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• A Royal Marine from HMS Endurance with a Senegalese Army soldier getting to grips with the SA80 picture: LA Phot wareing
Fire and ice for Red Plum in Africa
THE Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance has been basking in the tropical heat of African Senegal. The go-anywhere, do-anything anytime nature of the Royal Marines was on display when members of the Endurance detachment leapt ashore for an exchange of ideas and some mutual training with the Senegalese Army at Dakar. THE Defence Analytical Services The six-strong Royal Marine Agency have released the latest detachment is carried with the ice statistics for military manning. ship for their expertise in the cold The current full-time trained weather environment. strength for the UK Armed Forces Certainly the humidity and temstands at 187,600 for April 2002, a perature of 30 degrees centigrade fall of 0.9 per cent since the previin brilliant sunshine made a ous year. marked contrast to their previous On the other hand, the number months working in temperatures of women has risen slightly for all of less than minus 30 degrees. three services with women now Lt Pete Clarke RM, one of the making up 9.7 per cent of officers Lynx helicopter pilots on board, and 8.1 per cent of other ranks. spent a rewarding morning honing However, the Navy has the his weapon-handling skills at a highest proportion from all three Senegalese Army range. Services of outflow of trained Before arriving back home to strength with a figure of 13.4 perPortsmouth at the end of May, cent - 4,100 compared with 3,620 a Endurance made one more stop at year earlier. the port of Funchal in Madeira.
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Campbeltown clocks up record miles
THE Type 22 frigate, HMS Campbekown, is midway through her Indian Ocean deployment and has just broken her own mileage record, clocking up 7,641 nautical miles in one month. Campbeltown sailed from Plymouth in early February for a six-month deployment.
She joined HMS Ocean as part of the coalition efforts to curb international terrorism and has spent long periods at sea in the Gulf of Aden. Even with her allied commitments, the frigate has managed to fit in some enjoyable spells during her time away. Mombasa in Kenya has proven a particularly memorable visit - in terms of Service, sport and family life. A considerable number of Campbeltown's ship's company attended a memorial service at the Seaman's Mission in Mombasa for the nine men of HMS Brilliant who lost their lives in a helicopter crash 13 years earlier. In the sporting field, the ship's
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football team came second in the contest for the Brilliant Trophy, but despite stiff and experienced competition, the ship's sailing team stormed to victory in the Triumph Cup Trophy against Mombasa Sailing Club. Campbeltown also shone on the rugby pitch, but were defeated by a cricket side that included nationalstandard players. The two-week visit to Kenya's
shores gave families a chance to fly out to enjoy the break with their loved ones. One sailor took advantage of the break to fly his fiance out and tie the knot in a tropical wedding ceremony in Mombasa. Two other members of the ship's company were obviously inspired by the heat to pop the question and get engaged - but not to each other!
Fearless doctor A PRECARIOUS transfer was involved when HMS Fearless' Principal Medical Officer, Surg Lt Cdr Duncan Blair, was called to help on a Spanish trawler. As a result of his bravery, Surg Lt Cdr Blair has been presented with a Commander-inChief Fleet Commendation. The Naval doctor was commended for his hi-line transfer from HMS Montrose's Lynx to the trawler: "To do so from an unfamiliar helicopter to a violently-rolling, erratically-pitching vessel whose crew are exhausted took great devotion to duty and courage." Lt Cdr Blair said: "I did what any other Navy Medical Officer would do," and praised the Lynx team.
• Surg Lt Cdr Duncan Blair
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A ROYAL Navy lieutenant has been awarded a MBE for his work on the HMS Tireless repair in Gibraltar. Lt Neville Bryce is praised in a commendation from the Warship Support Agency: "The successful completion of the project has been largely due to Bryce's dynamic and positive management and leadership style and his passionate belief in personal contact." He is particularly praised for his ability to take the political dimension entirely in his stride. Lt Bryce joined the Navy in 1977 as a Marine Engineering Artificer Apprentice. He was selected for commission in 1991, and gained a post-graduate diploma in Nuclear Reactor Engineering Technology. He is now working at Portsmouth Naval Base for the Director of Naval Base Support.
JUNE saw the 62nd annual pilgrimage of the HMT Lancastria Association to mark one of Britain's worst maritime disasters. An estimated 4,000 people, including troops, refugees and medical staff, died when the troop ship Lancastria was bombed off St Nazaire in World War II. Over 80 people, including survivors, travelled to France to visit the Lancastria Memorial and be taken to the site by HMS Shetland to lay a wreath over the wreck.
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D i Cdr Garry Newton, HMS Vigilant, thanks Lt Col Chris Deverell, IRTR
A rare opportunity for submariners from Faslanebased HMS Vigilant to 'ride a tank' came when the boat's crew visited the 1 st Battalion, The Royal Tank Regiment (1RTR) in Warminster. This was a new affiliation and gave the Navy an opportunity to see the Armoured Trials Development Unit at Bovington and the Gunnery School at Lulworth. The Army will be visiting Vigilant in Scotland later in the year.