborough (POST Sea). J.D. Dumbreck (Camacchio GP RM).

CPOWDH - Y. Evans (RMS Stonehouse).

FLEET AIR ARM To CPOA(AH) - P. Sharkey (RNAS Culdrose).

To CPOA(PHOT) - P. Cowpe (FOSF Phot Unit).

To CPOACMN - J. Lee (RNU St. Mawgn Sea), A. Gardiner (846 Sqn).

To CPOAEM(M) P.W. Axcell (DGA(N)ASE MASU). G.M. Heath (800 Sqn).

To CPOAEM(R) M.E. Wilde (Seahawk).

To CPOAEM(L) - I.M. Hobbs (Invincible), J.H. Wood (845 Sqn), G.E. Pamflett (814 Sqn). R. Spokes (RNAS Yeovilton), K.S. Firth (702 Sqn Osprey).

ACTING CHARGE CHIEF ARTIFICER Authority was issued by Commodore Naval Drafting in June tor the following ratings to be advanced to Acting Charge Chief Artificer: To ACCMEA - G.A. Rawlings (Exchange Netherlands), R.A. West (Sultan), T. Merrick

20 years ago The end of "hostilities" was reported in the Cod War with Iceland. During the 16-week confrontation over disputed fishing grounds, 21 Royal Navy frigates had been involved and they sufOur front-page picture in July 1956 . . . HMS fered a total of 46 collisions with Icelandic gunScorpion refuels from HMS Eagle during boats. Over 300 veterans of HMS Ganges joined Exercise Mariner, said at the time to be the the last 80 recruits there for the establishment's last parade before closure. largest Allied exercise in history.

ROYAL MARINES To Captain SD - R.T. Cooper (Act. Capt.

RM). J.J. White. J.C. Woods, ST. Anderson.

P.R. Collins. D.A. Greedus, A.M. Maher (Act. Capt. RM), P.W, Thomas.

To Captain SD(B) - P.J. Ruttertord.

(Drake CFM), A. Morrison (CFM Portsmouth), J.A. Connelly (Drake CFM), W.M. Thomas (Supt. of Diving), K. Robinson (Drake CFM). P.J. Boares (Manchester), S.P Maughan (CFM Portsmouth), M.J. Ryan (Neptune NT), G.A.M. Williams (Illustrious).

D. Minhinnett (Ark Royal), M.C. Gushing (FSU 02), C.D. Hatfield (Richmond), A.J. Godfrey (Drake CFM).

To ACCMEASM - R.J. Molt (Superb), G.R. Mills (Sultan). K. Hannah (Vanguard (Stbd). S. Bridgman (Tireless), C.B. Mathews (Talent).

To ACCWEA - PS. Broadbent (DGSS Bristol).

To ACCWEASM - D.W. Bolton (Victorious Port). B.J. Brett (Torbay), G.D. Stephen (Repulse Port), J. Smith (Vanguard Port), C. Waddingham (Superb).

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER ARTIFICER To ACPOMEA - R.S. Burdon (Beaver).

S.P. Dillon (Cornwall), S.G. Loveday (Exeter).

D. MacPherson (Campbeltown), A.B. McGeoch (Resolution Port), D.P. Rose (Intrepid), G.A. Stringer (Captain SM2), I.S. Thompson (FSU 02).

To CPOMEA - M.J. Carter (Triumph). T.S. Clay (Newcastle), M.A. Liddle (York), M.J. Purchase (Sultan), S.C. Southwood (Vanguard Port). M.N. Ward (Captain SM2).

To ACPOAEA • A.D, Harrison (849 Sqn B Fit).

To ACPOWEA N.J Carter (Westminster), S.S. Cheeman (Talent), R.E.F. Miller (Westminster). M.A. Traynor (Victorious Stbd.)

To CPOWEA • J.F. Hughes (Liverpool), M.R. McKenzie (Illustrious), I. Sheppard (Iron Duke), A.J. Stirling (DG Ships CAM Hse).

To CPOMT - TM. Jones (RN Haslar).

Deaths Capt Mike Harvey, served 1927-55. First Lieutenant of HM submarine Undine, sunk off Heligoland, 1940. As POW in Colditz acted as "ghost" by hiding in Castle to make Germans think he had escaped and then after a genuine escape appearing at roll call to make numbers up, delaying German alert.

Ships: St Austell Bay. 1946 (CO), HMS Blackcap. 1955 (CO). May 17. aged 82.

Cdr Peter Player DSC. Engineer Officer and survivor HM submarine Cachalot. Ships: Montclare. Hornet (Gosport). Afrikander.

Aged 83.

Lord Cameron KT. DSC. QC, Senator of College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Sessions. Served in RNVR in WW I & II. Mentioned in Despatches as CO of one of last craft to escape from Dunkirk. DSC for gallantry as lieutenant-commander in Normandy landings. May 31. aged 96.

Lt Cdr Geottrey Hodges GM. VRD. RNVR. member of WWII Rendering Mines Safe organisation (known as the Vernon Suicide Squad) based at HMS Vernon.

Survivor. HMS Abdiel (1943); on D-day staff as mining expert; served in HMS Apollo in Arctic Aged 87.

Lt Cdr G. C. J. (Knocker) Knight MBE. DFC. first senior pilot of 848 NAS. the Navy's first operational helicopter squadron (1953).

Served in WWII and until 1959. Ships and squadrons: Perseus. Theseus. Bulwark, 717.

812, 705, 728C. Member of Association of RN Officers. Aged 74.

Jon Pertwee. served WWII. Actor whose starring roles included Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in BBC Radio's long running comedy The Navy Lark. Ships included Hood, Troutbridge. May 20. aged 76.

Alan Weeks, ex-lieutenant, served 193146. Sports commentator for BBC TV from 1951. Ships: Renown. Rotherm Helmsdale.

June 11. aged 72.

Jack Cotterell, ex-LS Sto Mech. Jutland veteran. June 11. aged 100.

Lt Cdr Geoffrey S. Brown, founder member of Wartime Ark Royals Association, member of Portsmouth Retired Officers' Association.

E. Barnard. ex-Stoker, served 1939-45 on HM trawlers, including Professor Member of London branch of RNPSA. Eric Utting Ships: Glasgow. Brigbury Bay. Member of Glasgow Old Boys' Association. May 8, aged 66.

Albert James Blatch DSM. MID. served 1932 through WWII. Gained DSM as LS in HMS Icarus for skill and courage in submarine hunt.

ASSOCIATION OF RN OFFICERS Lt Cdr R. W. Aldred. Ships: Boy. Barham. Ajax, Grahamsland, Cleveland, Mauritius. Indefatigable. Seafox.

In a live BBC TV programme, pictures were broadcast from a submerged submarine for the first time. The images, from the control room of HMS Tapir were transmitted to the frigate HMS Grenville from where they were relayed to London via a receiving station at St Catherine's Point, then to a TV station at Rowridge, Isle of Wight and finally by landline to London

HMS Ark Royal returned to Plymouth after a year's deployment east of Suez; Sgt Ronald Shellard RM was awarded a Queen's Commendation for bravery for clearing mines in the Radfan area of Aden.

MBE.

ENGINEERING To Commander - W.C. Burgess.

To Lieutenant-Commander - B.L Hill.

C.D. Lias.

SUPPLY & SECRETARIAT To Lieutenant-Commander A.J. Olliver.

INSTRUCTOR To Commander - 1. A. Yuill.

To Lieutenant-Commander - S.W. Hartley. S.A.B. Marston, J.P.E. Dickson.

P.M.C. O'Brien, G. Ashton Jones, T.P. Reynolds. J.E.H. Tooley, R. Clarke.

4Q years ago

30 years ago

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OCB - Lt A. B. Murray RM. PORS(SM) M. A. Taylor.

Capt J. N. Bishop RM. Ships: Colombo.

Theseus. 42 and 45 Cdos.

Rear Admiral P. W. Burnett DSO, DSC, CB. Ships: Euryalus, Jamaica, Kelly, Lt Cdr A. D. Clarkson RD. RNR. Mrs E. E. Couzens QARNNS. Lt Cdr O. T. Gallaway. Ships: St Martin.

Malaya, Sea Serpent, Black Prince, Feltar, Tiree, Steepholm.

Cdr C. P. M. Hart DSC. Ships: Maidstone.

Revenge, Loch Fyne.

Lt Cdr (S) M. F. Hill. Ships: Hampshire.

Scylla.

Lt Cdr (EL) T. V. Lavarack RNVR. HMS Nile.

Lt Cdr (E) D. G. Maitland. Ships: Gambia, Nuthatch, Condor, President.

Lt Cdr (E) S. R. J. Pitman. Ships: Boxer.

Chequers.

Lt C. C. Plumb RNR Capt S. A. Stuart QBE, Ships: Devonshire, Diamond. Dainty, Cossack, St Austell.

Col. P. J. Williams RM. Ships: Meon.

Simbang, MNBDO. ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION The deaths are reported of the following shipmates: Ronald Arthur Heat. Hastings. Ex-PO, served 1942-46 (last ship Lochinvar). April 9.

Percy Walton. Scunthorpe. Ex PO. served 1936-48. Ships: Queen Elizabeth, Belfast, Boreas. April 26. aged 79.

Sid Ball. Nuneaton. Ex-POSM. served 1937-50. Aged 76.

J. Roberts. Kirkby Aged 90.

Les Baines, life member Deeside.

Bill Edwards. Sidoup. May 8, aged 70.

E. Whitemore. Ayr & Prestwick. Ex-RM. Ships: Delhi. Shropshire. Superb. Ark Royal.

Exeter. Member of Exeter Association. April 23.

Sydney Bateman. Portsmouth, member of Russian Convoy Club.

Len Thornton. Walton-on-Naze. Ships included MGB 21. May 8.

Eric Waldie. ex-standard bearer Peterborough & District.

Fred Culling. standard" bearer.

Edinburgh, ex-submariner.

Jean Ebbutt. Dartford. and member of Association of WRNS Fred Bell. Weston & District. Ex-POCK. May 9.

W. J. Johnson. Kidderminster. ex-AB served 1943-47. Ships: Duke of York.

Implacable. Aged 69.

Ronald Alfred Worth. Bourne. May 22. aged 75.

Cyril (Dingle) Girling. Stone & District founder member, lite member and treasurer.

May 27. aged 68.

Points THE FOLLOWING list shows the total points of the men and women at the top of each advancement roster for petty officer and leading rates in July.

Intermediaries (Int) indicates that personnel can be advanced before they are eligible to receive merit points or before the roster can be adjusted to take account of them.

This means that personnel are advanced in "basic date" order. Dates shown against "Int," rosters are the basic dates of the top eligible personnel.

The number following the points (or basic date) is the number of men who were advanced during June.

CCMEAML - 153 (18.4.94), 13; CCMEAEL Dry, 2; CCMEAMLSM - 117 (2.12.94). 5; CCMEAELSM • Dry, Nil. CCWEAADC - Int (26.4.96). 1; CCWEAWDO - Dry. Nil: CCWEAADCSM 197 (20.7.93), 2; CCWEAWDOSM - 286 (19.3.93), 3; CCAEAM - 261 (1.1.93). Nil; CCAEAR - 222 (1.9.93), Nil; CCAEAWL 345(1.5.92), 1.

PO(EW)(O) - 243 (10.11.92), Nil; LS(EW) - 123 (13.7.93), 1; PO(M) - Int (15.2.94). Nil; LS(M) - Int (15.11.94), Nil: PO(R) - 355 (14.1.93), 4: LS(R) - 80 (16.11.93), 4; PO(S) - 89 (16.11.92). Nil: LS(S) - 187 (16.2.93) Nil; PO(D) - 410 (6.12.91). 1: LS(D) - 460 (15.3.91), 10; PO(MW)(O) - Int (15.3.94), 1; LS(MW) - 285 (10.3.92). Nil: PO(SR) - 462 (7.6.91), Nil; LS(SR) - 187 (16.2.93), 2; PO(SEA) -473 (15.3.91), 2.

POCY - 470 (4.12.90), 3; LRO(T) - 472 (12.3.91), 3; PORS 442 (4.6.91). 11; LRO(G) - 254 (9.6.92). 7; POPT - 352 (11.2.92), Nil: RPO - 428 (5.3.91), Nil; POMEM(L)(GS) Dry , 1; LMEM(L)(GS) • Int (5.10.95), 8: POMEM(M)(GS) - 521(20:12.90), 16; LMEM(M)(GS) - 310 (19.12.91), 17; POWEM(0)(GS) - 147 (4.5.93), 4; LWEM(O)(GS) - 78 (17.11.93), 30; POWEM(R)(GS) - 169 (2.3.93), Nil; LWEM(R)(GS) - 164 (6.4.93), 5.

POCA - 466 (20.6.91), 2; LCH(GS) - 378 (17.9.91). Nil; POSTD(GS) - 655 (23.5.90), Nil; LSTD(GS) - 136 (17.6.93). 4; POSA(GS) - 450 (6.8.91). 2; LSA(GS) - 141 (17.6.93), 8; POWTR(GS) - 224 (21.1.93), 15; LWTR(GS) - 160 (7.7.93). 24; POMA - 79 (9.11.93). 11; LMA - Int (14.3.95), 22: PO(S)(SM)(0) - 419 (31.10.91). Nil; LS(S)(SM) - 536 (9.10.90), Nil; PO(TS)(SM) - 346 (25.3.92). Nil; LS(TS)(SM) - 261 (24.6.92). Nil; PORS(SM) - 486 (12.3.91). Nil; LRO(SM) - 334 (11.2.92). Nil; POMEM(L)(SM) - 343 (12.11.91). Nil; LMEM(L)(SM) 120 (24.6.93). 2; POMEM(M)(SM) - 511 (5.10.90). 6: LMEM(M)(SM) - 98 (23.9.93). 8: POWEM(R)(SM) - 243 (3.11.92), Nil; LWEM(R)(SM) 585 (25.6.90), Nil; POSA(SM) - 241 (6.10.92). Nil; LSA(SM) 192 (18.2.93), Nil; POWTR(SM) - 202

(12.3.93), 1; LWTR(SM) - 330 (9.3.92). Nil; POCA(SM) - Dry. Nil; LCH(SM) - 602 (29.7.90). Nil; POSTD(SM) - 601 (9.5.90), Nil;LSTD(SM) - 1161 (16.6.87), Nil. POA(AH) - 1048 (30.1.87). 10; LA(AH) 824 (20.5.88). 14; POA(METOC) - Int (27.2.96), Nil; LA(METOC) - Int (7.10.94), 2; POA(PHOT) • 690 (3.10.89). Nil; POA(SE) 756 (16.6.89), 1; LA(SE) - 381 (27.7.91), 3; POACMN - 504 (8.11,90), 1; POAEM(M) 267 (2.7.92). 6; LAEM(M) - 444 (31.1.91).

10: POAEM(R)- Int (21.4.94), 1; LAEM(R) 418 (23.7.91), 4; POAEM(L) - 464 (9.3.91), 2; LAEM(L)-334 (27.11.91), 12; POAC - Int (26.3.96), Nil; POW(R) - 329 (10.3.92), 1: LW(R) - Dry, Nil; POW(RS) - 629 (13.3.90), 5: LWRO - 608 (5.6.90), 4; POWPT - 481 (6.7.91), Nil; RPOW - 324 (10.3.92), Nil; POWCA - Int (15.6.95). Nil; LWCH - 125 (10.7.93). Nil; POWSTD - 741 (22.11.88), Nil; LWSTD - 321 (18.6.92). 1; POWSA - Int (8.3.94), 3; LWSA - 227 (22.10.92). Nil. POWWTR - 178 (27.4.93), Nil; LWWTR 100 (31.8.93). Nil: POWWTR(G) - Int (15.2.96), Nil; POW(METOC) - Dry, Nil; LW(METOC) - Dry, Nil; POW(PHOT) • 261 (25.2.92), Nil; POWAEM(M) - Dry, Nil; LWAEM(M) - Dry, Nil; POWAEM(R) - Dry Nil; LWAEM(R) - 448 (28.3.91), Nil; POWAEM(WL) - 787 (9.3.89), Nil; LWAEM(WL) - 234 (23.7.92), Nil; POWETS 754 (10.12.89), Nil; LWETS - 217 (22.9.92), Nil; LWTEL - 649 (14.3.89), Nil; POWWA 209 (28.10.92), Nil; LWWA - 334 (30.10.91), Nil: POWDHYG- 134(6.11.91), 1; POWDSA - Dry, 1; LWDSA - Int (6.10.95), 1; POEN(G) - Int (11.1.94). Nil; LEN(G) - Int (8.2.92), Nil. PONN - 195 (12.1.93), 3; POMA(Q) - Int (10.5.94). 3; LMA(Q) • 225 (8.9.92), 6; PO(AWW) Dry. Nil; LOM(AWW) - Int (12.4.95), 1; PO(AWT) - Dry, Nil; LOM(AWT) - Int (18.8.95). Nil; PO(UW) - Dry, Nil; LOM(UW) - Int (16.5.95), Nil; PO(EW) • Dry, Nil: LOM(EW) - Int (12.9.95), 2; PO(MW) Dry, Nil: LOM(MW) - Int (14.3.95), 2; PO(C) Int (11.10.94), Nil; LOM(C) • Int (9.8.95), 1; PO(SSM) - 200 (18.2.93), Nil; LOM(SSM) Int (21.10.95), Nil; PO(TSM) - 141 (8.6.93), Nil; LOM(TSM) - Int (29.6.95), Nil; PO(CSM) - 480 (12.3.91), Nil; LOM(CSM) - Int (12.9.95), Nil: PO(WSM) - 359 (7.1.92), 1; LOM(WSM)-534 (14.10.90), 1.

The basic dates quoted for the female ratings in the following categories, which have no examination for the next higher rate, are applied in accordance with BR1066 Chapter 22: POWOA - 441 (3.12.92), Nil: POWTEL 520(15.8.92), Nil. It should be noted that the number of B13s issued in the female categories are those advanced from the female shore roster.This does not include May C281 points.

Swop drafts LSTD A. J. Jones. HMS Endurance.

BFPO 212. will swop for any Portsmouth ship, except Type 23. deploying or not.

STD O'Brien. SEP Mess. HMS Invincible.

BFPO 308. ext 450. Will swop for any shore base in London, Portsmouth. Plymouth area or Portsmouth/Plymouth ship not deploying.

CMEM(M) Arnold. HMS Warrior ext 38367 or SRs Mess, drafted HMS Fearless.

Dec. 9. deploying next year. Will swop for any Portsmouth ship not deploying.

STD1 J. R. Kelley. 3E Mess. HMS Edinburgh. BFPO 277. will swop for any ship deploying after Sept.

POWEA(OC) R. J. Crane (air weapons), POs Mess, HMS Edinburgh, BFPO 277 (deploying). Will swop for any non-deploying or short deployment ship.

LMEM(M) Holgate. LMEMQC 19, HMS Sultan, drafted HMS Illustrious. Jan. Will swop for any Portsmouth ship not deploying.

MAO Muir, A3 Ward. Royal Hospital Haslar, ext 2146, will swop for any sickbay in Portsmouth area.

MEM(M) Rae (Scale B). HMS Illustrious.

BFPO 305, deploying next year. Will swop for any Portsmouth Type 42 not on same deployment.

SA A. R. Gilkinson. SEP Mess. HMS Illustrious. BFPO 305, deploying next year.

Will swop for Portsmouth area shore draft.

MEM(M)1 R. Cleland (Scale B). 6F3 Mess. HMS Invincible. BFPO 308. will swop for any Plymouth ship deploying or not.

MEM(M)1 Fewell. EM2 Group, HMS Nelson. Portsmouth Naval Base ext 25086. drafted HMS Lancaster, Aug. Will consider any Portsmouth/Plymouth area draft.

LMEM(M) Watson. HMS Liverpool, BFPO 327. deploying next year. Will consider any Faslane-ba ied sea draft.

WSA Mayne. HMS Raleigh ext 41230. drafted NCG Portsmouth. Will swop for any Devonport area shore base.

POSTD W. A. Alderson. POs Mess.

HMS Invincible. BFPO 308. will swop for any Portsmouth ship, preferably Type 42. deploying or not.

SA Penny, Stores Office, HMS Invincible.

BFPO 308, drafted RNAS Portland. Sept. 9.

Will swop for any Portsmouth draft.

WEM(O)1 O. J. Whitehall. EM2 Group.

Portsmouth Naval Base ext. 22009. will swop for any Plymouth sea or shore draft.

LWSA Hill. HMS Sultan ext. 2268, drafted HMS Neptune, Aug. Will swop for any other shore draft.

LMEM(M) A. Tamblin. HMS Liverpool.

BFPO 327. will swop for any Devonport ship deploying or not.

SA Collett, HMS Battleaxe. BFPO 223. drafted RNAS Portland, Sept. Will swop for any Portsmouth shore base.

SA1 Brown, 3Q Mess. HMS Brave.

BFPO 233, drafted RNAS Portland. Aug. 20.

Will swop for any Plymouth shore base.

OM(EW)1 Timberlake, (contact via Lt Lynch, HMS Dryad ext. 4513). drafted HMS Nottingham, June. Will swop for any Far East deployment unit.

MEM(M)1 C. S. Weeks, 3N Mess, HMS Glasgow. BFPO 287, drafted HMS Illustrious, Oct. Will swop for any non-deploying Portsmouth ship.

AB(M) Robinson, 3Q Mess, HMS Birmingham, BFPO 228 (until Aug. 97), will swop for any Plymouth ship or shore base.

SA1 D. Thompson, HMNB Portsmouth ext. 23398/27546. drafted HMS Fearless, Sept 10. Will consider any Portsmouth ship deploying or not.

SA Stewart, HMS Ark Royal (HMNB Portsmouth ext 22864), drafted HMS Cardiff end of July (refit, Rosyth). Will swop for another Portsmouth ship.

OM(AW) I. Robinson (SSCS trained).

HMS Norfolk BFPO 344, will swop for any Portsmouth ship, preferably not deploying.

MEM(M)1 Clarke. HMS Herald. BFPO 296, deploying Jan. Will consider any Devonport ship, preferably not deploying.

MEM(M) Mugford, HMS Herald BFPO 296, deploying Jan. Will consider any swop, deploying or not. butpreferably Devonport Type 23.

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subject of Design and Technology forming a key part of the secondary school curriculum, there is a widespread need for people with the skills and enthusiasm to teach it The BEd Design and Technology degree programme at King Alfred's College, Winchester, has been specially devised for mature students, enabling them to develop the ability to teach across the whole spectrum of rigid materials and graphic media, and to gain in-depth knowledge of electronic and control aspects of the subject.

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Experience "Contrary to popular belief, applicants to the course don't need to have extensive design and technology expertise, just some experience of working with materials and components, a desire to work with and help young people, and good skills in problem solving, communication and project management", said Ian Mittell, Head of Design and Technology at the College.

Twenty weeks of the course are spent in the College's well equipped workshops and studios, gaining practical experi-

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FEMALE 24 GSOH seeks single serviceman for friendship. Photo appreciated. BOX JLY2.

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TRACY WOULD like contact by post with Naval Personel. BOX JLY 11.

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ATTRACTIVE S.E. ASIAN nurse seeks officer 40-50, for lasting relationship. BOX JLY 15.

THREE BORED sailors seek females for letters, fun and games.

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REDHEAD 35 single cheerful sincere seeks single honest male friendship plus. BOX JLY 22 COURTEOUS LADY would like to hear from senior male officers BOX JLY 23.

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Cricket healthy despite dozen missing caps THE ROYAL Navy cricket team skippered by CPO Paul Barsby from (Sultan) achieved several victories last month despite the unavailability of a dozen capped players, writes Lt Cdr Jim Danks.

The team prevailed over the powerful MCC Young Cricketers, the English Fire Service and Incogniti as well as earning the better of a draw with Oxford University.

The Free Foresters dismissed the Navy for 71 in the first match of the season, winning by eight wickets after some excellent bowling by Trigger who took 7-25 in 12 overs, but the Navy team bounced in their next match.

Incogniti were the next visitors to Portsmouth and the Navy won by 4 wickets in the 8th over of the last 20 making 272 for 6.

Century The highlight of the RN's performance was an excellent partnership of 172 between CPO Barsby and Mne Andy Proctor who was caught for a superb 126, reaching 50 from 37 balls and his century from 67 balls in 81 minutes.

Barsby was 58 not out and was well supported by Lt Chris Slocombe (848 NAS) in an unbroken stand of 48.

Incogniti 146 and 170-6 dec. Royal Navy 46-0 dec and 272 for 6.

The Navy raised their performance when visiting Vine Lane Uxbridge to achieve a rare victory over the MCCYC. A brilliant display in the field reduced the MCCYC to a lunchtime score of 122 for 7 which included three run outs in 40 overs

Navy team are top side down under CROSS Country runners representing the Royal Navy in a tour of New Zealand had a comfortable win in the NZ Air Force Trial, dominating the field with six in the first eight runners at Whenuapai.

LCpl Gary Gerrard and Mne Mark Croasdale broke away early on, leaving Lt Cdr Dai Roberts an isolated third ahead of the first NZAF runner.

The team are taking on the Takapuna Harriers next before moving South for the Interservices championships.

Meanwhile, Mne Croasdale took time out from the tour to win the Papakura half marathon in Auckland.

and an all out score of 135.

Cpl Andy Hurry (CTCRM) returning to the Navy team was the pick of the bowlers with 3 for 30 from 11 overs.

Mid Peter Andrews (BRNC) with 71 not out saw the Navy to a convincing 7 wicket win in the 38th over with good support from POWTR Kevin Norwood (St Vincent) 24 in an opening stand of 52 and Paul Barsby 21 in an unbeaten stand of 58 for the third wicket giving the Navy an eight wicket victory.

MCCYC 139. Royal Navy 142 for 2.

At Oxford, the RN nearly pulled off a thrilling victory when after declaring on 230 for 8 they had the University reeling at 174 for 8 when stumps were drawn.

The Navy were well placed at 170 for 3 with Lt Alistair Falconer (819 NAS) making 65 and AEM Darren Harrison (845 NAS) 43.

The Navy lost wickets as they tried to accelerate and declared 230 for 8 in 56 overs.

Oxford started well to reach 138 for 3 in 35 overs before the Navy made inroads to lower order batsmen. Hurry and Proctor shared the brunt of the attack. Hurry 426, and Bredan Regan 2-35 caused problems but the 9th wicket pair held on to deny the Navy a rare victory in the Parks.

Royal Navy 230-8 dec. Oxford University 174-8. Match drawn Batting first against the Fire Service, the Navy recovered from 88 for 4 to reach 211 from 8 at the end of 55 overs, a target which owed much to a stand of 72 between CPO Stuart Adams (HMS Resolution) 41 and Cpl Hurry 40.

The Fire Service replied with 62 for 2 in the first 25 overs but the tea interval proved to be a tonic for Navy bowlers as they claimed 8 wickets for 53 runs, bowling the Fire Service out for 115 and a surprise 96-runs victory.

Debut Mne Proctor took 3-23, Simon Morris 3-29 and LRO Bredan Regan (HMS Dolphin) 2-20. AB Steve Miles (HMS Raleigh) in his first appearance bowled 7 overs for just 8 runs.

Royal Navy 211-8. Fire Service 115.

In the first fixture between the RN and Midland CCC at Solihull the home side batted steadily to reach 151 all out in 50 overs and Andy Hurry bowled an excellent 5 -25 in 10 overs.

The RN never recovered from losing half their side for 18 before a dogged innings by Ck Mark Toogood (HMS Osprey) who batted for 100 minutes and 28 by Paul Barsby with an unbeaten stand of 33 between Lt Morris (COMDEV) and CPO Neil Me Master (HMS Sultan) taking the RN to 120-9 to leave the Midlands CCC winners by 31 runs.

Midlands CCC 151 Royal Navy 120.

In brief Williams is fastest off the blocks NAVY sprinter PO Rupert Williams dominated the 100m and 200m events at the RN Athletics team's Southern League fixture at Basildon.

During the cold and windy meeting he took maximum points in two close races and will be hard to beat in the Navy Championships.

Pole vault The RN Women's Volleyball team in action with POWren Anne Richardson (left) Wren Jill Balloch picture: FOSF Photographic unit (centre) and team captain CWren Julie Frowen.

Volleyball stars shine brightest THE RN Women's Volleyball team topped a highly successful year with a convincing victory in the Interservices Championships at the Army School of Physical Training at Aldershot.

After just two seasons in the national league the team have won 22 of their 24 matches winning promotion to National League Division Two, and they were on top form for the Interservices.

The first match against the RAF was as much a battle of nerves as volleyball skill with the Navy taking the first two sets and looking ready for a three set victory.

But the RAF clinched the third set and played strongly in the fourth. The Navy pulled back and won the last set to the delight of a large crowd including the Army team who cheered the RN on.

The Navy's match against the new Army team, playing together for the first time in such a competition, produced some good volleyball but was a much easier game with an RN victory in three sets.

Neptune retains canoe polo title HMS NEPTUNE squeezed out Hie Royal Marines to retain the RN Canoe Polo title at the RN Championship held ill HMS Raleigh.

In a spectacular and very open final both sides played a fast, controlled game, Neptune quickly opened up a two-goal advantage which the Marines tried valiantly to overturn.

But Neptune replied with well taken chances and the Marines were unable to catch up, with the final score at 6-4.

Plymouth and Portsmouth battled It out for 3rd and 4th. Plymouth gave their all but in a game dominated by the play of LAEM Gusterton Portsmouth Command forced the errors and went on to win 2-0.

Special mention goes to the teams from Plymouth, HMS Sea hawk and Southampton URNU and the RN Ladies Squad who made a substantial impact to their first ever competition, helping to make it a very close run event

The selected players were: Team Captain CWrcn Julie Frowen (HMS Sultan) S/Lt Nicky Platt (Nelson) POWren Debbie Vout and LWren Kathy Entwistle (Collingwood) POWren Anne Richardson (FOSF) Wren Jill Balloch (Dolphin) Mid Natasha Miller (BRNC Dartmouth) Reserves LWren Wendy Creighton (Seaton Barracks) POWren Sally Matthews with thanks to LWren Laura Gower, formerly FOSF, who was no longer eligible but played with the team for several years.

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THE RN FENCING championships at RM Poole were dominated by four competitors who were all on top form.

In the men's competition, the limelight was stolen

by Lt Adrian Olliver, who after years of coming second, had a well-deserved victory in the foil, and also managed to snatch the Dismounted Champion at Arms title from AEM Mark Needham, who won both Sabre and Epee.

Lt Cdr Maggie Myers RNR won both the foil and the Epee competitions as usual, but faced a very close barrage from CWren Claire Saunders.

Wilkinson Sword Lt Katja Samuel achieved her potential with an easy victory with in the Sabre and she also won the Ladies Dismounted Champion at Arms. Lt Samuel and Lt Olliver will compete against the other Services in the Wilkinson Sword competition at the Royal Tournament.

The Intercommand title was won by Plymouth, favourites with both Adrian Olliver and Maggie Myers on the team.

Golfers struggle in Yorkshire dales HOPING to add to their earlier success against Cornwall, the Navy golf team found a young but extremely talented North Yorkshire team too strong for them in their annual encounter played over the May bunk holiday weekend, writes Cdr Gary Skins.

The match was played at Hcadingley course in Leeds, which although not excessively long, was particularly strenuous and presented a number of problems in the subtlety of its design and the many side hill lies.

The match provided debut opportunities for CPO Phil Rees ( H M S B i r m i n g h a m ) and Lt Peter Smith (DRA Malvern.) Although the latter had participated in the recent overseas US tour to the USA. this was the first home soil appearance.

The morning foursomes produced some closely fought matches with the partnerships of Rees and Lt Cdr Pat Lynch

(FONA) and POPT Bill Stretton (RNAS Yeovilton) with CPO Adam Wheeler (SDG Plymouth) taking their opponents virtually the full 18 holes. However, the only pre-lunch win came from current Navy champion Art App Terry Taylor (HMS Sultan) and his veteran partner CPO Eddie Comerford (HMS Caledonia.)

Eager opponents With the rain starting to fall heavily and a mountain to climb in the afternoon singles, the Navy team suffered badly at the hands of their eager young opponents. Smith managed a fighting halved match, but team captain Lt Cdr Ian Yuill DCTS(N) was the only winner.

It was a disappointing result overall but the team, in particular the newcomers, learned what a large step it is between club golf and play at this level.

Once again the Navy was made to feel very welcome in this most hospitable of counties and the club were very accommodating hosts.

The disappointments continued the following weekend when a team of four competed in the prestigious Graham Butler Trophy at Ferndown. Regrettably neither pairing of Stretton/CPO Taff James, NAS Portland, nor Taylor/Lt Steve Roberts, NAS Yeovilton, played to anything like their capabilities and the team languished near the bottom of the order.

Participation in the equivalent event next year will depend on other invitees declining.

At the time of writing, only one week remains before the Navy Strokcplay Championships at Letham Grange, Arbroath and with only one or two exceptions most contenders will be available to challenge Terry Taylor for his title. A full report is planned for the August's Navy News .

Other notable performances came from Eamon Martin and John Potts in the 1500m and from the team's two pole va utters, with Dave Alcock making 3m and Dave Bonsall clearing 2.4m to finish second in the A and B strings respectively.

Mountain bike date MOUNTAIN bikers are invited to take part in the Portsmouth Command Championships at Longmore Army Camp near Petersfield on July 28.

Competitors will tackle a sevenmile circuit over heath and woodland at Weavers Down with sport and master categories completing three laps and novices and females two.

Inspection The course will be open for inspection from 1200 to 1600 on Saturday July 27 and race registration starts at 0800 on July 28.

The entry fees of between ÂŁ4 and ÂŁ7.50 also provides insurance and prizes. For details and an application form, contact Lt Gavin Edward, RN&RMCA General Secretary, The Wardroom, HMS Collingwood, Newgate Lane, Fareham POM 1AS. Telephone 93825 2206 (MOD) or 01329 555155.

Earl's XI win on final ball THE COMBINED Services Cricket match against the Earl of Arundel's XI provided some exhilarating cricket for a large crowd of spectators.

CS got off to a good start with the new team captain Mark Bray completing an innings of 64, and after a frustrating middle order David Matthews and Andy Spiller steadied the ship and declared at 231 for nine.

The Earl's XI looked comfortable at 163 for one with Richard Greatorex wreaking havoc with 102 from 67 balls, but after some extremely good bowling by CS the Earl's XI were 228 for eight.

Making ground With three balls ten and four runs needed to win the onus was on Maj Gen Jack Deverell, President of Army cricket.

The final delivery skied massively towards long on and produced a cry of "three off this!" Throws to both ends were not good enough to prevent the General making his ground and the Earl's XI sealed victory off the last ball of the match.

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A MAJOR marketing campaign is being proposed to attract a younger and larger audience to Navy Days, held in alternate years at Portsmouth and Plymouth.

Changes in the running of the event are being made in the light of a continuing downward trend in attendance figures for the three-day show, held traditionally during bank holiday weekends in May or August.

This year Portsmouth's "gate" was, at

little over 23,700, one of the lowest the base has ever experienced. The slump in numbers - almost half the attendance at Portsmouth in 1995 - follows a trend of diminishing public interest over the past 15 years.

The figures could not have been helped this year by the Fleet's heavy operational commitments which meant that only four of its major warships and three minor war vessels were open to the public, supplemented by four foreign ships.

In the light of that, planning for Navy Days from 1998 will be conducted by the Second Sea Lord, and warship programmes will be arranged more than two years in advance to ensure that sufficient vessels are available for the event, said Navy Days secretary at Portsmouth, Lt Cdr Peter Vale.

"The attendance this year was disappointing, and we are having to look at a new market," he told Navy News. "We're hoping to have a major marketing campaign the year after next to draw in

some new blood by targeting young people and families from outside the area."

Such a campaign could cost up to £30,000, but the expenditure could prove worth it. The last time a modest marketing campaign was tried at Portsmouth it lifted attendance out of the doldrums to 74,000 in 1989.

Any proposed marketing campaign is likely to be a main item on the agenda of a high-level planning meeting due to be held in October.

PEAC FORC TOGO A ROYAL NAVY task group led by the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious will leave for the Far East and Australasia in the largest long-range deployment for five years.

Dubbed Ocean Wave 97, the eight-month deployment will begin in mid-January, and ships of the group will be available to help in the withdrawal of the last elements of the British garrison from Hong A THREATENED strike by perKong. sonnel operating Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service vessels has been averted through negotiation.

The tugs and other port support vessels of the RMAS are due to be taken over under contract this summer by the company SERCo/Denholm. Concern about job security by members of the Service led to a 24-hour strike being planned for June 17, but this was cancelled following talks between the Transport and General Workers Union, SERCo/Denholm and the Ministry of Defence.

Polaris ceremony FORMER Polaris submarine crew members and support staff are invited to the unveiling of a monument to them at the Clyde Naval Base, Faslane on August 28.

Those wishing to attend should sens a stamped addressed envelope to the Polaris Ceremony Manager, RN Strategic Systems School, HMNB Clyde, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, G48 8HL.

About a dozen warships and auxiliaries will make up the force under the Commander UK Task Group, Rear Admiral Alan West.

Submarines The self-sustainable force will include destroyers, frigates, submarines, an amphibious element and auxiliaries of the RFA. Two or three of the ships will be available for the Hong Kong role.

Announcing the deployment, Minister of the Armed Forces Nicholas Soames said its purpose was to demonstrate Britain's continuing ability to deploy such a force put of the NATO area for a significant period, and to contribute to promoting our wider interests through maintenance of international peace and stability.

The ships will take part in exercises and joint training with regional navies. Ocean Wave 97 will also be a chance to demonstrate British defence technology to potential buyers worldwide during the 40 courtesy visits by vessels of the task group.

AS HMS Brave was returning from a record-breaking, drugbusting deployment as West Indies Guardship, her relief, HMS Argyll was involved in her first successful anti-drug operation in the Caribbean.

Barely ten days after taking over from Brave on May 14, HMS Argyll under her commanding officer, Cdr George Zambellas, recovered £2.5 million of cocaine from a vessel spotted by the ship's Lynx helicopter.

The crew of the craft were later arrested by officers of the US Coast Guard.

£150m haul HMS Brave returned to Devonport on June 10 after her seven-month deployment. During that time she was involved in the seizure of 4.5 tonnes of cocaine worth more than £150 million on the streets. It was the largest amount that any British warship has helped to recover in the region.

Her eventful deployment, under her CO, Cdr Tony Johnstone-Burt, also involved in aiding the inhabitants of the island of Mpntserrat, threatened by an erupting volcano.

At sea, she saved eight lives four Jamaican fishermen and four French people adrift in small vessels in two separate incidents.

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£120k takings make bands' show a record A RECORD £120,000 was raised by the massed bands of the Royal Marines at what is generally regarded as the most successful Beat Retreat ceremony ever held.

The three evening performances by more than 260 musicians on Horse Guards Parade was virtually a ticket sell-out. The proceeds, in aid of charity, were almost double those raised by the last Beat Retreat in London in 1991, and exceeded those raised by the Marines' big annual band event, the Mountbatten Festival of Music.

The performances on June 1113 to mark the 75th birthday of the Captain General of the Corps, the Duke of Edinburgh, were also the

first Beat Retreat ceremonies by the massed bands to include women musicians, 16 of them playing at the event.

Millions of TV viewers watched the ceremony on the evening it was attended by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. In a live broadcast, the BBC were able for the first time to give viewers a Marines-eye perspective of the event — by installing a small camera in the helmet of a clarinetist, C/Sgt David Sharp.

Proceeds from the performances will be further boosted through an agreement with the BBC which allows the Royal Marines rights to sell the videotape. It will be marketed later this year and widely advertised.

STAND-DOWN • From front page staff of NATO's Commander Naval Forces South at Naples.

Fifteen British frigates and destroyers have taken part in the operation since it began. As well as Nottingham (two deployments) Sharp Guard participants have included HM ships Cardiff, Edinburgh, Chatham, Brilliant, Campbeltown (twice), Battleaxe, Brazen, Birmingham, Beaver, Southampton, Coventry (twice), Cumberland and Glasgow.

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THE PRINCE of Wales chats with CCMEA Simon Mallett during his visit to HMS Sultan, the Navy's Marine and Air Engineering School at Gosport.

Prince Charles toured the establishment on May 30 to meet staff, trainees and families. His itinerary included Sultan's newest buildings - the Officer Training Centre in Pillar Building and the Air Engineering and Survival Department in Daedalus Building.

Jingle winner BRITISH Forces Broadcasting Service triumphed at the New York Festival by winning one of only five Grand awards in the worldwide competition. BFBS, the forces radio service produced by the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, won the award for the best promotion spot - its jingle package.

A winning smile for the Duke at the Royal Marines Beat Retreat ceremony on Horse Guards Parade, held to mark Prince Philip's 75th birthday.

Picture: PO(PHOT) Dizzy de Silva

THE RESERVE Forces Bill has received Royal Assent and will come into effect in April after further consultation. The Act will widen frontline use of Reservists in peacetime and safeguard their civilian jobs during call-out.

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THE POPULARITY of the awe-inspiring Field Gun Competition may be judged by the fact that it is one of the most enduring displays in the history of the Royal Tournament. Many times during the past 300 years Naval guns have been landed in support of the Army - and the 12-pounder field guns used in the Royal Tournament race were carried by all Britain's major warships until the late 1920s.

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The competition - now fought out by crews from Portsmouth, Devonport and the Fleet Air Arm - was first introduced to the Tournament in 1907 and though the idea may seem dated, the qualities of courage, fitness, determination, spirit and teamwork demonstrated by the gunners are as important as ever in today's Navy.

Speed The speed with which the guns are dismantled, manoeuvred over a testing obstacle course, reassembled and fired may give a false impression of ease, but the total weight of each gun is over one ton and the smallest error can bring about disaster.

What also is remarkable is that the three, 18-men crews, volunteers from all branches of the Service, have less than three months to train before the Tournament begins.

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Military Tournament and Assault at Arms opened at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, only the Army were involved during the first 17 years of the event.

The first true display - a musical ride by the 1st Life Guards - was introduced into the 1882 event, and two years later Queen Victoria became patron and gave permission for the Royal prefix to be added to the title.

Navy's debut The Royal Navy first took part in 1897, though it was not until 1905 that the show was retitled the Royal Naval and Military Tournament, moving from its Islington venue to Olympia the following year.

No shows were held during World War I, but the tournament was revived in 1919 and included the new, third Armed Force, the RAF. The event adopted its present title the following year.

Another break in performances was

enforced in 1940-46, but when the shows began again there was redoubled public interest and a demand for seats which far exceeded the capacity of Olympia. As a result, in 1950, the Tournament moved for the second time in its history - to its present venue.

Today - with almost 100 years of Navy family entertainment and at the same time a display of the pageantry, skill and courage of the Armed Forces.

The Tournament opening this year will be "From the Sea" followed by the musical spectacle of the massed bands of the Royal Marines.

Later, ambitious special effects will suspend belief as they take the spectators "under water" to a 300ft long representation of a submarine extending from the backcloth while Royal Marines Commandos in Rigid Raiders prepare to mount a cliff assault.

Other tough, disciplined young men from Portsmouth, Devonport and the Fleet Air Arm will perform one of the Tournament's most abiding events - the Field Gun Run, while a less regular display at Earls Court is provided by the RN Window Ladder team, inviting audience participation in an aerobics session.

The display team and all the Marines will join together to present the finale, final sunset and salute from the past.

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'Pompey Boys' have a sense of purpose THE SENSE of purpose and camaraderie of the "Pompey Boys" will take them a long way.

This year's administration is hallmarked by relaxed professionalism - Lt Mike Young's experience with the Royal Marines has prepared him well for the forthright, action centred environment of the Field Gun. First Trainer this year is Warrant Officer Dennis Moffat a veteran of four silver medal winning Portsmouth crews. A consummate professional, he is more than willing to demonstrate any position or piece of drill.

Like WO Moffat, the Second Trainer, Petty Officer PT Tom Dooley, was also a member of Portsmouth's 1984 crew, holders of the run record of 2 minutes 40.6 seconds.

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Talented new blood in west DEVONPORT crew got off to a good start this year by recruiting quality men from their winning crews of 1993 and 1994, as well as some talented new blood.

A Field Gun Crew commissioning ceremony - unique to

Devonport - was held at HMS were out on the track for the Drake on May 2. first time and have continued It took the form of a parade, training well, with high morale at which the salute was taken and good prospects. by the Lord Mayor, and a serEarlier, staff and crew undervice at St Nicholas Church. took an eight-mile charity run On the following Bank with the field gun and limber, Holiday Monday the gunners culminating with a "jog past"

through Plymouth city centre where the salute was taken by the Deputy Lord Mayor and Devonport Naval Base Commander, Commodore Jonathan Burch.

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Cornwall. With that and other movement of essentials, as well as preparation of the new quarters, the gunners' "closed season" has actually been very busy.

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A landing craft sinking after being hit during the Allied landings at Walcheren late in 1944. Marines suffered heavy casualties in the operation against the strongly held German positions covering the Scheldt Estuary.

Royal Marines march into Stanley to end the Falklands War. In this case they are members of the company who at the beginning of the campaign had attempted to hold the capital against the Invading Argentlnlans.

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USIC has been an important part of life at sea for hundreds of years - drums to beat to quarters, fiddlers to accompany the arduous task of capstan hauling, and to entertain during precious hours of relaxation.

The Royal Marines have had bands since the birth of the Corps in 1664, while the famous divisional bands of Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham could trace their

histories back to the 18th century. But it was not until 1950 - when the divisional bands amalgamated with the Royal Naval Band Service - that today's Royal Marines Band Service emerged.

Marines musicians are unique in the British Armed Forces by haying to master a string and a wind instrument so that the bands are capable of performing as full concert orchestras.

The roots of the bands' achievements lie in the meticulous training that musicians

and buglers receive at the Royal Marines School of Music - which started life as the RN School of Music in 1903.

In 1930 the School moved to Deal where, barring a period of evacuation to Scarborough during World War II, it remained until this year.

Portsmouth move Rationalisation of Defence bases brought the School to HMS Nelson in Portsmouth.

There, the skills of young musicians continue to be tempered and honed to the sharpest edge before they take their place in one of the five Royal Marines

bands, returning to the school for courses which qualify them for higher rank.

Musicians and buglers are also trained for another role in time of war - as medical orderlies. In World War II, for instance, the Band Service suffered a greater proportion of casualties than any other arm of the Corps, losing 225 killed.

Highlights for the bands this year have included the annual Mountbatten Festival of Music, and in June a rare Beat Retreat ceremony performed on Horse Guards Parade by the massed bands in the presence of the Queen and the Captain General of the Corps, the Duke of Edinburgh, to mark his 75th birthday.

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As well as performing many concerts at home, bands have also visited - or are due to visit Toronto, Hong Kong, Sweden, Norway, Gibraltar and Turkey.

In the Royal Tournament, the bands, 200 strong, perform under their Principal Director of Music, Lt Col Richard Waterer.

The musicians are drawn from Royal Marines bands of Plymouth, Portsmouth, Scotland and the Commando Training Centre, Lympstone.

Facing the music: Above, Sgt Chris Rees of Britannia Royal Naval College Band and below, one of the 16 female musicians who for the first time played in a massed bands Beat Retreat ceremony on Horse Guards in June, where the top picture was also taken.

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The rig devised there is a 40ft high frame, the bottom of which is 20ft from the ground. The skilled erection of the 1.5-tons of equipment is now the responsibility of

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The Window Ladder Display Team's cohesion and long training combines to weld 40 men and women into a single unit, carrying out 210 precise movements each of which require a high standard of gymnastic ability coupled with splitsecond timing. Performing 40ft above the ground, they make synchronised movements to music without a single verbal command.

As part of the performance other members of the team are presenting a traditional club-swinging routine followed by an aerobics display in which members of the audience will take part.

The display team of 90 volunteers from throughout the Service are led by Lt Steve Gough with two PT instructors - CPO Ivan Torpey and LW Sue Howe.

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EABORNE ASSAULT has been a major part of the Royal Marines' itinerary since their creation in the 17th century. But with the coming of the submarine, the Royal Navy had to hand a vehicle ideally suited to putting ashore small raiding parties embarked on clandestine operations.

Stories of World War II enemy radar surveillance.

Advanced communications Commandos launched from submarines and secretly equipment with ranges of many hundreds of metres allows paddling ashore to sabo- raiding Marines to maintain tage vital enemy equipment contact with the boat's comor installations was once manding officer beneath the every boy's essential tale of waves, and infra-red optics gives them the ability to see at derring do.

The concept of raiders from the deep is as relevant today as it was more than 50 years ago yet now the submarines from which they emerge are nuclear powered, such as HMS Talent, pictured here.

And the Marines may be equipped with speedy, inflatable boats, or may exit through escape hatches as "frogmen" while the submarine is still submerged and immune to

night, better than cats - and much more dangerous.

It is in this way that the raiders can achieve complete surprise if a destructive attack on an enemy is their mission.

However, if their orders require a reconnaissance, they may carry out their task, transmitting back information or target data without their adversary ever knowing that they had been ashore.

The Royal Marines over four centuries â&#x20AC;˘ From centre pages formed. Four battalions landed at Antwerp, being joined by two Naval brigades to defend Belgian port. Antwerp falls and bulk of force lost. Pilot Lt C. H. Collet RMA leads first air attack on Zeppelin sheds in Germany.

Turkish forces at Lemnos during Gallipoli campaign. Three other RM battalions - 95 per cent raw recruits or reservists suffer similar fate while supporting Australian forces.

During the action, a stretcher bearer, L/Cpl Walter Richard Parker, wins VC.

1915 - Two battalions of Royal Marines cut to pieces in abortive landing against

1916 - Royal Marines are last troops to leave Gallipoli. Battle of Jutland: 6,000 Royal Marines

serving with Grand Fleet suffer more than ten per cent casualties. Among them is Major Francis John William Harvey who is awarded posthumous VC for saving battlecruiser HMS Lion from disaster.

RMA units take part in Battle of Somme. Two battalions with the Naval Division on Western Front. By end of year they can only muster 292 officers and men.

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1917 - Major Frederic William Lumsden becomes Corps' seventh VC for recovering captured enemy guns on Western Front.

1918 4th Battalion embarked in cruiser HMS Vindictive to cover operation to sink blockships in Zeebrugge harbour. Operation successful, but ineffective. Marines suffer almost 50 per cent casualties, winning two VCs which go by ballot to Capt Edward Bamford and Sgt Norman Augustus Finch.

41 Cdos. When 41 suffer heavy losses at Salerno, 43 take their place. Nos 42 and 44 Cdos to Burma.

- In Aden, 45 Cdo 1963 involved in Radfan campaign which continues until Aden 1944 - In January, 40 and 41 evacuated in 1967.

Cdos operate out of Naples and 43 takes part in Anzio landings. 1964 - 45 Cdo put down an rebellion against D-Day ... Five RM Commandos armed Nyerere of - 41 and 45-48 land in President Normandy, and Marines man Tanganyika. nearly two-thirds of British 1965 - Earl Mountbatten of assault craft. Heaviest casualties - 30 per cent - suffered by Burma becomes Life Colonel Commandant of Corps.

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1945 - Cpl Tom Hunter wins posthumous VC as result of 1919 - Treaty of Versailles. actions on April 1 in counterCorps strength to be reduced attacking enemy forces near in a year from 56,000 to 15,000. Lake Comacchio, Italy. In More than 6,000 Royal Marines Germany 45 and 46 Cdos take died during conflict. Royal part in Rhine crossing.

By VE Day 1,000 Royal Marines take part in actions Marines killed in north-west against Bolsheviks in Russia.

Europe campaign. In Far East 3 1923 - RM strength cut to Cdo Brigade undertake suc9,500 and RMLI and RMA amal- cessful campaign in Burma and gamate to be known simply as re-occupy Rangoon. After war RM strength reduced from Royal Marines.

78,000 to 10,000, forming three 1929 - Royal Marines pilot Lt Commandos - 40, 42 and 45.

Owen Cathcart-Jones becomes 1950 - Commandos sent to first to carry out a night-time deck landing on board aircraft Malaya to combat communist insurgents.

In UK 41 carrier (HMS Courageous).

(Independent) Cdo raised to 1939 - Corps strength at take part in Korean War, joining 12,390 at outbreak of World in the Inchon landings and War II. New training camp receiving Presidential Unit established at Lympstone, Citation from USA. Devon.

1952 - Marines sent to 1940 - Marines take part in Malaya return to Malta where Norwegian campaign, being each Commando presented last Allied troops to leave on with their first Colours by Duke evacuation. RM fliers dive- of Edinburgh. bomb and sink German cruiser 1955 - 45 Cdo begin anti-terKoenigsberg.

In France Marines cover Allied with- rorist operations in Cyprus. drawals from Calais and 1956 - 3 Cdo Bde leads Boulogne, suffering heavy seaborne assault on Port Said casualties. in Suez operation. First heli1941 - Most of force of 2,000 copter-borne assault carried Marines in Crete killed or cap- out by 45 Cdo from carriers tured during German airborne HMS Theseus and HMS Ocean. invasion.

1960 - HMS Bulwark joins Fleet as first Commando carri1942 - First RM Commandos er, being supplemented by formed, becoming 40 and 41 HMS Albion in 1962, the year Cdo, 40 Cdo first seeing action that assault ships Intrepid and in abortive and bloody raid on Fearless laid down. 45 Cdo Dieppe. Forerunners of Special deployed to Aden to deal with Boat Squadron paddle two-man Yemeni-inspired unrest. 41 Cdo canoes up Gironde river to sink two merchant ships and dam- reformed at Bickleigh. age three at Bordeaux. Only 1961 - 43 Cdo reformed at two of ten "Cockleshell Heroes" return. Six captured by Plymouth. 42 Cdo sent to Kuwait to deter Iraqi aggresGermans and shot.

1943 - Under influence of Chief of Combined Operations, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, RM Divisions converted to Commandos, numbered 42-48. Invasion of Sicily and Italy includes 40 and

mandos help defend region.

1962 - L Company of 42 Cdo makes seaborne raid on Limbang, Brunei to free hostages taken by Indonesianbacked rebels.

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1968 - 43 Cdo disbanded.

- 41 Cdo sent to 1969 Northern Ireland to respond to unrest. This begins continuing commitment to provide Royal Marines for tours of duty in Northern Ireland which continues to this day. By end of 1970s, Commandos will have lost 11 killed and 80 wounded during 22 tours of the Province.

1970 - Commando Training Centre at Lympstone expands.

1971 - 45 Cdo based in Arbroath given specialist role to defend NATO's Arctic flank.

1972 - Commando Logisitic Regiment commissioned.

1973 - Last Corps remembrance parade at Eastney before closure.

1975 - RM Museum opened at Eastney by Duke of Edinburgh.

1980 - Comacchio Company (later Comacchio Group) formed to defend oil rigs against possible terrorist attack.

1982 - Argentina invades the Falklands and captures small Royal Marines detachments there and on South Georgia after fierce fight. 3 Cdo Bde deployed with Task Force, lands at San Carlos with two battalions of The Parachute Regiment.

After 80km yomp across east Falkland, 42 and 45 Cdos make night attack on June 11-12 on Mount Harriet and Two Sisters peaks respectively. British force, bolstered by 5th Infantry Bde, captures Stanley 36 hours later and accepts Argentinian surrender.

- Royal Marines 1990 engaged in boarding merchant ships to enforce UN embargo operations during Gulf crisis, and RM personnel involved in operations during subsequent war.