NAVY NEWS, FEBRUARY 2000
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What a wonderful surprise for all the old salts the Royal Navy 1900 supplement was - we have a few members of my RNA who are in their 90s and whose fathers were on the ships you showed.
Memorial firsts I WOULD like to correct a small mistake in the January issue regarding the first memorial to Lord Nelson. The very first one was set up by the furnacemen of the Lorn Furnace at Bonawe where they made the cannonhalls which were used at Trafalgar. On hearing of Lord Nelson's death in 1805 they dragged a granite pillar weighing approximately four tons to a small hill just to the north of the church in the village of Taynuilt, Argyle and Bute and erected it there, even before Nelson's body was brought back to England. M. Mackay, Ardrossan. The Nelson Companion by Colin White also mentions a memorial arch erected in Castletownshend, County Cork in November 1805 by 200 Sea Fencibles under the command of Capt Joshua Rowley Watson, RN. - Ed
I've just had a call from a 95year-old shipmate who says he believes the man in the picture taken on board HMS Duncan, top right in full uniform with fag in mouth, was the sailor used on the front of the Players cigarette packet. - G. W. Toomey, Eastbourne, E. Sussex
AFTER reading Royal Navy 1900 I thought you might like to see these pictures showing how we lived 50 years later. Not much has changed - they show the mess of No 10 and 11 classes, Benbow Division, HMS Ganges in 1951 with our instructors CPO Dady and PO Blizzard and us getting the coal in during work ship week. - P. Ward, Dursley, Gloucs.
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