NAVY NEWS, AUGUST 1996
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r Shiu (70) ends 48 years at sea
-Jon takes prizesat the double . . . FOR THE first time the top two RN executive course annual prizes have gone to the same officer - S Lt Jon Taylor of HMS Dolphin. He won the Admiral Sir Richard Clayton Memorial Sword as the Special Duties List Seaman officer gaining the highest marks, at Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth, on the SD Greenwich course and the executive course. He also took the Carl Zeiss binoculars prize as the student achieving the highest marks overall on the executive course.
CHINESE laundryman Shiu Hang Che is hanging up his shipboard iron after almost 50 years at sea in British and New Zealand warships. Mr Sniu (70) began his service with the Royal Navy in 1948, transferring to the RNZN in 1957. He has spent almost all his working life in ships, logging more sea time than any member of either of the navies he has served. Until now he has been able to spend only a month a year with his wife and family in Hong Kong, and until the 1980s did not even see New Zealand as ship's companies changed in Singapore.
GEC Marconi The sword, was presented on behalf of GEC Marconi Underwater Weapons, by the company's defence adviser, Vice Admiral The Hon Sir Nicholas Hill-Norton. S Lt Taylor received the binoculars from the managing director of Carl Zeiss (Oberkochen) Ltd, John Cockerill. Other prizes presented at the School of Maritime Operations, HMS Dryad went to: S/Lt George Franklin of HMS Anglesey - the £150 Beaufort-Wharton
Korean War For the past 20 years Mr Shiu has been an employer, holding contracts to provide up to 14 laundrymen on British ships and up to six on New Zealand vessels. His hard work has allowed him to fund his youngest son through Oxford University where he gained a PhD and is now a surgeon and lecturer in Hong Kong. His two other sons joined the police force there, one of them becoming an inspector. Mr Shiu, who saw service in the Korean War and in the Indoniesia Confrontation, received the Queen's Service Medal in 1987. Now a New Zealand citizen, he plans to settle in his adopted country - to start a small laundry at Devonport NZ naval base.
Marines honour medic Sharon
S/Lt Jon Taylor - an executive course first. Testimonial Prize for navigation marks. S/Lt Barry Sillers of HMS Dolphin the £100 Goodenough Prize for warfare examination marks. S/Lt Alan Wilson of HMS Arun - the £150 Ronald Megaw Memorial Prize for the highest exam and course mark.
Quick change for Peter The oldest laundryman at sea? . . . 70-year-old Mr Shiu on his last trip with HMNZS Wellington. Picture: New Zealand Herald
ROYAL NAVY paramedic Sharon Gardiner, serving with the Royal Marines, has been awarded the Commendation of the Commandant General RM for "oustanding commitment to her duties". Her achievements have included life-saving treatment administered to a man who had attempted suicide. She also gave outstanding assistance during HMS Fearless's aid project in Guyana in 1994, and has carried out field work with the Marines since 1995. Her last job in the Service, before she volunteered for redundancy, was with the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone.
That's the spirit!
PASSING out day at HMS Sultan meant a rapid uniform change for Peter Buckenham. While training as an artificer apprentice at the School of Marine and Air Engineering, Peter (right) passed the Admiralty interview board for officer cadetship, and was selected to join Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth on the same day as passing out divisions at Sultan. After taking part in the divisions he quickly drove to Dartmouth to exchange his artificer's uniform for that of an officer cadet. • One of the new arrivals at Sultan is JAEM Sam White, whose passing out parade at the new entry training establishment at HMS Raleigh was watched by his father, Tony White, who that day was retiring from the RNR as a lieutenant-commander. Tony joined the Royal Navy in
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FOUR years of excellent service as HMS Walney's Naval stores accountant has won for POMEM(M) Len Hutton the quarterly prize of "The Walney Spirit" - a bottle of Famous Grouse whisky sponsored by distillers Matthew Gloag & Sons. He also received a certificate and £30 from the ship. Len is pictured, with his shipmates, receiving the prizes from Matthew Gloag and Walney's Commanding Officer, Lt Simon Hardern.
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