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An appropriate title for this stunning photograph of HMS Ark Royal, Withship's company linintj the deck in Procedure Alpha somewhere off the eastcoast of the United States.

It won POA(Phot) Chris Nortrrthe Maritime Trophy in the annual Royal Navyphotographic Peregrine Trophy Competition (see centre pages for morepictures and full results).

THE war of words over where RN nuclear submarinesshould be refitted in future has continued unabated,drawing in strong views from individual areas, includingMPs, and the representations of trade unions.

As speculation has continued over the future of Devonport andRosyth for nuclear refitting, it was made clear for the Government inDecember that further time was needed to assess the situation.

"We continue to receive from avariety of sources much detailed andimportant information which bearson future arrangements for the refit-ting and repair of Royal Navy ves-sels, particularly nuclear-poweredsubmarines.

"This information has recently includ-ed a further series of proposals from thecontractors at the Royal dockyards forthe provision of the new dockyard facili-ties that will be needed to support Tri-dent submarines.

"We now expect that the need to assessproperly the latest contractor proposalswill preclude an announcement beforethe House returns after the Christmas re-cess, but we will make an announcementthereafter as soon as we responsibly can."

Home isthe sailor

Back from her final major deploymentbefore going into a state of "extendedreadiness" later this year is the last ofthe Portsmouth-built Leanders, HMSAndromeda. In five months she hassailed the seven seas from the Baltic

to the Adriatic (see page 2). TRIPLE ENTENTE FORFUTURE FRIGATE

CHIEFS of Naval Staff of the French,Italian and Royal Navies signed a jointstaff requirement for the Anglo-FrenchFuture Frigate in London last month —for the first time publicly introducing theItalians into a project designed to pro-vide a low-cost common anti-air warfareplatform for the first decades of the nextcentury.

First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Julian Oswaldsaid value for money was a prime considera-tion for all involved — which his Italiancoun te rpa r t A d m i r a l Gu ido V e n t u r o n iexpected would be derived from on-going ex-change of ideas in use of manpower, mainte-nance and operation as well as from savingsin spreading the load in research and develop-ment.

Admiral Oswald added that having such a vesselin common — in the Royal Navy's case it is de-signed to replace the Type 42 destroyer once itcomes into service in 2002 — would lead to adeeper type of co-operation between navies that

already enjoyed close working relationships.For the French Navy, Admiral Alain Coatanea

felt there was "no other way to go forward — and ilis a good way."

Controller of the Navy Vicc-Admiral Sir KennethEaton — mindful of the unhappy history of theNato NFR 90 which was weighed down by thedemands of eight participating navies — said therewas no likelihood of introducing any more partnersto the project, since no other European Navy was inthe market for an anti-air warfare vessel in the sametimescale.

It is planned that development and bui ld of thefirst of class ships will be contracted to an Inter-national Joint Venture Company early in 1995 fol-lowing a competition.

Each nation wil l build its own ships — the Frenchand Italians each have a requirement for four w h i l ethe Royal Navy wants 12.

The Italian involvement has come wi th the dis-covery, as with the French, of a broadly similarrequirement. Discussions are cont inu ing whichmay soon lead to full I ta l ian participation whi le afull joint project is due to get the go-ahead w i t h amemorandum of understanding in autumn thisyear.

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Coventry, Cardiffand Columbus

VISITING Nassau in the Bahamas, as part of the Chris-topher Columbus Quincentennial Celebrations, the de-stroyer HMS Cardiff and frigate HMS Coventry wereboth invited to participate in the Columbus 500 DayParade, marching through the capital.

Each ship provided a 24-man armed platoon which wasformed into a combined Royal Naval marching detachment 48strong, preceded by the Colour Party parading the WhiteEnsign.

In addition, HMS Cardiff also provided an unarmed march-ing platoon comprising both male and female members of theship's company.

The celebrations proved to be a colourful mix of militaryparade, carnival procession, Caribbean bands, and local pag-eantry, some seven and a half miles in length.

The parade took almost four hours from start to finish intemperatures approaching the 90s, so when, at the end of theevent, everyone was doused by a sudden tropical downpour itwas most welcomed by all of those taking part.

Picture below — the combined detachment from HMS Coventry and HMS Cardiffmarching through Nassau

Seven Seas finaleHMS ANDROMEDA'S final deployment proved to be an event-filled five months, taking her to the Atlantic,

Baltic, Mediterranean, Adriatic and Black Seas. Add on two smaller seas visited — the Aegean and the Sea ofMarmara — to make the total count of seven.

Operating as the Royal Navy ship in the seven-ship NATO Standing Naval Force Atlantic, Andromeda visited12 ports in ten different countries, took part in two major maritime exercises and participated in OperationMarmon, monitoring the United Nations' embargo off the coast of former Yugoslavia.

A maintenance period was spent inIstanbul, where some of the ship's com-pany took the opportunity to fly theirwives and girlfriends out for a visit, andthen the ship took passage through theBosphorus into the Black Sea to Varnain Bulgaria, the first time a NATO mar-itime force has visited that country.

The seven Standing Force ships andthe Turkish frigate Savastepe, which ac-

companied them for the visit, wereopen to the public on three days when atotal of over 20,000 curious Bulgarianscame to take a look.

Other highlights of the deploymentfor Andromeda were her two resound-ing victories, one in the NATO SportsOlympiad, held in the Olympic Sta-dium at Barcelona (see report in thesports section, page 35) and the other in

the inter-ship cookery competition,judged by top European chefs inLisbon.

HMS Andromeda, the last of theLeander-class frigates to be built inPortsmouth, returned there from hereventful deployment in time for Christ-mas. Now 25 years old, she is due to be"retired" in 1993 into a period of ex-tended readiness.

Culinary victors of HMS Andromeda. Proudly displaying their medals are — back row,left to right, STD Gary Clough, POSTD Pat O'Shea, Cdr. Chris Peach, (the CommandingOfficer), LSTD Chris Eade and POCK Paul Preston. Foreground, CK Phil Twigg and LCKBob Winter.

Edinburgh backfrom Armilla

AFTER six months away on Armilla Patrol, the Type 42 des-troyer HMS Edinburgh has clocked up an extremely varied listof statistics, ranging from 30,000 miles steamed to four-and-a-half miles of sausages eaten, from £3,000 raised for charity totwo members of the ship's company flown home during thedeployment to attend the birth of their sons.

Edinburgh's Persian Gulfdeployment has seen her vis-it fourteen different coun-tries, including Egypt, Dubai,Singapore and Malaysia,where, in Penang, the roman-tic setting resulted in threecrew members marrying theirfiancees when they arrivedon a visit.

There was plenty of actionat sea as well, with eight na-val exercises, which includedoperating with the on-stationUSS Independence battlegroup in the Gulf and teamingup with the Orient 92 TaskGroup exercising offMalaysia.

One of her final ports ofcall, homeward bound, wasPatras in Greece, involvingfirst a passage through theCorinth Canal. On board forthe trip were several RoyalNavy Reserve radio operatorsand a small detachment fromRAF Buchan, an affiliate ofthe ship.

Now back home in Scot-land at her base port of Ros-yth, the crew of HMS Edin-burgh can reflect on a trulycapital deployment.

Photo above: HMS Edin-burgh transits through thenarrow confines of the Cor-inth Canal.

Ship's company members from each of the eight ships which make up the NATOStanding Naval Force Atlantic, at the wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of theUnknown Bulgarian Soldier, during the visit to Varna.

Representing HMS Andromeda was LS(R) Paul Fletcher (extreme right in picture).

Sea Kingsover Bosnia

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UNDER FIRESOMALIA

ROYAL MARINES Captain Paul Denning was at the centre of the first armedclash involving United Nations forces in Somalia when his US Marine CorpsCobra helicopter gunship was fired on by armed Somali vehicles.

In a swift retaliatory action all three vehicles were destroyed when thehelicopter returned fire.

Capt. Denning, normally a Lynx helicopter pilot with 3 Cdo Bde Air Sqn, basedat RNAS Yeovilton, is on exchange duties with the US Marine Corps, serving inthe Aviation Combat Element of the Special Marine Air Ground Task Force,based in the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli.

HMS Gloucester arrivedback in Portsmouth just intime for Christmas aftermonths spent enforcing theUnited Nations trade em-bargo against Montenegroand Serbia (see also page29).

As the Rosyth-based Type 42destroyer HMS York took overher duties in the Adriatic herCommanding Officer Capt.Paul Stone stressed the deploy-ment's "important humanitar-ian aim."

RFAs Sir Bedivere and Re-source are there in her support.

Meanwhile the Sea King "fly-ing ambulances" of 845 Sqnwere preparing to undertake re-connaissance missions overBosnia, the Ministry of De-fence announced — once theirsafe passage had beennegotiated.

Painted in white UN livery1,the four helicopters were un-loaded at the Croatian port ofSplit by the RFA Argus, whichhas now also returned home.

They have been on a con-stant state of readiness to evac-uate casualties suffered by Bri-t ish t roops c a u g h t in anycrossfire between the warringfactions.

Surg. Lieut.-Cdr. David Birt— who served in HMS York inthe Gulf War — is leading amedical team operating in theCroatia/Bosnia border town ofKnin, where he deals with localpeople suffering the ravages ofcivil war as well as caring forthe needs of the UN troops.

• RFA Argus at Split withher cargo of white painted heli-copters and other transport.

IN BRIEFRepulseBay's abig one

Biggest ever visitor to HMSTamar was P & O's new con-tainer ship MV Repulse Bay,named by Mrs Lavender Pattenafter the bay which took itsname from the HMS Repulsethat fought off pirates plunder-ing Hong Kong in its earlyyears as a British colony.

n n nSSAFA's Chairman Admiral

Sir Peter Herbert received ahuge cake representing aglobe to mark the Associa-tion's Nursing and Welfarecentenary and baked by L/CplDavid Hardware of the ArmyCatering Corps.

n n nLand Forces Commander Gi-

bral tar Colonel Tony ReedScreen was invited to inspectNaval Div i s ions at HMSRooke, escorted by Lieut. AllanMickleburgh.

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The George Cross awardedposthumously to Lieut.Anthony Fasson, RN who diedsalvaging code-breakingmaterial from a sinking U-Boatin 1942 has been donated tothe National Museums ofScotland.

North Sea drugbust praised

HMS SHETLAND helped Customs officers seize a huge cocaine haul from a trawlerin the North Sea.

The fishery protectionvessel trained her guns onthe British-registered oil rigsupport vessel — which hadbeen recently sold — whilethe officers boarded her 170miles east of Newcastle.

Cannabis with a street valueof £30m was uncovered at oncewhile surveillance had indicat-ed the presence of the "designerdrug" cocaine.

The Shetland then escortedthe Britannia Gazelle into Hullwhere it was pa ins tak ing lystripped from bow to stern.

HM Customs and ExciseChairman Sir Brian Unwin lat-er praised the "close co-opera-tion" with the Royal Navy dur-ing a Ipng and skilfully plannedoperation.

Cl l r and Mrs Ron Sim-monds, the Lord Mayor andLady Mayoress of Plymouth,visited HMS Drake to put astitch in the 1588 Armadapanel of the New World.

Diver'sgrim

discoveryA diver from a helicopter

from RN air station Culdrosefound the wreck of a fishingboat 70 ft down on the seabednear Padstow, Cornwall.

L/A Ian Chambers disco-vered the badly battered re-mains of the 34 ft crabber Pe-ganina near G u l l a n d Rock.There was no sign of her threecrew.

Nottinghamgets roped inWhile on passage to the Arabian Gulf HMS Nottingham

was called upon to join the multi-national Maritime Inter-ception Force in the north Red Sea. For the Royal Navy'sArmilla Patrol ships in the Gulf War rumbles on ...

She linked up with the USS Briscoe and FNS Drogou to boardand search merchant ships in the Gulf of Aqaba, in support of UNresolutions which still ban import and export of certain goods to andfrom Iraq.

The Type 42 destroyer conducted 23 boardings in just eight days— regularly using the "fast roping" techniques usually reserved forthe Royal Marines.

She lent not a few helping hands as well. The "Holy Helo"transported the ship's chaplain, Fr David Lacy, among the ships ofthe force to conduct church services while POMA Peter Duncanadministered emergency medical treatment to an injured Philipinosailor.

Pickled?Any Mess that has held a

Pickle Night, commemoratingthe anniversary of the arrivalat Falmouth with news of thevictory of Trafalgar of HMSPickle on 4 November, 1805,please inform WO BrianWines, Mess President HMSNelson.

-Four day-ordeal in

CambodiaROYAL NAVY Lieuten-

ant Scott Verney and fiveother United Nations mili-tary observers, kidnappedby the Khmer Rouge inCambodia, were released,pale and tired but otherwisehealthy and in good spirits,after four days in captivity.

The UN Observers werem o n i t o r i n g troop move-ments from a patrol boat inthe Stoeng Sen River whenthey were captured by theKhmer Rouge guerillas andaccused of s p y i n g forPhnom Penh government.

They were e v e n t u a l l yhanded over to a team ofIndonesian peace-keepingtroops after prolonged nego-t i a t i o n s to secure t h e i rrelease.

LASTONE

BACKLast ship home from the

Gulf War — the forward re-pair ship RFA Diligencewas able to claim that dis-tinction as she arrived inPortsmouth last monthafter nearly three yearsaway from the UK.

During that time she hasprovided repair and main-tenance facilities for bothnaval and auxiliary vesselsoperating away from theirbase ports.

The 12,000 tonne shipserved in the Gulf fromSeptember 1990 to April1991 before returning tothe Falklands and nowgoes on to refit at Middles-borough having servicedover a hundred warships ofdifferent nations duringher period overseas.

Originally the MV StenaInspector, she was takenup from trade during theFalklands campaign toprovide repair facilities inthe South Atlantic.

She proved so usefulthat she was transferred tothe RFA and normally car-ries a party of Royal Navyengineering specialists inher fully equippedworkshops.

Crazyhockey

HMS Sirius's helicopteranchor grid was used toplay a form of target hock-ey when HMS Siriusstaged a Flight Deck Fayreto raise £280 for the Dou-bletree* school for handi-capped children at StAustell.

She was on her way toTunis — where the ship'srock band The Culprits hadthe chance to play at aninternational Trade Week.

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Unisex roster plannedfor AugustONE of the most frequently asked questions of Drafty's Roadshow is "When areadvancement rosters for RN and WRNS ratings going to be integrated?" For all those onsea service the answer is 31 August, 1993.

The DCI published in December announcing the integration of rosters and promotionshould be available to you by now and a further DCI with more detail should hit the streetsin February.

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The proportion of men orwomen advanced to Lead-ing Hand and above willnot be controlled as alladvancement and subse-quent promotion will bebased purely on qualifica-tion, time and merit. At thetime of integration ratingswill be placed on an amal-gamated roster in a placeappropriate to their basicdate and merit points; thismeans tha t , i nev i t ab ly ,some individuals will findtheir waiting times change.

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RN and WRNS(Sea)Selection Boards for promo-tion to CPO (non artificer)and Warrant Officer willmerge from the SelectionBoards (PO to CPO) inAutumn 1993 onwards. Thefirst merged Warrant Offi-cer Promotion Board withina combined quota will be inthe early months of 1994.Non sea volunteers willhave separate quotes andselection.

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Integration brings with iteligibility for 2OE, at theappropriate time in theirservice, for Wrens with asea liability. The first jointboard will be that which sitsin the Spring of 1994.

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Separateshoreroster

If you are a Wren whojoined before September1990 and have not volun-teered for sea you will re-main on a separate shoreadvancement roster. Theexisting routes up the ad-vancement and promotionladder to Warrant Officerwill remain.

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Crushingend forearlierice ship

TODAY'S HMS Endur-ance is named after theship in which ErnestShackleton sailed to theAntarctic in 1914. Hisship was trapped inpack-ice for 281 daysbefore being crushedand sunk.

Shackleton and his menmade camp on ElephantIsland, from where he setout on an epic voyage toSouth Georgia in a smallopen boat, the JamesCaird. The entire expedi-tion was finally rescuedwith no loss of life. JamesCaird is now the name ofthe present ship's surveymotor boat.

The most recent ship tohave the name HMS Endur-ance was the ice-strength-ened vessel MV Anita Dan,which was renamed andcommissioned in 1968.Since that time, until beingreplaced by the presentvessel in 1991, she de-ployed every year to theAntarctic. In 1982 sheplayed a full and activepart in the Falklands con-flict, from the outsetthrough to the eventualvictory.

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Ships of the Royal Navy No. 446 /J

Above: Early December saw the ice patrol ship HMS Endur-ance sailing for the Antarctic for her first such deploymentunder her new name. Last year she carried out the task asHMS Polar Circle.

BUILT FORENDURANCE

IN THEICY SOUTH

FACTS AND FIGURESPennant No: A171. Commissioned: Nov. 21, 1991 as HMSPolar Circle. Rededicated: Oct. 9, 1992 as HMS Endur-ance. Displacement: 6,500 tonnes. Length overall: 91 me-tres. Beam: 17.9m. Draught: 6.5m. Diesel power: 2 x 4,080bhp. Speed: 14 knots. Endurance: 65,000 nautical milesat 12 knots. Complement: 118. Battle honour: FalklandIslands 1982. Motto: By endurance we conquer.

BUILT by Ulstein HatloEndurance is constructedLloyds) requirements for

Initially chartered by theRoyal Navy, she was pur-chased outright early lastyear and underwent somemodification last summerto enable her better to carryout her tasks.

The ship is fully ice capableand c e r t i f i e d a b l e to cu tthrough three feet of first yearice at three knots, although dur-ing her first season she actuallycut through some 8-1 Oft of softice. Her propulsion systems arcvery modern, the two Bergendiesels and variable pitch pro-peller being computer-con-trolled.

ModernShe is also very manoeuvra-

ble: there are eight differentways of steering her — mainsteering stand, joystick, threeother rudder joysticks, auto-pilot, bow thruster and sternthruster. Her navigation fitcombining GPS and DISC (anelectronic cha r t i ng system)makes her one of the mostmodern ships in the world.

Built for the dual role oftourist ship-Antarctic survey/exploration vessel, the newHMS Endurance offers a de-gree of luxury . Jun io r ratessleep just two to a cabin, whilesenior rates and officers havei n d i v i d u a l accommodat ion .

for the Richer Shipping A/Sto the Det Norske Veritas

icebreakers.Cabins are complete with ensuite showers and heads.

The ship's company also re-laxes in style. What used to bethe tourist observation loungeis now the wardroom. Situatedbeneath the bridge it offerspanoramic views. The seniorrates mess used to be the touristlounge bar, while the juniorrates' d in ing room was pre-viously the restaurant.

PanoramicThe Endurance has plenty of

cargo space, cranes and boatsto enable her to operate inareas such as the Antarct icwhere dockside facilities do notexist. The flight deck and thehangar were originally designedfor a single Super Puma as op-posed to the two Lynx helicop-ters the ship now carries.

The hangar has been en-larged to make the stowage ofthe helicopters safer. Two heli-copters are vital, not only forachieving the heavy workloadbut also for mutual Search andRescue (SAR) in a most unfor-giving environment.

HMS Endurance has threemain tasks — to provide a sov-ereign presence, to perform hy-drographic survey and to sup-port t he B r i t i s h A n t a r c t i cSurvey.

The sovereign presence role

as MV Polar Circle, HMS(the Norwegian version of

is one of flying the flag and rep-resenting the British Govern-ment in Antarctica. To this endthe ship pays informal visits tobases, both British and foreign,up and down the Antarc t icPeninsula.

The hydrographic surveytask, directed by the Hydro-graphic Office, is to surveycompletely the waters of theAntarctic Peninsula. This in-cludes the taking of control ob-servations and vertical photog-r a p h y as w e l l as echosoundings.

Finally, BAS support — theBritish Antarctic Survey runsthe British scientific effort inthe Antarctic. HMS Endurancesupports this work by trans-porting BAS personnel into andout of the Antarctic as well asproviding helicopters to takefield teams to areas in whichthe BAS Twin Otter aeroplanescould not land.

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Letters

Resettlementpension

planA dognamed

forTaff

MAY I express my deepgratitude and that of myfamily to all who have sup-ported us in many wayssince the tragic death ofmy son Leading WriterDean (Taff) Clements, ofHMS Heron, in October.

It was heart-warming toknow how many peoplecared. Your letters, cards,telephone calls, visits andflowers helped enormouslyin getting us through theearly weeks, as has all thepractical help we have re-ceived. My gratitude too toeveryone associated withthe funeral organisationand ceremonial and to allwho attended.

You have all helped somuch more than you couldever know.

Dean had been activelyinvolved in raising moneyfor Guide Dogs for theBlind and I know that fundraising is to continue, andthat the dog bought andtrained will be named Taffin his memory.

Sincere thanks, too, tothe ship's company con-cerning the auction of hisuniform. When this wasfirst mentioned, I wastaken aback, not under-standing the naval tradi-tion involved. I have sincerealised that this is ship'scompany's way of provid-ing for the family of amuch-loved colleague andI thank you for your gener-osity. Thank you for caringfor may son. — MargaretSanders (Mrs.), Swansea.

THE letter "Double stan-dards down below"(October edition) fromMr. T. Williams raises anumber of interestingpoints.

Firstly, when the Depart-ment of Trade assess ex-naval applicants' eligibilityfor the award of their engi-neering certificate, theyconsider each individual'sacademic standing (InitialTraining) and his sea ser-vice. The former is based onengineering qualificationsand the latter on experienceof propulsion systems ofvarious types and poweroutputs.

Sadly, while Mr. Williams'engineering experience wouldhave been credited towards thesea service for a higher certifi-cate class than Class IV, hisCity & Guilds qualif icat ionwould not meet the higher aca-demic requirement.

It appears likely that Mr.Wil l iams actual ly took hisM e c h a n i c i a n ' s Course inDecember 1975 to 1977 andtherefore just missed the intro-duction of the awarding of aBTEC certificate, which givesexemption from some DoT ex-amination subjects.

It is recommended that thoseconsidering joining the Mer-chant Marine should obtain thevery useful briefing pack fromthe Department of Transport,Marine Directorate, SunleyHouse, 90 High Hplborn, Lon-don or by phoning 071-4056911.

Secondly, there is a wider is-sue of being able to "crystal-lise" existing experience gained

throughout a Service careerinto a transferable qualifica-tion. This is currently beingaddressed using the Govern-ment's National VocationalQualification Scheme. ThroughAccreditation of Prior Learn-ing, a valable qualification canbe ga ined re t rospect ively ,based on a Serviceperson's en-tire training package and skillsdevelopment.

A DCI will be publishedshortly which discusses theNavy's progress on NVQs anddescribes the APL route toBusiness Administration andManagement qualifications forr e s e t t l e m e n t cand ida tes .Further information is avail-able from Education and Reset-tlement Officers.

The final message to thoseleaving the Service is, seekearly advice from the Resettle-ment Officer and do yourhomework. Civilian employeesdo recognise the value ofrecruiting ex-Servicemen; youin turn must know and meettheir requirements. — L. P.Brokenshire, Cdr. Directorateof Naval Education and Train-ing Support, MOD, London.

O D DMOD views on resettlement

have undergone major changesin the last couple of years andthis can only be to the good forpersonnel who are due to move

away from the "Service fam-ily". More emphasis is beingplaced on resettlement being acareer-long activity and, whilenot wishing to ask people todeviate from their devotionand duty to the Service, every-one must look to the "lifehereafter".

The MOD must keep uppressure on civilian organisa-tions to recognise the skills andachievements of Servicemen,especially those in "generalist"type jobs. But as someone whohas been outside for two years,I would urge everyone to lookat evening classes and corre-spondence courses to preparethem for civvy street.

A considerable number ofpeople do not know what theywant to do on leaving the Ser-vice, so talk to your Resettle-ment Officers and get their ad-vice on how your present skillscan be translated to jobs out-side and, following on fromthat, what long-term coursesare available to prepare you forthose jobs.

Using your Reset t lementorganisation is the best invest-ment and pension plan you canevery have for when you leavethe Services. — R. I. F. Dixon,MBIM, MITD, Lieut . -Cdr.(retd.), East Brackley, ByKinross.

FLOWINGWITH MILK

AND HONEYTHE recent correspondence about the Exodus/Presi-dent Warfield has raised much interest.

I was serving in HMSChieftain as the ship's Yeo-man of Signals when thePresident Warfield wasboarded, and Mr. P. Farr'srecol lect ions are q u i t ecorrect.

The usual method ofboarding was by lashingmessdeck tables to the for-ward stanchions and thenthe boarding party swarm-ing across on the given sig-nal, led by the first lieuten-ant , as the ships camealongside and the messdecktables were crashed down.

Some of our boarders werethrown overboard by the irateimmigrants, hence the presenceof a rescue ship. Our chapswere armed with nothing morelethal than chair legs, etc.

We could not use mess tablesfor boarding the PresidentWarfield she was far too bigwith a high counter. I have asnapshot showing w h a l e r salongside her. If memory servesme, we boarded 17 vessels byway of the messdecks tables.

UnpleasantThe President Wartield was

loaded with tons of food pro-vided by American sympath-isers. All this was used to repelboarders. By the end of the en-gagement the Chieftain wasknee-deep in mashed potatoesand every sort of vegetable andfruit. Cans were especially welldirected.

I raised my tin helmet on thebridge to pass a message to theother destroyers by VHP whena well-aimed tin of Carnationmilk put me out of the opera-tion for a while.

I was part of this operationfor nearly two years. It was amost unpleasant period of mynaval career — the thought ofhaving to manhandle, albeitwith all possible kindness, theseformer inmates of the Naziconcentration camps and delaytheir arrival at their nationalhome. — J. Adams, Alresford,Hants.

I REMEMBER when the Presi-dent Warfield was moored inthe River Torridge, Nor thDevon in 1943-44. She wasused by the US Navy as an HQand accommodation. I wonderif any ex-Combined Opps,MTB and MMS personnelbased at Appledore across theriver remember her? — H. E.Moss, Ex-Chippy, Royston,Herts.

• Thanks to all other corre-spondents who wrote concern-ing the Exodus/ex-PresidentWarfield.

Baffled bybell and birdI WONDER if any readersmight be able to shed somelight on how the bell from HMSHornet (which was commis-sioned in 1911 and saw actionduring the First World War)came to be in my local cattlemarket?

As a lad I used to go to watchthe cattle being sold and hearthe bell telling everyone it wasauction time. Until this week Idid not know it was a ship'sbell.

It was used every week from1938 in the cattle auctionbuilding in Spalding until early1992, being removed to thelocal council offices when thecattle market closed last May.— K. W. Sharman, Ex-AB(1969-75) and RNA member,Spalding, Lines.

DOES anyone know the how,why and wherefore of an AEWGannet resting in what appearsto be a back garden on the out-skirts of Circencester fringingthe A4517 ring road?

It seems an odd resting placefor such a hefty aircraft which,incidentally, appears to be invery good condition.

It has intrigued me for someyears now. Someone mustknow the answer among yourreaders who are ex-FAA. — A.A. Wheeler, Ex-steamer, 8aHolmes Crescent, Wokingham,Berks.

Badge of allour tribe

DURING a recent reunion Ihad the pleasant occasion tovisit one of my old establish-ments. While standing on theparade ground where I hadspent many hours over the 25years I served in the RN, I wasapproached by a PO and wasasked my business.

I could not give a satisfactoryanswer, as reminiscing was notenough, but eventually I wasable to talk my way out of hisdilemma.

I am well aware that nowa-days security is essential, butwhat I would like to ask is,when you leave the Servicecould you not be given a badgeto wear to prove that you haveserved in the RN? — G. Baird,Ex-CPO, Dundee, Tayside.

LETTERS to the Editorshould always be accom-panied by the correspon-dent's name and address,not necessarily forpublication.

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Vexillological questionsI AM conducting research into naval flags and ensigns andwonder if your readers can answer some of my queries.

My first question relates to the extraordinary "White Ensign"shown in the photograph. Can anybody identify it? I believe it maybe connected with the Merchant Services and probably dates fromthe early 1900s. The red border goes round three sides only.

Closer to home, can anyone throw light on the origin of the ClearChannel Flag which is flown by QHM at Semaphore Tower inPortsmouth to control ship movements in the harbour? It is a redflag with a white stripe running from upper hoist to lower fly. Howold is it and did it ever have any other use?

Sea Cadet Corps vessels wear a blue masthead pennant. Is thispennant used anywhere else (in the Commonwealth or Dependantterritories perhaps)?

What is the origin of the Convoy Commodore's distinguishing flag— the blue St. George's Cross?

When was the Naval Ordnance Ensign flown for the last time, andhas anybody got on, or a picture of one in use?

Can anyone throw light on the history of the Fishery flag. It is ofconsiderable lineage but its origins are obscure.

Any help with these questions will be very gratefully received,along with any other unpublished snippets about the subject which

readers may have stored away in their flag lockers. — M. J. D.Farrow, Cdr., Deputy Marine Services Manager, Semaphore Tower,HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3LT.

NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993 7

Refugehas aRoyalvisitor

THE Princess Royal, seen (inset) leaving CrathieChurch near Balmoral with Cdr. Tim Laurence aftertheir wedding last month, had earlier called at GutterTor Refuge on Dartmoor to meet young traineesfrom HMS Raleigh getting a taste of outdoor life.

They undertake Re-source and Initiative Train-ing — which here involvedbrewing up hot chocolateto fortify them for a day'shard trekking — at the endof their fourth week at Ra-leigh, which purchased thethree-acre refuge site in1989.

The Princess took to thesaddle for a ride acrossthe moor with Lieut.-Cdr.Rick Evans, Lieut. RogerSaynor and Cpl Bustany towatch abseiling and rockclimbing by a class ofStewards at a later stagein their specialist trainingand Ship's CompanyWrens from the Raleighstaff. (See also page 35).

MANY tears may havebeen shed over the paradeground at Whale Island —and perhaps by the ParadeTraining Officers most ofall.

But maybe few will mournas these past PTOs andChief sof-the-Parade (CaptainJohn Wells leading the obse-quies) for the cry "Lad — ifyou can march smartly ongravel you can march smartlyanywhere" much employedby the old "gas and gaiter"instructors may be heard nomore.

The "gravel patch" — for solong centre focus of the Gun-nery School where Divisions,Company and Battalion Drilland State Ceremonial werepractised to the sound ofcrunching boots is to go undertarmac.

For all those who received"go round again" chits forfailing to keep in step or weresent, rifle held above head,doubling round the parade for

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The spiceof life

"IT ain't half wet, mum ..." Thirty years ago L Coy 42 Cdo RM Landed atLimbang, Sarawak, just across the border from Brunei.

Led by Capt. Jeremy Moore — later Maj.-Gen. Sir Jeremy Moore — they com-mandeered some boats and rescued the British Resident and his wife in the face ofintense terrorist fire.

This time M Coy were back in Sittang Camp, Brunei for the annual jungle trainingperiod that helps make that sort of operation possible, wherever it is required.

It hasn't changed much. To be able to function and fight in any hostile environ-ment you have to learn to live with it — and building shelters, and animal trappingare traditional skills as much as cross-country navigation and setting and avoidingambush.

The heat and humidity are fierce — once under the jungle canopy you are wetuntil the time you leave it. There are plenty of bugs that bite and sting, scorpions,snakes and plants designed to make progress as difficult as possible — as theselads with attached ranks from Mortar and Assault Engineer Troops found in Exer-cise Curry Trail.

That's what is looks like they're up to their necks in, curry. Must have felt like it,too.

Anyway, it makes a change from the freezing wastes of Norway — and variety'sthe spice of life, they say. Pictures: PO(Phot) Al Campbell

Last Navy Days before the Prince of WalesOPENING Navy Days at Hong Kong —for the last time at HMS Tamar beforethe move to Stonecutters Island thisyear — was The Prince of Wales, visit-ing for a few days on his way back fromKorea.

It was in front of The Prince of Walesbuilding, in fact, that he appeared to be re-galed by lion dancers, watch the displayparachutists drop onto the narrow promon-tory that serves as the HQ's helipad and cuta massive cake made by the Servicechurches.

As well as the Hong Kong Squadron PatrolCraft, ships of the US and Royal AustralianNavies and Hong Kong Police and Fire Ser-vice vessels were open to visitors — 22,000over two days helping to raise HKS300.000for charity.

Among the dispays were a mock assaulton a suspected smuggler by the Royal Mar-ines, abseiling from helicopters and speed-ing to the attack in their fast pursuit craft.

All seats were filled for arena displays byfive bands, the dog unit, gymnastic teamsand a local Sea School.

Left — Prince Charles receives a bouquetfrom Mrs Yin Ching (86). representing theNeighbourhood Community for the Elderly.

• Above — 76mm. inch gun blazing, HMSPlover storms into Victoria Basin to the de-light of the watching crowds.

Vanguard heraldsa new design for

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SM10WHEN the new Trident missilesubmarine HMS Vanguard joinsthe Tenth Submarine Squadron atFaslane, replacing the Polarisboat, HMS Revenge, the squad-ron's badge, depicting the crestsof the four Resolution-class sub-marines, would become obsoleteand in need of replacement.

In a competition to design anew badge, open to all SM10members, the eventual winnerwas Don Harley, serving at thetime as a Lieutenant in HMSRenown.

Like all good heraldic designs,the new badge incorporates anumber of relevant symbols — atrident, for the new submarinesand a Polaris star, representingthe remaining older boats, bothsuperimposed on a white saltire(the Roman 10) all on blue, togive a background of the flag ofScotland, where the squadron isbased.

Picture, right — the Polaris sub-marine HMS Resolution (displace-ment 8,500 tons dived) follows hernew big sister, HMS Vanguard (dis-placement 15,000 tons dived) intoLoch Long.

Picture inset — During his first vis-it to HMS Vanguard since shearrived at Faslane, Flag Officer Sub-marines, Rear Admiral (now Vice Ad-miral) Toby Frere, presents Capt.Mike Gregory of the Tenth Subma-rine Sqn with the new squadronbadge.

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Pail riders!PO Chris Blowes turned to his fellow shipmates to helpraise cash as a "thank you" to the hospital who helpedsave his Mum's life.

The willing members of the ship's company of RFA Arguswere happy to help and organised a two-day non-stop 350-mile cycle ride from Portsmouth to the doors of DarlingtonMemorial Hospital.

Chris's Mum was treated for breast cancer five years agoand since then has been a keen fundraiser for the hospital.Chris decided he, too, would like to help and the arduous rideraised nearly £1,700 for a computer to aid the diagnosis andtreatment of breast cancer.

On their arrival at the hospital the lads were met by MrMichael Edwards, the consultant surgeon in charge of thedepartment, and were given a warm welcome by hospitalstaff.

Pictured in the grounds of Darlington Memorial Hospital are,back row, LAEM Dicky Davis, CPOSA Jim Challinor, NA(MET)Stevie Lapham, LMA Sean McLeer, LA(SE) Mick Jardine andRPO Joe Mulgrew; middle row, NA(AH)s, Jimmy Jones, AndyHarmon and Kev Bardsley, LA(AH) Al Stone, CPOSA DaveCross and SG1A Shaun Finn; front, Mr Michael Edwards andPO(MET) Chris Blowes.

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Stroke of good fuckOFFICER of the Watchcourse 124 at HMS Dryadpulled a few fast strokesduring a charity swim atHMS Temeraire andraised £432 in aid of thePaulsgrove CommunityCentre for the mentallyhandicapped.

Members of the club, ac-companied by some of theirhelpers, were met on boardHMS Warrior by Capt. FraserMorgan where the bumpercheque was handed over byCommander of UnderwaterWarfare, Cdr. James Fan-shaw, Sub.-Lieut. Nick Dig-gle and Sub.-Lieut.Alexander.

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THE 13th Tri-Service Wheel-chair Fun Marathon, held atRAF Locking, proved to be agruelling but enjoyableevent for teams from SA272at the RN Supply School,HMS Raleigh.

JASA Barnfield, ASABrown, ASA Ives and ChrisHills were among those whohelped raise £537 for theBritish Sports Associationfor the Disabled.

Lots ofmoney

TV personality Rosemary Fordhelped a charity auction, heldon board HMS Intrepid, raisemore than £2,000 in aid ofGreat Ormond Street Hospital.I t e m s u n d e r t h e h a m m e rranged from a meal at a toplocal restaurant to an EnglebertHumperdinck CD!

On the right track

GLASGOW Shopmobility have benefitedby over £800 thanks to personnel standingby HMS Monmouth during her build at Yar-row Shipbuilders.

A team of runners took part in the greatScottish Run (the Glasgow Half Marathon)and raised the money through sponsor-ship and a bucket collection along theroute.

Pictured handing the cheque over to Aida and

Len Scott are CPO(R) Barrie Sandilands,CCWEA Philip Travers, Lieut.-Cdr. Ian Gibson,LSA Gary Drew, PO(SEA) David Gwilliam, LSAChristopher Robinson, SA Michael Prescott,LREG Joe Gormley and CCMEA Colin Deeney.

HMS Monmouth, the latest Type 23 frigate tobe built and which is due to be accepted intoservice next month, raised another £300 withYarrow's workers during contractor's sea trials.

The money was presented to the ErskineHospital for ex-Servicemen by PO(SEA) DaveGwilliam and LMEM(M) John Glass.

NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993 11

Helping Hands

Juno bikers saddleup for one last timeSHIPS and establishments

throughout the Navyraised thousands ofpounds for the BBC's Chil-dren in Need Appeal.

A round-up of picturesand stories will be fea-tured in next month's Help-ing Hands.

BEFORE her decommis-sioning last month, fivemembers of HMS Juno'scycling team, pictured

Gift of sightfor the RNLI

THE Fleet Air Arm Officers Association made a gener-ous donation of £500 to the Aldemey RNLI to help thembuy a night vision sight

The cheque was presented to the coxswain and crewof Alderney Rid by LACMN Mark Singleton during anexercise with 772 Search and Rescue Squadron fromRN air station Portland.

Home drawfor Coventry

DURING a visit to Nassau, in the Bahamas, 15 members of HMSCoventry's ship's company took advantage of some well-earnedshore time to visit Ranfurly Children's Home.

Upon arrival the team quickly started work repairing the woodenstorm shutters and clearing the garden debris. As the morning pro-gressed the children became much bolder and several games ofbasketbafi provided an interesting diversion to the on-going work.

Most of the work was finished by mid-afternoon and, after manyphotographs were taken on the steps of the home, the workers werereturned to the air-conditioned comfort of HMS Coventry.

left, raced the 25-year-old lady back to Ports-mouth from Eastbourne,the ship's adopted town.

A puncture just outsidePor t smouth prevented theteam from beating the ship butthey were given a warm wel-come on their arrival homehaving raised over £500 for theM u l t i p l e Sclerosis Society,which was presented to theEastbourne branch presidentMrs Janet Crist and chairmanMrs Lilian Stimpson.

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A detachment from the FirstMine Countermeasures Squad-ron HM ships Ledbury, Brock-lesby and Dulverton visitedRostock-Warnemunde dur ingtheir recent Baltic tour and oneof the main highlights was avisit to a children's home inLichtenhagen. The chi ldren,some from very deprived back-grounds, were delighted tomeet the Navy especially whenpaper hats, ships' models andlots of nutty were handed out.

D D D

A 38-mile speed march in aidof Guide Dogs for the Blind byRM detachment NP1002 inDiego Garcia raised over£2,400. During the march threeteam members had to retiredue to heat exhaustion but theremainder completed the dis-tance in nine hours and 55minutes, smashing the recordheld by USMC by a massive 12hours.

D D D

Personnel from HMS Drakevolunteered to help refugeesfrom war-torn Sarajevo by re-furbishing Marley Head House(formerly Sion Abbey) at SouthBrent. The spartan rooms werefurnished wi th beds, tables,chairs and wardrobes and anappeal has been launched forsecondhand toys. Raffles arealso being held to provide cashto buy toiletries to attempt tomake the refugees stay morecomfortable.

n n nOn a visit to HMS Dryad

chairman of the KGFS AdmiralSir Anthony Morton was pre-sented with a cheque for £8,000by the captain of the establish-ment Capt. Peter Franklyn .The money was raised during achar i ty golf compet i t ion atSouthwick Park Golf Club.

n n nPO Gus Keep of HMS Ra-

leigh completed a 167-milewalk around the Cornish coastand raised £450 for ImperialCancer Research.

Pellew 36 class, also fromHMS Raleigh, raised £284 dur-ing a sponsored walk on Dart-moor to enable members ofWoodland Fort Visually Im-paired Club to enjoy a Christ-mas meal.

D n nDuring the annual Dartmoor

Triathlon Lieut.-Cdr. KevinKing, from HMS Osprey, came20th out of 66 competitors andraised over £700 for MillfordSpecial School, in Plymouth.

n n nThe Royal Navy Stand at the

Birmingham Ideal Home Showraised £4,800 for the KGFS,much of it extorted by the starof the show Ordinary SeamanGEM the Robot.

D D D

Following the successfulcross-Channel relay swim by ateam from the HydrographicOffice, Rear Admira l JohnMyres Hydrographer of theN a v y , p r e sen t ed chequesamounting to £3,500 to theRNLI and St Margaret's Som-erset Hospice.

n n nThe Merseysidc Challenge

Beaujqlais '92 in aid of theMacmillan Nurse Appeal bene-fited by just over £2,000 thanksto POs Paul Hedgecock and JoeDunn from HMS Eaglet whotravelled from Liverpool toBeaune, southern France, andback covering the least milespossible.

n n n

ChurchservicedWHILE undergoing basichelicopter training with 705Sqn. at RNAS Culdrose, 58pilots' course membersraised £270 towards theFleet Air Arm MemorialChurch Appeal which willenable the once-derelictbuilding to be completely re-furbished.

Six course members alsospent two days clearing thegraveyard of weeds and rub-ble in preparation forreseeding.

Pictured receiving thecheque is Flag Officer NavalAviation Rear Admiral ColinCooke-Priest with Capt. IanMackenzie, of RN air stationCuldrose.

A Joint Service band of cy-clists from RAF Thatchamraised £550 for the ImperialCancer Research Fund bycycling along the towpaths ofthe Kennel and Avon andGrand Union canals from Bris-tol to Tower Bridge.

n n aAt a charity evening at HMS

Inskip £800 was raised to sup-port the ship's adopted charity,St C a t h e r i n e ' s Hosp ice ,Preston.

n n nLS Paddy Donnelly, of HMS

Glasgow, shed four and a half

stones on a sponsored slim andraised £1,500 for Yorkhili Hos-pital, in Glasgow.

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In response to an appeal byJanet Murray, who is sufferingfrom an inoperable brain tu-mour, Capt. Fabian Malbon,commanding officer of HMSInvincible, ran the Rock Racein Gibraltar and raised £1,000for the Cancer Research Cam-paign Team Up Appeal.

nanAll the proceeds from the

Faslane Fair have now beendistributed, with the main ben-eficiary, the Scottish Society forthe Mentally Handicapped, re-ceiving £3,000.

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LMSA Eastwood, from HMSCeres, the Leeds-based RNRC o m m u n i c a t i o n s T r a i n i n gCentre, handed over a chequefor £177 to Yorkshire CancerResearch. The money wasraised by members of the ship'scompany who undertook a gru-elling assault course at ThornbyBarracks, Bradford.

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Four-wheelcharity drive

AIM of a Joint ServicesTrans-World Expedition inApril-July 1994 is to traveloverland from Tierra delFuego to London, crossingen route the Straits of Ma-gellan, the Bering Straitsand the Dover Straits. Thejourney will be made infour-wheel drive vehicles,modified for the amphi-bious crossing.

Other a ims are to ra i semoney, through commercialand personnel sponsorship, forthe Save the Children Fundand to pursue a number of fieldresearch tasks.

Twelve personnel (male orfemale) will be present on theteam at any one time and theremay be places available on ashorter length roulement basis.

All applicants must be fit,outgoing and able to work well

in a team. In addition, a num-ber of specialist skills will berequired within the team, saysthe announcement, which pro-vides details of the initial appli-cation procedure.

DCI(JS) 99/92

Long list ofhang tips

FULL details are given of theprogramme of courses to be runby the Joint Services HangGliding Centre in 1993-94.

As well as its various courses,the centre also organises boththe annual Inter Service Cham-pionships and an annual JointSe rv ice f l y i n g e x p e d i t i o noverseas.

DCI(JS) 97/92

No boardsfor Coimns

DUE to a recently-imposed re-duction in Communicat ionsTechnician Branch recruitingrequirements, there will be nomore selection boards unti lfurther notice.

DCI(RN) 282/92

Air badgeflies again

RESTRUCTURING of the AirEngineering Sub-Branch wasdetailed in a 1992 announce-ment which also referred to thebadge which was being pro-duced for the all-trade AEMs.

The design now chosen for

'HGetWiseonDCIslithe badge is not new and ap-peared on badges in service un-til about 1981 when a restruc-turing of the sub-branch madeit obsolescent.

The same design, depictingthe basic aeroplane device withthe letters "AE" underneath, isbeing re-introduced and will beissued on successful completionof the ITC at HMS Daedalus.

Because ratings will remainin the all-trade category untiljoining LRQC, a second ver-sion of the badge with a starabove the basic device is alsobeing introduced for wear byable rates.

DCI(RN) 291/92

Holbrook still open to allUNTIL 1990, entry to the Royal Hospital School Holbrook,Suffolk, was restricted to the sons and grandsons ofseafarers. Legislation was then amended to allow theschool to become both open entry and co-education.

While the school Is proud of its naval heritage — and thepupils wear naval uniform for formal occasions — it is equallyproud of its academic achievements and forward-looking curri-culum. Some pupils leave on completion of their GCSE studiesto further their careers elsewhere, but most continue on to thesixth form to follow an Advanced Level course. The schooloffers 18 different subjects at A level.

The school has some 60 acres of playing fields, two squashcourts, a large gymnasium and swimming pool. There are also

extensive sailing facilities. A new library complex was built in1986 and the Jellicoe Design Centre was recently opened bythe Duke of York. There is specialist tuition for children withmusical interests, and a wide range of extra-curricularactivities.

Entry to the school is at age 11, 12, 13 and 16.The school is owned and subsidised by the Greenwich Hospi-

tal, a Crown charity under the trusteeship of the Defence Secre-tary and managed by the Admiralty Board. Fees are directlyrelated to the Services Boarding School Allowance. For thechildren of parents who have left the Service, or for the grand-children of seafarers, who are not entitled to the allowance,fees are charged on a sliding scale based on parents' income.

DCI (Gen announcement dated Nov 6 1992

Cutty Sarksail set

THE 1993 Cutty Sark TallShips race will take place in theNorth Sea in July and Augustand applications to take part inthe series are invited from Ser-vice crews.

The announcement pointsout that a "tall ship" is not nec-essary one of the great squareriggers. Any vessel in which atleast half the crew are agedbetween 16 and 25, and whichis over 30 feet watcrline length,can enter, and there are manysuitable yachts in service yachtclubs and at JSASTC.DCI(JS) 98/92

Weekenderat Lourdes

THE 35th International Mili-tary Pilgrimage to Lourdes willtake place over the weekend ofMay 14-17. This pilgrimage at-tracts many thousands of Ser-vice personnel and their fam-ilies from all over Europe andbeyond and, although intendedprimarily for Catholic person-nel , al l d e n o m i n a t i o n s arewelcome.

Additional information may

be obtained from local RCchaplains.DCI(JS) announcement dated

Nov 20 1992

Cutbackscost deer

THE Services Branch of theB r i t i s h Deer Socie ty wasformed in 1979 as part of theMOD c o n s e r v a t i o n pro-gramme. It is linked with theBritish Deer Society, a nationalassociat ion organised on aregional and area basis withmembers who are interested indeer and their welfare.

The Services branch has asubstantial membership from awide spectrum of ranks andages, but redundancy is takingits toll and more recruits aresought.

Objects of the branch includeproviding a central point otcontact for MOD personneland their families who might beable to assist in observing andreporting on deer in their parti-cular MOD areas.

Service personnel and MODcivilians who become regularmembers of the British DeerSociety automatically becomem e m b e r s o f the S e r v i c e sBranch providing they registeras detailed in the announce-ment. DCI(Gen) 279/92

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torian ironclad HMS Warriorand the Royal Naval Museum.

The combined ticket offersa greater flexibility and allowsmore time to be spent at eachship or museum. It is valid for12 months from the date ofpurchase and visitors canreturn at any time they chooseto complete their tour of allthe attractions.

The new Super Saver adultticket costs £10.50 (a savingof £1.50) while senior citizens,children and students also

In response to demand, theSuper Saver will admit visitorsto HMS Victory, the Tudorwarship Mary Rose, the Vic-

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THE Royal Navy winner of theBritish Gas Energy EfficiencyAward for 1992 was the Hydro-graphic Office, in Taunton -the first time a Defence Sup-por t A g e n c y h a s w o n t h eaward.

For their efforts the Hydro-grapher Rear-Admiral Myresreceived a trophy, a plaque and£1,000 for establishment fundsfrom the Under Secretary ofState for Defence, ViscountCranbornc at a ceremony atRNC Greenwich.

The Hydrographic Office ex-ceeded the annual three percent ministerial target of reduc-ing energy consumption overfive years by a further two percent, resulting in a saving incash terms in excess of £ 11,000.

The judges also consideredthat both HM naval base Ports-mouth and RN air station Yeo-vil ton should receive h igh lycommended awards in theform of a plaque.

benefit from concessions.Family groups of two adultsand up to four children canhave a day out for £27.50,almost half the normal price.

• Despite the recessionwhich has hit the tourism in-dustry HMS Victory welcomed400,000 visitors last year, anincrease of over three percent, on 1991.

Yacht rescue awardPICTURED receiving a special 1992 Silk Cut National RescueAward from Sir Peter de la Billiere is LACMN Brian Buggins from772 Squadron, RN air station Portland.

LACMN Buggins was presented with the award for his out-standing courage in saving the yacht Sandpiper during a ForceNine storm last August

When the Sandpiper ran into difficulties close to the notoriousKimmeridge Ledges, 15 miles east of Weymouth, LACMN Bug-gins was lowered on to the violently pitching deck of the tinyyacht where he found the skipper nursing a minor head injuryand suffering from exhaustion while his female crew was toofrightened to leave the cabin.

After helming for more than an hour in Force Nine winds hesecured a towline to the yacht passed from the WeymouthLifeboat and then organised the airlift of both crew.

The first transfer of the woman was uneventful but before thesecond transfer could be undertaken the yacht was hit by a'large wave and the skipper washed overboard.

without a moment's hesitation LACMN Buggins dived intothe sea, swam to the casualty and both men were winched tosafety.

Summing up his nomination the commanding officer of RN airstation Portland Capt. Alistair Ross said: "Throughout the res-cue LACMN Buggins displayed a high degree of professional-ism, calmness and sound Judgement. By diving into the sea inthose conditions he also displayed extreme courage which, inail probability, saved the man's life."

Naval observersdo the Continental

Supply projectONE hundred and forty years on from the original launch of theship Supply, the Royal Navy's Supply School at HMS Raleigh hascommissioned a new t ra in ing facil i ty, a simulated ship's storeroom,also appropriately named Supply

STUDENT observers from 59 Basic Observercourse based at 750 Squadron, RN air stationCuldrose, have taken part in a Long Range Con-tinental Navigation Exercise in Berlin.

The T2 fixed-wing Jetstream aircraft flew intothe US Air Force base at Templehof for theexercise which was the culmination of the diffi-

cult and intensive 32-week course, testing allthe skills the students had learnt duringtraining.

The students have now moved on to furtherAdvanced Flying Training at 706 or 849 NAS atRN air station Culdrose and 702 NAS atPortland.

The storerooms are the cul-minat ion of a project whichstarted two years ago and havebeen built from original equip-ment taken off HMS Bristolwhen she decommissioned.

They are designed to simu-late the storerooms of a sea-going ship and will give StoresSupply Ratings t ra in ing experi-ence in using them.

Screen 2TWO upstairs rooms in theBlue Lamp Coffee Bar, inHMS Nelson, have been of-ficially opened by Commo-dore Roger Lowndes.

The Odeon Cinema (sat-ellite TV and video room)and the library welcomedguests on the first anniver-sary of the official openingof the club.

New edge to Renown's performanceTWENTY-FIVE years after shelaunched the HMS Renown,Lady Healey — whose hus-band Denis was then Secre-tary of State for Defence —attended the second Polarissubmarine's rededication atRosyth.

Lord and Lady Healey werethere to see the traditionalcake cut by the wives of thePort and Starboard command-ing officers, Mrs Amanda Her-man (left, assisted by 18-year-old Seaman Carl Cheshire)and Mrs Susan Morris, withSeaman David Wardman, also18.

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NO LAMEEXCUSESI'LL BETHERE!

LIEUT.-Cdr. Colin deMowbray blithely com-pleted a BuckinghamPalace questionnaire,stating he had no walk-ing difficulty or physicaldisability to hamper himat the medal award cer-emony at which he wasto receive the MBE.

The following day, hav-ing sent the questionnaireoff, his leg was badly bro-ken in a cycling accident.Some days into his recov-ery, but still confined to ahospital bed, he ruefullyamended his f i rs tresponse.

Colin, on FONA's Staff,Yeoviltpn, responsible fororganising the Royal NavalReserve (Air) Branch, wasmobile in time for theinvestiture.

After the ceremony hesaid, "I was touched bythe Queen's concern. Reci-pients normally withdrawby walking backwards.Seeing this might be diffi-cult for me on crutches,she suggested that I turnand hobble off normally.'No thank-you, Ma'am I'vepractised going astern!'Luckily I didn't fall over."

At the same ceremony,Colin's good naval friendof over 25 years, Cdr. Jer-emy Hurlbatt, was awardedthe QBE. Working in Bath,he is responsible for theprocurement of seaman-ship equipment.

Gongs allround

PO ANDY Thayer. who'thknown ath Leo, of the Ar-mament Systems Divisionat Boscombe Down, wastreated to an unusual medalpresentation ceremony.

He was presented with hisLong Service and Good Con-duct medal by Group Capt.Chris Lampard RAF Superin-tendent of Armament DivisionAt the same time his ASD col-leagues Fit.-Lieut. Andy Dayand Sgt. Mike Barncoat REMEreceived Gulf War medals.

Ben buys acommissionfor the day

HAVING bid the handsome sum of £72 for the privilege,AB(EW) Ben Rothwell became HMS Chatham's captain fora day during her return from Armilla deployment.

Command of the frigate hadbeen auctioned in aid of one ofBen's messmates, JRO NeilFrancis, tragically paralysedfollowing an accident in a Du-bai swimming pool.

As the real CO, Capt. TonyHogg, demoted h imse l f toLeading Seaman and "Cap-tain's doggy", Ben assumed

command, presiding over Cap-tain's Defaulters and drivingthe ship during a man over-board exercise.

"Capt. Rothwell" spent anevening relaxing in the cap-tain's quarters, luxuriating inthe captain's bath and throwinga dinner party, attended by fel-low Man United fans and theCO's Leading Steward.

People in the Mews

MEET THY NEIGHBOURGETTING to know you— better late thannever. CWEM(R) Bill An-drews and LReg James(Soapy) Watson bothjoined the Royal Navy atHMS St Vincent in Cos-port as 15-year-olds;Bill in 1965 and Soapythree years later.

The two are now leavingthe RN, finishing their Ser-vice careers at HMS St Vin-cent (Commcen Whitehall)in London.

The pair didn't knoweach other during theirNavy careers until theymet at Commcen, then dis-covering they'd not onlyjoined at the same estab-lishment but that theirhomes are just round thecomer from each other inPlymouth.• Commcen Whitehall

was named HMS St Vin-cent in April 1992 after theClosure of HMS St Vincent(Furse House).

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HMS Boxer's operations department Petty Officer Seamenthink their seniority and sea service will take some beating.

Between t h e m t h e y ' v e"clocked up" a total of 159years service and have servedin no fewer than 68 ships. Only38 of the years have been spentshoreside, including all time ontraining courses. Can that bebeaten?

HMS Boxer has just returnedfrom the Orient 92 deployment.

The pyramid of POs, pictured byPO(Phot) Fez Parker, comprises(back row 1-r) PO(SEA)(R) AndyCarter and PO(SEA)(S) Steve Rowe;(middle 1-r) PO(SEA)(R) GingePlummer, PO(SEA)(R) Scouse Ha-bib and PO(SEA)(S) Terry Whitty:(front 1-r) POS(SEA) Charlie Drake,PO(SEA)(R) Harry Heaseman, PO-(SEA)(S) George Forster and PO-(SEA)(EW) Sting Wray.

Go to thetop of

the classCORE Robert Fisher, Com-mandant of the Royal Na-val Staff College, Green-wich, presented Sub-Lieut.Neville Bryce (below) withthe 1991 Caledonia Prize.

Presented on behalf of theCaptain HMS Sultan, the prizecommemorates HMS Caledo-nia and is awarded annually tothe ex-Caledonia apprenticewho, as an S D ( E ) ( M E ) or(MESM) candidate, achievesthe highest marks in the profes-sional qualifying examination.

Neville, who was promotedin October, is currently on thenuclear reactor course in theDepartment of Nuclear Scienceand Technology at Greenwich.After further training, he willjoin his first nuclear submarinein August.

Write onRachael

IT WAS smiles all roundwhen WrenWtr RachaelThomas, currently serv-ing at the Royal Navy'sSchool of MaritimeOperations, HMS Dryad,was named TraineeWriter of the Year.

Rachael, who joined theNavy in April, was present-ed with her trophy by MrBrian Eminence of theRoyal Naval Writers Asso-ciation. On hand to con-gratulate her was the cap-tain of HMS Dryad, Capt.Peter Franklyn.

RIVAL CREWHAS THE

LAST LAUGHWHEN AEM Scott Barnett (Culdrose) won a place in theTall Ships Race through the Lloyds Bank Award for Endea-vour he thought he was in for a holiday — but although thevoyage proved anything but a cushy number, he rated it anexperience of a lifetime.

Scott joined the 300 ton.three-masted topsail schooner.Sir Winston Churchill, in Fin-land. Seventy-two ships tookpart in the race, including STSSir Winston Churchill 's sistership, STS Malcolm M i l l e r ,which had an all-female crew.

During Scott's leg of the TallShips Race, the Sir Winston

Churchill answered a maydaycall 10 miles from the finish,but she still reached Kiel infourth place.

There in port to greet her wasthe Malcolm Miller, completewith banner in the rigging read-ing "Gone to town — your din-ner's in the oven. The Girls."

Land-lubberputs to sea

WHEN HM Submarine Talent steamed into Gibraltar for avisit, one of her crew was most surprised to find that heknew the reception committee rather well.

AB Brian McDonnell wasgreeted by none other than hisfather, Maj. Brian McDonnellof the Royal Anglian Regiment.Brian Snr, who is a Staff Offi-cer at Headquarters Bri t ishForces Gibraltar, went out inthe pilot boat to greet thesubmarine.

"I knew my dad was on theRock," said Brian Jnr. "But Ihonestly did not expect him tocome on board while we wereat sea — he much prefers tohave both feet f irmly on dry

land!"

Rock rolesPO(R) Steve White and LADave Thexton have receivedHerbert Lott Awards from Cdr.M i k e Hawke, c o m m a n d i n gofficer of HMS Rooke. Steve'srecognised his part in reorgan-ising the Gibraltar Small BoatSection and Dave's his role informing the Joint Service Pho-tographic Section on the Rock.

MODESTY WON'T WASHNOT just white but Brilliant white, as the soap powder adssay — and Brilliant white is the standard set by HMSBrilliant's laundry crew, Mr Kang Shik Ming and his No. 2,Mr Chow Shing Tai.

The pair have been presented with their Gulf CampaignMedals by the commanding officer of the Brilliant, Capt.James Burnell-Nugent.

Mr Kang started as a laundry man in 1953 when he joinedthe submarine depot ship HMS Tyne, based in Singapore.He became a contractor in the early 70s and now provideslaundry services for nine ships.

This latest decoration is his fourth medal since joiningHMS Brilliant from build in 1981. He received the BEM forservices in the South Atlantic Campaign.

Mr Chow has been a laundryman for a mere 20 years. Hejoined HMS Brilliant in 1985.

Reasonable suspicion

TWO Petty Officers from the air engi-neering department at RN air station Cul-drose felt the long arm of the law recent-ly _ but It was extended incongratulation.

POs Tony Willis and Andy Shoveiar, pic-tured either side of Chief Superintendent Ed-die Hallelt at Camborne Police Station In Corn-

wall, have been honoured for goodcitizenship.

Having seen a man acting suspiciously in ashop, they challenged and detained him. Hewas later successfully prosecuted for a num-ber of offences of theft.

The commendations came form she ChiefConstable of Devon and Cornwall, Mr JohnEvans.

NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993 15

NICE WORKAS PART of HMS Drake'scommitment to implement-ing the Food Safety Act1990, a number of cateringpersonnel have successfullyundergone t ra ining and ex-amination through Plym-outh College of Fu r the rEducation.

Mr John Mayling. the col-lege's assistant principal, pre-sented I n s t i t u t e of Envi ron-m e n t a l H e a l t h O f f i c e r s 'In t e rn i cd ia t e and advancedcertificates to the successfulcandidates , seven of whomachieved credit passes at inter-mediate level.

Those receiving certificateswere Lieut. Fred Ackerman.WO Frank Gray. WO JohnWills, WO R. Page, C'PO JoshBostock, PO Brendan Mizzi,PO Dave G a l p i n , PO JedStone, CPO Phil Young andPO Colin Potter.

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A MONTH spent in Barba-dos on an exchange pro-ject was one of the high-lights ALS(M) JohnPollard's experiences inworking towards his Dukeof Edinburgh's GoldAward.

John, based in HMS Kent,Whale Island, also got to gripswith the sports of clay pigeonshooting and badminton andcompleted a four-day hikeacross Dartmoor on his way tostriking gold.

He fulfilled the Service sec-tion of the award scheme byhelping at a PHAB (physicallyhandicapped and able bod-ied) Club.

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A B ( M ) Jan Locket t andAB(SR) Russ Russel weresurprised to receive HerbertLott Awards from CaptainHydrograph ic SurveyingSquadron. Capt. RodneyBrowne during his recentvisit to HMS Beagle.

These recognised the out-standing efforts of the pair inmending a tide gauge in theScilly Isles while the ship wassome 100 nautical miles to thenorth surveying in the CelticSea.

During the surveying opera-tion, the ship must rely on atidewatcher to read the tides inthe Scilly Isles. Despite very-poor weather, Jan and Russworked through the night to re-pair the gauge, and this meantthat the Beagle could remain onthe survey ground.

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"I bet they'll want as much again as a store for the paper being pushed round in this.'

NEWSVIEWKeeping aneye on jobs

and paySINCE last month's edition, the outcome ofPhase 2 of the Royal Navy's redundancy pro-gramme has become known and, in large mea-sure, targets were achieved by voluntarymeans.

There were, however, some people dis-mayed to find themselves facing the prospectof compulsory redundancy — in all, 69 officersand 80 ratings were "non volunteers".

Despite these comparatively small numbersin today's cold world of job losses, they repre-sent inevitable hurt on an individual basis, notto mention a possibly problematical future.Colleagues who remain will hope that all wholeave, voluntarily or compulsorily, find that themaximum guidance available, personal deter-mination — and an upturn in the jobs market— will lead to further career opportunities.

ResignationThis column also touched last month on pay

limitations imposed on the public sector, in-cluding the Forces. Some will now have readreports that a senior member of the ArmedForces Pay Review Body, which was askednot to make military salary recommendationsfor 1993-94, has tendered his resignation.

He says he feels the Review Body (whichconsists of volunteers) has been "under-mined" and that the Forces, who depend on itto give objective advice, will feel let down.While accepting the Government's right to de-cide the level of Service pay, he believes thatAFPRB members have been made to look"subservient", not independent.

It has been stated that the Governmentwishes the AFPRB to resume its full role fornext year. Doubtless, personnel with theopportunity to meet Review Body members ontheir visits will support these sentiments inforceful Service style and in the expectationthat this is simply a "hiccup" in a procedurewhich has served well.

Meanwhile, as the uncertainties of Servicereorganisation and restructuring continue intoa new year — much of it the result of thedisappearance of the "certainties" of the coldwar — the dangers and disasters of a wickedworld remain only too apparent. So does theneed for a strong Service — and for the hardwork, loyalty and commitment which have longbeen its proud hallmark even in the most diffi-cult of times.

Work starts onPortsmouth HQCONSTRUCTION work has started on the three-storeycomplex which will provide 80,000 square feet of officesin a neo-classical building which is to become Head-quarters of the new Second Sea Lord/Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command organisation.

Harmonising with its histor-ic surroundings and oppositethe Parade in Portsmouth Na-val Base, the building (artist'simpression below) representsthe first major developmentwithin the dockyard conserva-tion area for over 200 years.

Excavation workThe task of clearing the site,

which began in October, involvedd e m o l i t i o n of four i n d u s t r i a lbuildings. Although none were ofhistoric significance or architec-tural merit, English Heritage havecontinued to monitor excavationwork.

The new HQ is scheduled to befully operational by the end ofMarch 1994 and will combine res-

ponsibility for personnel mattersthroughout the Service with the di-rection of the affairs of NavalHome Command in support of theFleet, and some other defence-related activities.

The decision to merge the twoorganisations forms pan of theslimming down and restructuringplans for MOD HQ, and aims toincrease efficiency and enableo p e r a t i n g e c o n o m i c s to beachieved.

RestructuringAll members of the staffs of the

two organisations will be signifi-cantly affected in the establishingof the new organisation, whose ad-vantages include the benefits ofdealing with a single authority.

About 100 fewer people wil l be

needed than are currently em-ployed in the two separate organi-sations. When the savings asso-ciated with disposal of Londonoffices and other items are added,this change alone reduces costs bymore than £30 million over thenext ten years.

OrganisationsMeanwhile, detailed work con-

tinues on the major task of integra-tion of the two organisations for itsestablishment early next year in itspurpose-built headquarters.

Scheduled too to be establishedby April 1994 — in the Bath area— is the new Naval Support Com-m a n d , u n d e r Chief of FleetSupport.

A new Headquar ters for theRoyal Marines will be set up inPortsmouth in April this year, ini-tially in interim accommodation inCreasy Block at HMS Nelson'sGunwharf site, moving to new offi-ces to be built on Whale Island bymid-to-late 1994.

ACCOMPANIED by Mr. StuartWaring, chairman of the con-struction company, AdmiralSir John Kerr, Commander in-Chief Naval Home Command,tries his hand at pouring con-crete into the foundations ofthe Headquarters now beingbuilt for the new Second SeaLord/CINCNAVHOME organi-sation.

NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993 17

London bridges the Gulfduring Allied operations

BURGERS, croissants, chips and vodka were on themenu for the ship's company of HMS London whenshe lead a flotilla of multi-national ships duringGULFEX XV.

HMS London, under thecommand of Capt. Mark Stan-hope, was faced with the taskof planning and running thelatest in a series of exercisesshortly after relieving HMSChatham as the RN's on-station warship in the ArabianGulf. The exercises usuallylast three days, attracting par-ticipants from all the Naviesoperating in support of UNsanctions against Iraq.

The aim of GULFEX XV wasto develop procedures forconducting combined opera-tions between the British,French, American and Rus-sian Navies and as such wasunique in that no other exer-cise has attempted to inte-grate the Russian Navy withso many other nationalitiessince the collapse of the for-mer Soviet Union and the War-saw pact.

Personnel exchangesbetween the ships proved tobe popular. Officers, seniorrates and junior rates fromHMS London made the mostof the chance to spend sometime living and working with

their counterparts during aseries of overnight visits toother ships. HMS London inturn welcomed on board sai-lors from the French frigateFS Georges Leygues, theAmerican Knox Class frigateUSS Fanning and the RussianUdaloy Class anti-submarinedestroyer The Admiral Vino-gradov.

Not surprisingly the Frenchship was voted as having thebest food while the Russianvodka posed its own particu-lar challenge!

While on passage to takeup duty in the Gulf HMS Lon-don also conducted a seriesof Passex exercises withAllied Navies as she crossedthe Mediterranean.

As part of the ship's NBCtraining these included a RASwith the US tanker Detroit infull protective clothing. TheRAS was conducted simulta-neously with the USS Phili-ppine Sea while Sea Knighthelicopters from the Detroittook the opportunity to jointhe three-ship formation whilethey were flying.

HIGHLIGHT of the helicopter exercises dur-ing Gulfex XV took place when HMS Lon-don's Lynx carried out deck landing prac-tice on the Russian Udaloy Class anti-submarine destroyer The Admiral Vino-gradov, while one of the Russian's two Helixhelicopters did the same on the London(pictured above).

HMS London's Flight Deck OfficerCWM(O) Kevin O'Reily was particularly sur-

prised to see the Russian Helix sporting acollection of Fly Navy stickers on its nosewhen he brought it in to land for the firsttime!

Meanwhile, pictured left, a Short Earedowl passed up the chance to go to sea in abeautiful pea-green boat and hitched a lifton a grey-coloured frigate instead.

The non-paying guest stayed on boardHMS London for four days during the ship'stransit of the Red Sea en route to the Gulf.

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WITH Options for Change and the announcement of redundancies in the Navy,some recently recruited sailors and Wrens can still manage a smile.

Commanding Officer of HMS Daedalus, Capt. David Newberry, is pictured sur-rounded by proud ratings who have just completed their initial training and whowill soon be embarking on their careers in naval engineering.

Picture: CPO(Phot) Stuart Antrobus.

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a Above, perfect positioning for two Sea Harriers of 801 WAS-an entry by POA(Phot) Joe Mercer,entitled "Nigh Noon."

Below, Peregrine Trophy winner, POA(Phot) Dizzy De Silva of 42 Cdo RM and two of the pictures fromhis portfolio - above, Sea King pick-up in the snows of Northern Norway: left, tropical shower for CplTaft Williams, Mortars Troop Support Company, during 40 Cdo exercises on the island of Curacao inthe West Indies,

TOP P11THE wide variety of pictures entered in this year'sFskills of the Royal Navy's Photographic Branch

Split-second timing, required for air-to-air shotsweather, underwater shots, and creative studio arc350 photographs entered.The pictures are also a most effective showca

marines shown at work and play, from the Cart

The competition was judged by Mike Riches. Chture Editor of the Press Association. Ken Bray. I'resthe British Institute of Professional Photography. anNicholas Harris, and the awards were presentedwinners at a London reception by Archie HarniftMinister for the Armed Forces.The Peregrine Trogh\ - awarded lot the hest porfl

PEREGRINE TROPHYRESULTS

WINNER of the Peregrine Trophy with the best portfolio ofsix prints.POAlPhotl Dizzy Dc Silva. 40 CdoMaritime TrophyPOA(Phol) Chris North. HMS Ark Royal

Royal Marines Portfolio

Al Phot) Lou l.cwis, 42 ('do

"Personnel at work" categoryPOA(Pho() Fez Parker, FOSF Photo (mit

Individual awardscolour

t'( tAt l'hot) ('bus North. HMS Ark Royal2. IUA( ('hot (: Parker. FUSE Pitolo tint3 (At l'hot Ton Power, Ft )SF Photo (i0 ,jMonochrome1. t.AtPhott Lewis. 42 (do2 LWREN(Phot( Dec 1-tepple, HMS lnvJnL,htc3, lAiPhot) l)a c I 'oornhs, FO5F Photo iflj

The results and winning pictures from the RN!VSEL Photographic Competition for the Navy'samateur photographers will be published in nextmonth's Navy News.

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;e for the Navy's variety of activities, world-wide, with sailors and)bean to the polar regions, from the Far East to Portsmouth.

et' Pie- six pictures from a photographic unit, went to POA(Phot)lento "Dizzy" Dc Silva. serving as unit photographer for 40Corn-1('apt. niando Royal Marines.

to the POA(Phot) Chris North of HMS Ark Royal gained the)n. the Best Colour Award (the winning photograph is shown on

the front page) and he also won the Maritime Trophy for theblio of best picture of a ship u

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Above, combining studioand darkroom techniques,LA(Phot) Tony Power'spicture (third, colour sec-tion) features CPOMT(P)Pat Dunleavy performingthe three sports that com-prise the triathlon, swim-ming, cycling and running.

Danger - "Personnel aWork." This category wawon by POA(Phot) Fez Parkeof FOSF Photo Unit with hishot (right) of LS Steve Lewisship's diver of HMS Boxerexamining the ship's propellors whilst at anchor ofCyprus.

Highly commended in thiclass was LA(Phot) PauSmith's picture (left) of nighoperations at RNAS Culdrosewith a Gazelle helicopter o705 NAS preparing for lift-off

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West approaches. This picture, by POA(Phot) Chris North (inset) of HMS Ark Royal, gained the

Maritime Trophy for the best ship/aircraft photograph.

CTURES OF THE YEAR

20 NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993

GUTS APLENTY BUT DON'T EXPECT TACTA MAVERICK at War is Sharkey Ward'ssubtitle to a highly personal account of hisexperiences flying a Sea Harrier Over TheFalklands (Leo Cooper £15.99).

Mavericks are defined in the dictionary as un-orthodox or independent-minded persons. Theoriginal Maverick was a Texas cattle owner whowould not brand his beef— and after reading thisbook Admiral Sandy Woodward might be excusedfor wishing to apply a hot iron to the hide of oneof his advisers on the direction of the air war.

There is no doubting Cdr. Ward's skill andcourage — he flew over 60 missions, himself scor-ing three air-to-air kills, was the Task Force'sleading night pilot and was decorated with theDistinguished Service Cross.

But as with so many other distinguished fighterpilots — Douglas Bader comes to mind — there isa hotly abrasive edge to him that makes for diffi-cult company. Diplomacy is not their strong suit

— no wonder they are at their best in the air,alone, with plenty of space in which to work offtheir frustrations.

Significantly, Ward feels he was "strong enougha character to influence events on the surface aswell as in the air." Now he suggests that tacticsused in deploying his Harrier screen may haveplayed a part in the loss of HMS Sheffield(although there were only 20 aircraft available tocounter an Argentine force ten times as big) andfurthermore that this might also have contributedto the destruction of the Ardent and the Coventry.

A reference to an earlier stage of his career —there is a drunken party that leads to a car smashand a flirtation with a pretty nurse — has a famil-iar ring; Ward sounds just like some of the fledg-ling "Few" of 40 years before.

His opinions of the hierarchy that was to directthe war of 1982 are not informed by the restraintthat comes with maturity either — Woodward

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may have been a submariner but he himself hasadmitted he was "not really used to airfields" andin the whole of this book he is mentioned directlyonly two or three times so if he "did not havemuch time for aviators or aviation", as Wardsuggests, then Ward doesn't seem to have hadmuch time for him either, in which case it wouldbe hardly surprising if he felt his own role was notsufficiently appreciated.

This may or may not be the case — and it is apity that such an undeniably compelling readshould be so shot through with a catalogue ofpersonal slights — and bitterness at the RAF inclaiming so much of the credit for the air war,when he feels their role to have been almostnegligible.

Too often, also, "Mr Sea Harrier's" perceptionsof the action in the South Atlantic seem to betrayan enjoyment of its savagery. When the Invinci-ble's Sea Dart mounting comes to life on the dayAtlantic Conveyor was set ablaze "it was to be the

most impressive sight of the war for me, bettereven than watching Mirages blow up in the sky."

This is the testimony of a controversial charac-ter — many of the criticisms packed into his storymay well be valid, but he did not have the mannerto make them stick.

But one should not judge a modern fighter pi-lot's character without appreciating the pressureshe comes under — his steed is indeed a highlyexpensive "national resource" compared with theproduction line aircraft of the world wars.

Ward appends an excellent "Layman's Guide toFighter Combat", in which the speed-dictated tac-tics of the dog fight are shown to justify "shootingyour opponent in the back."

"No quarter" is the watchword of this game —and the first rule is to know your aircraft andweapons systems backwards. Sharkey Ward did— and future generations of pilots will study himwith care.

— JFA

MOVIES FULLOF MENACE

Above: Bridget Fonda as Allison and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Hedra star in the psychologicalthriller Single White Female.

HARRISON Ford, that most down-to-earth of superstars, rounds off a hat-trickof heroes this month with the release of Patriot Games. After his Han Solo inthe Star Wars films and Indiana Jones in the Spielberg blockbusters, Ford hassigned up to play Jack Ryan, the CIA analyst of Tom Clancy's series of best-selling novels.

Patriot Games is first offthe production line andturns out to be a variationon the recent Cape Fear,with another Americanfamily menaced by a ber-serk killer. In this case,an IRA hit-man swearsvengeance after Fordkills his brother during abungled kidnap attempt.

The film incorporatesmuch authentic-seemingtechnology, notably in a bril-liant sequence showing araid on a terrorist camp asseen through the lens of aspy satellite — before finallyopting for good, old-fash-ioned melodrama, IndianaJones-style, with hand-to-hand combat aboard blazingspeedboats and so on.Further Ryan exploits will bereaching us idc.

Incidentally, the film's pro-ducers found themselves inhot water in the USA, wherevarious parties objected tothe "reactionary" portrayalof the IRA and the presenta-tion of that organisation ininsufficiently heroic terms.Discuss, with appropriateadjectives.

Single White Female pre-sents a nightmare scenariofor anyone on the lookout for

a flatmate. Successful com-puter programmer Allie ur-gently needs someone toshare her expensive New

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York apartment after sheejects a two-timing boy-friend. The likeable, rathermousey Hedy seems idealand duly moves in ... buthints that little Hedy may bea touch eccentric escalateuntil it becomes clear that infact she's a raving psycho-path with a history of homi-cide and Allie is in bigtrouble.

The last thirty minutes orso are memorably nerve-racking. Allie and Hedy areplayed, respectively, byBridget Fonda and JenniferJason Leigh and very wellplayed too.

Strictly Ballroom is anAustralian success story, atongue-in-cheek compen-dium of cliches (the under-dog who bucks the system,the ugly duckling who turnsinto a swan) which might bedescribed as a reworking ofthat hit from a few yearsback Dirty Dancing, done inthe style of a Christmaspanto.

Against the background ofthe District Ballroom DanceChampionships, the filmtells of Scott, disgraced andpartnerless after deviatingfrom the prescribed chore-ography and Fran, the be-spectacled, put-upon dogs-body. Are the two of themgoing to get together? IsFran going to blossom? Willthey triumph in the Grand Fi-nale? Is the Sydney OperaHouse in Sydney? Does Ma-tilda know how to waltz?

There's a real curiosityamong the recent video re-leases. The Inner Circle isset against the familiarbackground of life in Russiaduring the Stalinist purgesof the 1930s. However, thefilm provides a different takeon events by showing themthrough the eyes of theKremlin film projectionist (aperformance of barely con-trolled hysteria from TomHulce), who moves betweenthe comfort and luxury en-joyed by the "inner circle" ofthe title and the violenceand precariousness of lifeoutside it. Bob Hoskins con-tributes a chilling cameo asBeria, the KGB chief, des-tined for the firing squadhimself as the wheel ofoppression turns.

— Bob Baker

NAVY NEWS. J A N U A R Y 1993

At Your Leisure

A timely win for Goliathover troublesome David

TWO exceptionally finetechnical studies just re-leased by Conway Mari-time will settle any lin-gering doubts modelmakers may have overhow to spend t h e i rChristmas book tokens.

Both retail at £25 — goodvalue for products of thisquality.

Latest Anatomy of the Shipis The Battleship Dreadnoughtby John Roberts, who set thestandard for the first of theseries with his work on HMSHood. This one is easily themost detailed and impressiveso far. however, with over 650drawings and 40 photographsaccompanying a useful outlinehistory of the most famous re-volutionary warship design ofall.

Built at Portsmouth in 14months — a record that hasnever been equalled — Dread-nought's fame rests almost en-tirely on her novelty of con-struct ion and her awesomepotential, for the first of the allbig gun battleships never gotthe chance to test her firepoweragainst her enemy counter-parts, being in refit at the timeof Jutland.

She was, however, the onlybattleship ever to sink a subma-rine — an ironic triumph ofGoliath over David, for hervictim, rammed and sunk inthe North Sea on 18 March1915, was Otto Weddigen's U29, which spectacularly de-stroyed the cruisers Aboukir,Cressy, Hogue and Hawke atthe beginning of the war.

ProposalPerhaps even more revolu-

tionary — and risky — than herdesign was the proposal toadopt Parsons turbines, whichat the time had hardly beentested. Indeed secondary highpressure turbines fitted special-ly to provide economic use of

Fast andadaptableTHE de Havilland Hor-net was the ultimate intwin-engined fightersand one of the fastestpiston-engined aircraftin the world. Designedduring the final years ofthe Second World War,it was destined for ac-tion in the Far East, butthe Japanese surrenderforestalled this and itfirst entered service in1946 with FighterCommand.

Initially used as a bomb-er interceptor, it took uplow-level intruding whenenough jet fighters be-came available. When re-placed in Fighter Com-mand, the Hornet sawaction in the Far East.

In the Royal Navy, theSea Hornet was used asboth a fleet fighter and,with an additional crewmember, as an all-weatherfighter, operating from car-rier decks.

Find out more in LewisG. Cooper's The Hornet File(price £13.50 — membersof Air-Britain £9 — from AirBritain Sales Dept, 5 Brad-ley Road, Upper Norwood,London SE19 3NT).

HMS Dreadnought in January 1907, just prior to sailing on her experimental cruise.Picture — Public R

steam at cruising speeds wereeventually found to be redun-dant and represented deadweight that she would carry foralmost the whole of her career.

The second title deals withanother landmark of ship con-struction. In the heyday of sailthe major revolution came withthe introduction of a radicalnew type of cruising ship, thefrigate.

SpecificRobert Gardiner was editori-

al director of Conway for 15years and launched the Ana-tomy series — but although hehas published a good deal oforiginal research in the field ofsailing warship design The FirstFrigates is his own first book.It is designed to be the first in anew series outlining the devel-opment of specific ship types,based on the huge — and oddly

under-utilised — collection ofplans at the National MaritimeMuseum.

Here he deals with 9 and 12pdr fr igates of 1748-1815 ,offering some interesting side-lights on the old question of thesupposed superiority of Frenchdesigns. Early on, the NavyBoard conceded the inferiorsailing qualities of the Britishtwo-deckers — but insistedthey were "better ships of war"because they carried a heavierweight of metal and did nothave a large proportion of theircrews exposed to enemy fire onopen and l i g h t l y b u i l tupperworks.

Also from Conway is the16th edition of Warship, (price£24) the highly informed andvaried annual comprising es-says by well-known authoritieson design, development andservice history of the world'scombat ships.

As ever, obscure but intrigu-ing backwaters figure strongly— Romanian Second WorldWar submarine operations,shipboard balloons and theSwedish Sverige class of coastaldefence ships are typical of therange.

UnwillingThese last were introduced

by public demand. David G.Harris reminds us that neverbefore or since 1912 has a wes-tern nation's citizenry usedmass demonstrations, includ-ing a march on a royal palace,to force an unwilling govern-ment to strengthen naval de-fences — certainly such a de-gree of public support for extracash for warships seems unlike-ly in the present context.

More incredibly still, the ner-vous Swedes' agitations causedthe fall of the government and

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init iated public subscriptionsthat more than covered con-struction costs for the first ofthe heavily armed vessels thatwould be the kernel of theirfleet for a quarter of a century.

Elsewhere, in a review of theevents of May 1991-May 1992which features the potentiallyfar-reaching consequences ofthe collapse of Soviet commu-nism and the major arms pro-curement initiated by Iran. IanSturton observes that increaseddefence spending appears to bemore the consequence ofeconomic growth than of a con-scious arms race.

It is worth noting, he says,that Japanese GNP, alreadymore than half that of the USA,is likely to grow to 75 per centby 2000, when other industria-lising Asian nations will beoverhauling Western Europe.

— JFA.

IN WHICH WESERVED: STONEFRIGATES ANDSTATIC SHIPS

OUR REVIEW copy of Shore Establish-ments of the Royal Navy (Maritime Books) isalready showing signs of wear, so it willundoubtedly be a sound investment — evenfor anyone who has to part with £40 forwhat at first seems a pretty slim volume.

There are, in fact, some 2,700 entries packedinto its 160 pages — the product of ten years'research by Ben Warlow, who has certainlyplugged a significant gap; we have guides to war-ships galore, but nothing dealing with "stone frig-ates," which is remarkable since so many of ourreaders' queries have to do with non-seagoingships.

The first one was probably Diamond Rock, afortress off Martinique that was captured in 1804from which the term may have originated, thoughit is more likely to have been coined by somewitty matelot. In the Second World War the Roy-al Canadian Navy even commissioned an HMCSStone Frigate.

Not all the names included — such as Sheath-bill, given to the Forward Operating Base at SanCarlos in 1982 — are official. My favourite — orrather favourites — concern the destroyer Porcu-pine. When torpedoed and broken in two, eachhalf was taken into use as static accommodation.The sailors dubbed the forward section HMSPork and the stern half HMS Pine.

Many of these immobile ships were even moreshort-lived than those sent to sea in time of war —some only lasted a few days. Warlow has includedthose planned but not commissioned as well asthose of Commonwealth navies and Free Frenchestablishments, all with dates of operation.

There is also the useful addition of a gazetteerwhich incorporates unnamed RN air stations ofthe First World War.

Every RNA should have a copy — but now atleast we will have an answer when the Shipmatescall up to check the name of the bird whose neston the Rock was taken by Rooke.

— JFA

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The role of entertain-ment in maintaining publicmorale was never moreclearly stated than inWorld War II and Eric Tay-lor's latest gathering ofwartime celebrities inShowbiz Goes to War (Rob-ert Hale £15.95) is a reveal-ing series of anecdotes ofmusic hall and radio le-gends such as TommyHandley — who laid theground base for today'spolitical satirists with IT-MA's debunking of bothGovernment and Nazi pro-paganda — and film stars,some of whom were deser-vedly decorated for theirmorale-boosting tourswhile others won awardsfor gallantry in action.

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Meanwhile, laws relatingto nudity on stage in theWest End were relaxed asvoyeurism was seen to bea possible counter to theenticements of prostitutesfor troops on leave in thecapital. The windmill girlswere forbidden to move,but the newspapers "couldnot resist their readers'curiosity by going into thedetail of how the naughtybits have to be covered byflesh-coloured elastoplastand of the pain incurred inthe cause of art." — JFA

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At Your ServiceReunions Calling Old Shipmates

Regulating Branch Assn. is open to serv-ing and past members of the branch. Any-one wishing to join, contact Tony Cores on0705 253068 or P. Robertson, Flat 4. CrownCourt, 25 High St.. Old Portsmouth P012LE (tel. 0705 876131).

HMS Indefatigable Assn. will held theirthird reunion in Birmingham in April. Detailsfrom John Haward on 902 893389.

HMS Petunia (1941-45): The fifth reuniondinner will take place at the Angel Hotel,Royal Leamington Spa on May 7. Detailsfrom G. C. (Tanky) Shaw, 821 DorchesterRd Upwey Weymouth, Dorset DT3 5LB (tel0305 81 3372).

HMS Duchess (1963-64): To celebratethe 30th anniversary of the ship's commis-sioning at Portsmouth a reunion is planned.Members of her engine room department,particularly POME(E)s Battersby, Malvern,Allen, Janion. Lough, Ellis and MECH Mid-dleton, who wish to attend should contactex-CMEM John Green on 0522 751079

30th MTB Flotilla: 1994 marks the 50thanniversary of the commissioning of theFlotilla and it is proposed to hold a reunionin Ostend. Anyone interested contact L. J.Scarborough, Flat 12, Riverside Court,Calver Rd., Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1RD(tel. 0246 582422).

HMS Kenya Assn (1940-62): will hold amini reunion at Hartlepool RNA on April 2-3.Details from W. Boardman, 35 HolmleighRd., Liverpool L25 2SA (tel. 051 487 0093).

HMS Forester: Anyone interested in areunion contact Trevor Lloyd, 6 MatfordHill, Monkton Park, Chippenham, Wilts.SN15 3NX (tel. 0249 654420).

HMS Glasgow Old Boys' Assn. will beholding a reunion in Portsmouth on July 10-11 Details from Allan Mercer, 89 RoyalAve., Widnes, Cheshire WAS 8HJ (tel. 051424 7390).

845 Sqn. has decided to form an assocai-tion and in June/July there will be a 50thanniversary reunion at RN air station Yeo-vilton. Anyone interested in joining orattending the reunion contact Ned Parkin-son, 15 Ridgeway Close, Paulsgrove,Portsmouth PO6 4LT, enclosing sae.

L5T and Landing Craft Assn.: will hold asixth reunion in Ayr on May 18-20. Detailsfrom C. A. Illott, 59 Reynolds Rd.. Ipswich,Suffolk IPS OJW (tel. 0473 710722).

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nual reunion and dinner in Portsmouth onNov 14 where guest of honour was Capt.Jeremy Blackham. the c.o. of the presentHMS Ark Royal. They also attended a ser-vice at St. Ann's Church at which membersof the Arethusa Association were also pres-ent. Anyone wishing to join the Wartime ArkRoyals Association contact G. E. Denny, 25Andover Lodge, 94-98 Parkstone Rd.,Poole, Dorset BH15 20E (tel. 0202 716673).

846 Sqn.: To celebrate the 50th annive-sary of the founding of the squadron onApril 1 1943 all ex-members are invited toattend a celebration event at RN air stationYeovilton on April 1. The events will includepresentations, flying displays, lunch and anevening function. For details contact Sub.-Lieut. Miller on 0935 840551 ext. 6695.

Ton Class Assn. Many thanks to all whoattended the fifth reunion dinner at Babba-combe, Devon. The next reunion will be inBlackpool on Oct 22-24. Details enclosingsea, from Jack Worth, Amethyst, Lerryn,Lostwithiel, Cornwall PL22 OQF (tel. 0208872452).

HMS Chinkara (1944-46): The 1993"Nostalgia Gathering" will be held at St IvesHotel. St. Anne's near Blackpool on June14-17. Details from Collin (Butch) Baker,Maltkiln Cottage, Blackpool. Old Rd., Lt. Ec-cleston, Preston PR3 OYQ (tel. 099570495).

HMS Kempenfelt (1943-46): A possiblereunion of former shipmates is planned tocommemorate commissioning in 1943. Any-one interested contact John Carroll, 22Carlton Ave, Rose Green, Bognor Regis,West Sussex PO21 3LR (tel. 0243 267303).

Signal Staff, Commodores of Convoys,Western Approaches are holding their an-nual lunch at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool,on May 28. Details from L. F. Matthews, 10Black Pond Lane, Farnham, Surrey.

HMS Penelope: For those who find thejourney to Blackpool for the HMS Penelopeassociation reunion weekend too much forthem these days but would like to mark the49th anniversary of the ship's sinking,special prayers will be said at the morningchurch service in St Ann's Church, Ports-mouth Dockyard on Feb 21 at 1000 hrs. Allare welcome, particularly relatives of those

ails fron0705 649200.who were lost. Details from P. Henley on

Sick Berth Staff: A reunion of ex-sickberth staff will take place in the Kent area towhich all are invited to attend. Details fromDave Humphreys, 22a Newlands, St.Mary's Bay, Romney Marsh, Kent TN29OEY, Taffy Condon, 40 Windsor Dr., Sitting-bourne, Kent ME10 1UN or Don Whybrow,23 Rowan Ave., Gillingham, Kent ME7 3DL.

Captain Class Frigates (1943-46):Members of the Destroyers-Escort SailorsAssn. in America are planning to visit theUK in May and are keen to meet their coun-terparts who served in the 78 British DEs.They will be visiting Belfast, Londonderryand Glasgow from May 2-8; London,Chatham and Bayeux from May 8-10;Portsmouth from May 11-13. Former ship-mates, RNA branches or associations whowould like to visit them should contact Mr.Burton's Historic Tours, PO Box 161. Shot-ley, Nr. Ipswich 1P9 1PF (tel. 0473 787308).

Helicopter Operations (Malaya Emer-gency) Assn.: held a successful reunion atthe Pine Lodge Hotel, Bromsgrove inNovember at which 147 people attended.Next year's reunion will be held at the same

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PatronHer Majesty The Queen

ARNO. the Officers' Charitable and Social fellowship, is open lo all ServingAnd Reined Commissioned Officers of the RN. RM. WRNS. QARNNS andIheir Reserves.

Formed in 1925, ARNO's primary purpose is to assist Members includingHonorary Members (the widows or former members) with grants andbursaries from the proceeds of its assets which exceed £1 million, whereverthere is a need.

Today the financial advantages of membership comfortably exceed theannual subscription (£10 per annum or £150 for Lile) and include: "HousePurchase Generous cash paymenls wilh mortgage and with Life Assurance,and competitive conveyancing costs 'AA Membership saving up to £30 peryear "Legal & Medical Consultations at free or favourable rates "TradeDiscounts of up to 33% in a wide range of services including insurance,travel, medical, jewellery, wines and many more.

A List of Members and a Year Book are issued, and ARNO organises:•Regional Social functions and group holidays *a list of membersworldwide who would like to exchange homes for holidays "Socialintroductions " Mail redirection "Swords and uniform items for sale "anARNO credit card

For membership application form complete the following:

To: Lt. Cdr. I M P Coombes RN. ARNO. 70 Porchester Terrace. LondonW2 3TP. Please send me details and a membership application form

venue on Oct. 30. Details from B. Lloyd, 32Redwood, Burnnam, Bucks. SL1 8JN.

HMS Black Swan Assn. (1939-53): willhold the next reunion in April in Paignton.Devon. Details from John Dunstan. 47 Ab-botsbury Rd., Newton Abbot, Devon TQ122NS (tel. 0626 54294).

HMS Whitesand Bay (1945-48): R Brigh-ton, 57 Welford Rd., Button Coldfield B735DP (tel. 021 354 3977) would like to hearfrom former shipmates, in particular RonLaming, Jesse Hill, POs Derbyshire andCornish, Geo. Dosher, Bradshaw, Parrot,Flynn, Wynne-Jones and Les Vidler. All for-mer shipmates are invited to attend the as-sociation's annual reunion at the UnionJack Club on March 27. Details from R.Brighton (see above) or Gordon Peat (tel.0602 227523).

HM ships Hecla, Hydra, Hecate and Her-ald: Any past or present members of theships' companies wishing to join the newly-formed H Boat Association which will beholding its first AGM and reunion on July 3send an s.a.e. to Mr. J. Erskine, The ElmsGuest House, 48 Victoria Road South,Southsea PO5 2BT (tel. 0705 823924).

HMS Bullen K469: The fifth reunion willtake place at St Edmunds Hotel, Gorleston-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth on April 24. Detailsfrom C. W. Bilverstone. 31 Sands Lane,Oulton Broad, Lowestoft NR32 3ER (tel.0502 561130).

HMS London Assn: (1947-49): The nextreunion will be held in Portsmouth on April17-18. Details from John Parker, 13 Bro-myard Cresent, Portsmouth PO6 3SP (tel.0705 377539).

Yangtze Incident, April 1949: The 45thanniversary reunion will be held in Ports-mouth in April 1994. Veterans from HMships Amethyst, London, Consort andBlack Swan contact your own associationsor John Parker. 13 Bromyard Crescent,Portsmouth PO6 3SP (tel. 0705 377539).

HMS Liverpool Assn.: will hold their tenthreunion in the POs' Mess, HMS Nelson onJune 12. Details from John Waters, 2 Dew-berry Rd., Wordsley, Stourbridge, WestMidlands DY8 5XJ (tel. 0384 71064).

16th MTB Flotilla (India and Trincomalee1943-44): A reunion has been arranged inSalisbury on March 3. Details from KenCraddock-Hartopp, Keepers, YeoviltonBA22 8EX (tel. 0935 840240).

HMS Duke (Malvern) 1941-46: The fourthreunion will be held in Malvern on April 22-25. Details from Philip Brown on 0243551399.

Humber Naval Enthusiasts hold theirmeetings at Hull's Flying Angel Club on thefirst and third Tuesdays at 1930 hrs. Detailsfrom Jim Wilcock on 0482 26738.

TS Dartmouth will hold their 50th reunionon Feb. 6. Details from Jack Login, 20 Wes-ton Lane, Bridgetown, Totnes. S. DevonTQ9 SUN.

HMS Laforey (1941-44): The next reunionwill be held in Northampton on March 27-28. Details from Arthur Jones, 10 NorthClose. Wade Court. Havant PO9 2TE (tel.0705 483331).

HMS Arethusa Assn. held their fourthreunion at the Royal Sailors' Home Club.Portsmouth, on Nov. 14 at which 90members and guests attended. The nextreunion will be held in Stratford-upon-Avpnin Nov. Details from Tom Sawyer, 4 VictoriaRd., Wood Lane, Rothwell. Leeds LS26OAA, West Yorks. (tel. 0532 829531).

Eighth Destroyer Flotilla Assn. will beholding their annual reunion in Portsmouthon Sept. 18. Details, enclosing s.a.e., fromM. H. Corbett, 1 Melbourne Cres., StaffordST16 3JU. The next committee meeting andmini-reunion will be held at the RockinghamHotel, Doncaster on Feb. 13.

North Russia Club, southern reunion, willbe held at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth on May2. Details, enclosing s.a.e., from MervynWilliams, 87 Olive Rd., Coxford, Southamp-ton S01 6FT.

Coastal Forces Veterans Assn. will beholding their annual reunion at the GuntonHall Holiday Village, Lowestoft on April 5-8.A limited number of vacancies for non-members are available. Details from E. E.Cullen, 98 Haward St., Lowestoft NR322DR (tel. 0502 565129).

625 Squad, Royal Marines: A reunioncommemorating the 40th anniversary of theforming of the squad at Deal will be held in1994. Past members and instructors shouldcontact Mark Cline, Avery's Bridge, More-ton Paddox Warks. CV35 9BU (tel. 0926651666).

HMS Spartan Survivors' Assn will holdtheir annual reunion at the Nautical Club,Bishopgate St., Ladywood, Birmingham onJan 30th. Details from Ron Ellis on 021 4232826.

Retired Officers, Supply and SecretariatBranch: There will be a combined cocktailand buffet supper party for retired officersand their guests at RNC Greenwich onMarch 4. Any retired officers who have notreceived an invitation and are interested infinding out more details should contactLieut.-Cdr. Roger Evans, DNMT(S), Room308C, Ministry of Defence, Old AdmiraltyBuilding. Whitehall, London SW1A 2BE (tel.071 218 3275).

FIFTY YEARS ONA LOOK BACK at the wartime operations of the Royal Navy half acentury ago this month.

After a very bad year for shipping losses, 1943 started deceptivelywell. Only 50 ships of 261,000 tons were lost world wide. In the N.Atlantic exceptionally bad weather and evasive routeing based on Ultraintercepts kept the losses down to one ship, but a convoy of eleventankers with only a light escort was cut to pieces south of the Azores andonly two survived.

After much prompting the RAF started bombing the submarine pens inthe Biscay bases and the German building yards. Over 1,000 tons ofbombs were dropped in 800 sorties, but with no significant result — thepens should have been bombed while building for at no time during thewar did a bomb penetrate the concrete of the U-Boat shelters.

In N. Africa Montgomery's army was advancing fast, Tripoli was cap-tured on Jan. 23 and the Tunisian border crossed on 29. By the end ofthe month the busy Inshore Squadron had delivered 157,000 tons ofsupplies to help maintain the impetus.

Principal events included1: German blockade runner Rhakotis, in

bound from the Far East, sighted by RAFSunderland that homed HMS Scylla to inter-cept Rhakotis sunk by gunfire and torpedo140 miles from Biscay coast

2: HMS Alarm badly damaged by air attackon Bone

3: Human torpedoes — "Chariots" —launched from HM submarines Trooper andThunderboll penetrated Palermo harbour,sank the new Italian light cruiser Ulpio Traianoand damaged a large liner.

5: US Task Force including HMNZS Achillesbombarbed Munda and Kolambangara in theSolomons. HMS Achilles damaged in Japa-nese air attack

13: HMCS Ville de Quebec sank U-224 offCape Tenez.

14: HM ships Hurslev. Pakenham and RAF

Beaufort sank Italian submarine SE of Malta16: RAF Fortress sank U-337 in N Atlantic17: HM submarine Undine sank Italian de-

stroyer Bombardiere off Marettimo19: HMCS Port Arthur sank Italian subma

rine off Bougie.20: HMMTB 260 sank Italian submarine off

Tripoli21: HM submarine P212 (later Sahib) sank

U 301 W of Corsica23: Zuara (Libya) bombarded by HM ships

Cleopatra, Euryalus, Javelin, Jervis, Kelvin andNubian

25: HM A/S trawler Corncrake foundered ingale in N. Atlantic

29: HMNZ ships Kiwi and Moa sank Japa-nese submarine off Guadalcanal

30: HMS Samphire sunk by Italian subma-rine off Bougie

Taken from The Royal Navy Day by Day.

HMS Tenby (1969-73): Ex-ROs Jeff (Dai-sy) Mays and John (Paddy) Girvan wouldlike to hear from former shipmates with aview to a reunion. Contact Jeff Mays on0344 59368.

HMS Lightning (1941-43): Ex-AB GeorgeGilroy, 6 Barnaby Terrace, Rochester. KentME1 2LL (tel. 0634 841937) would like tohear fom old shipmates.

HM ships Gossamer, Foresight, Forres-ter and Malayan Class Minesweepers(1941-42): Former shipmates are invited tojoin the HMS Gossamer Association. De-tails from E. J. Morris, 40a Edwards Rd.,Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear (tel. 091 2532540).

HMS Achates (1942): Nobby Clarke(0757 638923) would like to hear from hisold shore-going "oppo" George Charlton.

HMS Lucky Largs (1941-44): Ex-PORadio Mech. Ken James. 28 Groveland Rd.,Speen, Newbury, Berks. RG13 1SS (tel.0635 42772) would like to hear from formershipmates, in particular POs Shaw andNewman.

HMS Salamander, 1st MinesweepingFlotilla: Eddie (Flash) Gordon, 23 DudleyDr.. Dudley. Cramlington, NorthumberlandNE23 7AL (tel. 091 2500978) would like tohear from former shipmates and from thosewho served in the Flotilla and who will beattending the Battle of the Atlantic celebra-tions in Liverpool.

HMS Rodney (937-38): C N. Hawkins. 4Rose Brae, Liverpool L18 6JX (tel. 051 7245639) would like to hear from members ofthe Boys Mess, in particular Whitelam.Palmer, Pook, Lawrence and Hackett.

HM ships Raleigh and Drake (1978),Hecla, Fox and Egeria (1979-81): Ex-AB(SR) Slinger Woods. 7 Wordsworth Rd.,Diss. Norfolk IP22 3QA would like to hearfrom former shipmates.

LC1(S) 535 HMS Tormentor, Warsash(1943-44): W. E. Carey. 21 Brook St., Man-ningtree, Essex CO11 1DL would like tohear from former shipmates.

HMS Verulam (1943-45): Buster Brown,320 Welcombe Ave.. Park North, SwindonSN3 2PE (tel. 0793 521041) would like tohear from PO Stoker Jim Belts, of EastHam, STD George Roberts, of Sundbury.and SEA Dickie Taylor, of London Docks,with view to a 50th anniversary reunion.

HMS Dainty (1956-58): Peter J. Hillman,21 Lincoln Ave., Rose Green, BognorRegis, West Sussex PO21 3EJ (tel. 0243265901) would like to hear from formershipmates with view to a reunion in particu-lar Lieut.-Cdr. Keith Maun and Lieut.Oglesby.

HMS Brissenden L79: Ex-AB Cliff (Lofty)Lawrence, 31 The Limes, Bletchley, MiltonKeynes MK2 2JN would like to hear fromformer shipmates. Contact has alreadybeen made with ten others from the HaifaPatrol days and a reunion is planned forlater in the year.

HM ships Frobisher (1935-37) and Wool-wich (1938-42): Mr. N. Day. 29 Northwell

Place, Swaffham, Norfolk PE37 7HH (tel.0760 24613) would like to hear from formercooks staff.

HMS Lulworth (1941-45), 40th EscortGroup: Former shipmates, particularly fromthe Communications branch, who will beattending the 50th anniversary of the Battleof the Atlantic in Liverpool, contact Fred(Shorty) Wallace on 091 2532679 with viewto holding a reunion.

SOCA Shropshire: The Shropshirebranch invite former submariners to jointheir association. Monthly meetings areheld at the Oddfellows Arms, High St., Well-ington on the last Tuesday in the month at8pm. Further details from Denis Alderman,43 Webb Crescent, Dawley, Telford, Shrop-shire TF4 3DS (tel. 0952 502380).

HMS Rival-3A (Fleet Air Arm Auxiliary)1942-44: L. J. Potter, 507 Wherstead Rd..Ipswich. Suffolk IP2 8LW would like to hearfrom former shipmates.

HMS Comus (1946-47): John Purdy, 4Nore Close, Gillingham. Kent ME7 3DG (tel0634 578669) would like to hear from Sid-ney Cross with whom he served on theChina Station. Last known to be living inFinchley.

HMS St. George and HMS Ganges (1946)and HMS Triumph (1947-49): Ex-Boy TelH. Smith, 17 Maple Ave.. Keelby, LinesDN37 8EN (tel. 0469 60026) would like tohear from former shipmates with view to areunion, in particular Pete Wailes, CPOTels. Pete Shotbolt, Eric Scribbins, Woo-drow, Adams and Morgan.

HMS Achilles (1934-39), RN W/T Station,Kranji, Singapore (1939-42) and HMS An-son (1944-46): Frank Holmes, 35 Wil-loughby St., Murchison, Victoria 3610, Aus-tralia would like to hear from formershipmates.

HMS Kimberley (1941-42): E H Jenkins.45 Islwyn Rd., Wattsville, Gwent NP1 7QH(tel. 0495 271 812) would like to hear fromformer shipmates.

Band Drums, Eastney Barracks (1954-58): T. J. Milner, 9 The Drive, Swinfen, Lich-field, Staffs. WS14 9QT (tel. 0543 480852)would like to hear from former shipmates,in particular Drum Major R. G. Knox andBuglers Bill Tuckwell. Len Edwards, RegWalton. Dot Safe, Froggy French, BuzzerBee, Bobby Fisher, Eric Haybittle, DickyHammond, Paddy Black and Dick Taylor.

Combined Ops., Mediterranean (1942-43): H. F. Porter, 22 Snakes Hill, NavestockSide, Brenrwood, Essex CM 14 5GA wouldlike to hear from former shipmates, in parti-cular Ginger Lowson, Bill (Lofty) Geal,George Armstrong, Bill Hayes, AB Godfrey,Cyril Warren, Bob Dredge, Vic Tessier andLieut. Hughie McKenzie.

HMS Narvik, LST 5th Flotilla, and HMSBen Lomond (1948-49): F J Woods, 22Constable Dr., Gleadless Valley. SheffieldS14 1AU (tel. 0742 393968) would like tohear from former shipmates.

Over to YouKranji, Singapore (1941-45): Andrew

Waterman. Long Meadow, Tydd St. GilesWisbech, Cambs PE13 5LU would like infor-mation about the wireless station at Kranjibefore the Japanese occupation, in particu-lar, how was the swimming pool destroyed,why and when did Nissen huts replace thebungalow and why was so much of thewireless equipment Japanese in origin.

HMS Hoste K566 (1942-45): Tom Brad-bury. 1 Buckingham St., Birkdale, Queens-land, Australia would like to know what flo-tilla, group or squadron the ship wasattached to. Any further information aboutwhat action the ship was involved in wouldalso be appreciated.

HM ships Sheffield, Ramilies, Cleopatra,Jamaica and Garlics: F. J. Rowbottom, 37Wrench St., Cambridge Park, New SouthWales, Australia 2747 invites shipmates andtheir wives, particularly those who served inthe above-mentioned ships, to visit hishome in exchange for the same facility inthe UK.

Trinity House Lightvessels: Peter Wil-liams, Havan Lightship, Milford Marina, Mil-ford Haven, Pembrokeshire SA73 3AF (tel.0646 698055) would like to hear from any-one who was involved in work done by LVsat Nab and Owers stations with the asso-ciated radio station Culver Cliff and the sup-ply base Fort Yaverland. Isle of Wight, orinvolved in other incidents between RNships and LVs anywhere in the world.

Motor Gun Boats: David Birch, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, PO Box 31, DerbyDE24 8BJ would like to hear from anyonewho served on MGBs armed with Rolls-Royce Mk XIV 2-pounder guns. Was thisweapon mounted on any other type ofboat?

HMS Broke 1942: T. Colling. 8 NewboldAve.. Sunderland SR5 1LG would like acopy of either the Picture Post or the Weekly Illustrator which featured an art ist 'simpression of HMS Broke ramming theboom in Algier harbour.

HMS Alacrity, Korea, 1950: Anthony Bar-one. 544 NE 24th Street, Wilton Manors FL33305, USA is trying to trace members ofthe ship's company, who resuced US air-craft personnel when their B-29 was shotdown on July 12 1950, in particular theship's c.o. Cdr. H. S. Barber, Lieut. AnthonyCook and REM Newton. On Nov. 12 1992 adedication ceremony took place at WiltonManors Veterans' Memorial Park and anengraved memorial to the rescue of theseven US airmen by HMS Alacrity wasinstalled.

HMS Aurora: C. H. Wilkins, 63 Mill FarmCres., Hounslow, Middx. TW14 5PJ.

HMS Prodigal: G. J. Packer, 61 Birch-grove Rd., Swansea SA7 9JR would like tohear from anyone who has photographs ofthe ship which he could borrow in order tomake copies.

Radio Call: A group of US veterans whowere involved in wireless telegraphy in theSecond World War are trying to assemble achronical of personal experiences from thattime, particularly of the period before theUS entered the war. They would like to hearfrom anyone in the UK involved in this kindof work who have intersting reminiscences.Contact Jan Faulkner, 6 Courtland Ave.,London SW16 3BB.

Signal Branch: A Dalby. The VictoryCorps of Guides. HMS Victory, HM Navalbase, Portsmouth PO1 3HH would like toknow when the Signal Branch was formed.

Wartime Atlanticconvoy recalled

FLAG Officer Plymouth Vice-Admiral Sir Roy Newman ispictured visiting the WesternApproaches project in com-pany with Capt. Harry Muck-low, Naval Regional Officer,Midlands and North Wales.

The project is nothing lessthan the recreation of theWestern Approaches AreaCommand Headquarters,Derby House, Liverpool, as itwas during the Battle of theAtlantic.

Admiral Newman saw thenewly-installed Atlanticcharts (supplied by RN Hy-drographic Branch), walkedthe tourist route and viewedthe 11 -minute film, which willgive project visitors a tasteof Allied naval operationsduring the Second WorldWar.

NAVY NEWS. JANUARY 1993

Royal Naval Association

Pommiessay g'day!JUBILATION "down under" as HMS Boxer, on the final leg ofOrient '92, drops anchor in the Port of Fremantle, In WesternAustralia. As the sailors of the Boxer "cheer ship", they arewelcomed by members of the Perth branch of the RNA seenhero, proudly displaying their standard. During the ship's five-day visit, 3,700 visitors made a tour of the Boxer.

_ Picture: PO Phot Fez Parker.

Founder membercrosses the bar

PRESIDENT of the Walton-on-Naze branch, Mrs Bea Browne, ofFrinton, has died aged 95.

Mrs Browne joined the Wrens during the First World War at theage of 17 and re-enlisted in 1938 when she served for a further eightyears, attaining the rate of Chief Officer. She was awarded the BEMin 1945 and was founder member of the Walton-on-Naze branchand vice-president of the National Association of Wrens.

Her wit and charm could captivate an audience when she recalledher many adventures and she was held in high esteem by membersof her branch.

Cheshunt get theirmarching orders

SHIPMATE Elphick, secretary Cheshunt branch, believes that old legs move fasterand backs are straighter when marching to music by a Royal Marines band.

At least that was his imprcs-iion at the parade and marchpast following the dedication oft h e C h e s h u n t s t a n d a r d i nChrist Church, which was verywell supported. Those presentincluded Capt. Paddy Vincent,president No. I Area, who,with his wife, was also guest ofhonour at the third annual din-ner of the branch, a happy oc-casion, enjoyed by 126 ship-mates and wives.

During the evening a £200cheque was presented to Capt.

Vincent who is the director ofthe Great Ormond Street Wish-ing Well appeal. For ShipmatePaul Cawlcy the occasion wasespecially memorable as he wasnamed "Shipmate of the Year"by the branch chairman. RonJoy.

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If Blackpool and Fyldebranch has its way there willsoon be replacements for thoseshipmates who crossed the barin the past year. Potential re-cruits have a lot to gain in join-ing the branch, especially ifthey enjoy a good social life.Members meet on the f i rs tWednesday, at 7.30 pm inStretton Hotel. 300 yards northof North Pier. Recent socialevents included enjoyable visitsto L i v e r p o o l and Ley landbranches and a d inne r andsocial on home ground, attend-ed by the Mayor and Mayoress.

ry Beckley, of the South Afri-can Navy. The next visitor tothe UK from the branch will beits president, Shipmate Bi l lKeeble, who hopes to arrivehere in April in time to receivethe MBE award.

A successful concert by theband of the Royal Marines, or-ganised by Dartford branch,was attended by the generalsecretary, Capt. Jim Rayncr.the branch president, Capt. TedWhealing and the Mayor ofDartford. Proceeds of the con-cert will aid the Central Chari-ties Fund and the RNBT. Dur-ing the evening a plaque waspresented to Mr. Eric Lavenderwho is retiring as the adminis-trator of Pembroke House.

The president and social sec-retary of Sidcup, Shipmate SidWaller and his wife, Glynis, or-ganised an enjoyable dinner-dance to mark the 40th birth-day of the branch. During thecelebration, attended by thegeneral secretary Capt. JimRayner and his wife. Trish, pre-sentations were made to Ship-mates Ted Cook, Ron Boon,Don Lait and Stan Wright whohave all served the branch asstandard bearers.

ing us get established."O D D

Members of Ketton and Dis-trict, after a year's hard fund-raising, realised £500 whichwas donated to the followinglocal and naval charities: Stam-ford Hospital, Cancer ReliefM a c m i l l a n Fund . StamfordM e n t a l l y Hand icapped , t heRNBT and the WRNS Benevo-lent Trust. Members meet onthe first Tuesday at the RAFAclub and extend a warm wel-come to new recruits.

In BriefA re-commissioning meeting

of Horsham branch will be heldat RAFA Club. Three Acres.H o r s h a m . West Sussex, onWeds. J an . 27 at 2000hrs .Further details from J. Dale on0903 262129.

Members of Redruth andCamborne attended the grandopening of the refurbishedRoyal British Legion loungeand to mark the occasion andthe fr iendship exist ingbetween the RBL and theRNA, they presented a ship'sbell for the bar. A framed pic-ture of HMS Norfolk was alsopresented by Shipmate RexGay.

The B r i d l i n g t o n s tandardwas paraded at the Festival otRemembrance at the Spa RoyalHall . Bridl ington.

City of Ely entertained theMayor and Mayoress and thechairman of the District Coun-cil and his wife at the branchTrafalgar Day ball which wasa great success.

Sponsorship of Lieut.-Cdrs.Simpspn and Sal isbury andSub. Lieut. Martin, who joinedthe British Makalu expeditionto the Himalayas, helped raise-funds for the K.GFS, RNBTand the RNA Central CharitiesFund.

Over 80 shipmates attendedCwmbran Trafalgar night din-ner-dance at which the guestof honour was ex-submariner,John Huntley, chairman ofGwent County Council.

On a social visit to Port Stan-l e y i n t h e F a l k l a n d s . t w omembers of Naval Party 2010.LS Cook and LWEM Knowles.presented a bell rope and bellwhich they made themselves.

The 10th birthday of Wokingwill be celebrated on March20 with a dinner-dance. Plansare also afoot to mark StGeorge's Day with a paradeon April 25. Those who plan toattend contact Shipmate R.Fraser on 0932-349928.

M e m b e r s of N i d d e r d a l e .Ripon and Skipton attended as e r v i c e i n S t . M a r g a r e t ' sChurch, Hawcs to mark the50th anniversary of the com-missioning of HMS Wensley-dale.

The first ever Trafalgar nightdinner organised by Dhahranbranch was attended by 36members and their wives, withCdr. Grenville Johnson as theguest of honour. Shipmates alsocelebrated in the RNA clubthough they were unable totoast the "immortal memory",in Nelson's Blood.

In the presence of 300 ship-mates and guests, the Looebranch standard was dedicatedin the covered Fish Market. Abugler from the Royal MarinesBand, HMS Raleigh, soundedThe Last Post and Reville andthe march past of 18 standardswas led by the band of theRoyal British Legion, Plym-outh. After the parade ship-mates and guests enjoyed a re-ception and "Up Spirits" in thesocial club at West Looe and inthe evening a dedication ball,held at Killigarth Manor, was agreat success. The branch thankall shipmates and friends whosupported the two occasions.

Fifty years span the dedica-tion of the two standards of theCarlisle b r a n c h , w h i c h re-formed in March last year. At aservice in the cathedral the oldstandard, carried by ShipmateNorman Richardson, was laidup and the new dedicated. Ca-dets from TS Cumberland pro-vided the guard of honour. Theservice was attended by Ship-mate Tom Gallagher, nationalcouncil member No 10 Areaand by members of Whiteha-ven branch. Following the ser-vice, the new standard was par-ade by S h i p m a t e R o w l a n dFleming.

"WELL done" to Plymouth branch in recruiting Wren DeborahBeeson on her 18th birthday, seen here signing on, flanked byShipmate Bob Wall, left, the branch chairman and by herfather, Shipmate Carl Beeson, the vice chairman. Deborah,who joined HMS Raleigh last year as a WRO, seems to befollowing in her father's footsteps for he also trained as anLRO(T). She is one of three members of the Plymouth branchunder the age of 25 years.

The Johannesburg branchscored a first when, in conjunc-tion with members of the localSea Cadet Corps, the branchheld Divisions at TS Immor-telle. The service, attended by50 shipmates and their wives,was conducted by the Rev. Bar-

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Notice BoardPromotions to Chief

AUTHORITY for promotion of the followingratings to chief petty officer was issued byHMS Centurion in December:

OPERATIONS BRANCH(SEAMAN GROUP)

To CPO(OPS)(M) — S. P. Haylor (Dryad).D. H. Edwards (Avenger), P. A. Shores(Glasgow).

To CPO(OPS)(MW)(O) — D R Hawkins(SMOPS Nelson).

MARINE ENGINEERINGTo CMEM(M) — J. F. Newlyn (Ports-

mouth FMRO). P. A. Jackson (Sultan AIB)S. J. Parry (Sultan), D. Newell (FOSF EngRosyth), K. A. Graves (Defiance FMB), P. E.Whittingham (Neptune).

SUPPLY AND SECRETARIATTo CROCK — D. C. Bullock (Active).

SUBMARINE SERVICETo CPO(OPS)(TS)(SM) — J. L. McCord

(Neptune NT).To CRS(SM) — J. A. Hamilton (Vanguard

Port).To CPOSA(SM) — R Hardy (Defiance

FMB).

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER ARTIFICERHMS Centurion has been notified of the

following promotions to chief petty officerartificer which were made by commandingofficers in November:

CPOCT(A): A. R. Boyle (Brave).ACPOCT(A): P. W. Box (RNU RAF

Edzell).

ACPOCT(L): M. G. Berry (MOD CNSOSCU). J. T. Cook (RNU RAF Edzell).

CPOMEA — V. C. Burden (Manchester),R. McMeikan (Repulse Port), G. M. Rivers(Superb), S. G. Scorer (Renown Port).

ACPOMEA — P. Hodkinson (Chatham),S. H. Marshall (Defiance FMB), R. S. Hamil-ton (POST FMG), T. P. Nicholls (Manches-ter), K. N. Payne (CNH CTNH Sultan), G. J.Thomas (Triumph), A. Wilkinson (Sover-eign), N. L. Wilshire (Fearless).

CPOAEA(WL) — T. Edgerton (Seahawk).J. P. Lucas (899 Sqn. Heron).

CPOAEA(M) — A. C. Adams (RNAS Port-land), D. Harrop (RNAS Yeovilton), S. M.Jackson (RNAS Portland), K. W. Raeburn(RNAS Yeovilton), A. P. Roberts (702 Sqn.Osprey).

ACPOAEA(M) — S. J. Wooding (Osprey),C. Harper (RNAS Culdrose).

CPOWEA — P. Attrell (Collingwood), R. J.Bond (Boxer), J. E. Bridgeman (Manches-ter), D. P. Griffiths (Glasgow). I. W. Kiff(Southampton), A. Mills (Lancaster), A. W.Stephens (Ark Royal). S. Turl (Manchester).

ACPOWEA — S. J. Brennan (RevengePort), D. A. Chambers (Renown Stbd), P. D.Farrell (Collingwood), P. J. King (Colling-wood). R. Williamson (Defiance FMB).

ACTING CHARGE CHIEF ARTIFICERAuthority was issued by HMS Centurion

in December for the following ratings to bepromoted to acting charge chief artificer:

To ACCMEA — M. P. Avers (Defiance), R.P. Daglish (Jersey), J. B. Bullock (Defiance),I. F. Curryer (Brave), R. V. Jones (Invinci-ble). A. G. Hall (Neptune).

To ACCWEA — W. L. Mitchelmore (Defi-ance), P. E. Dyer (Tireless), L. J. Hansen(Neptune).

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Appointments

SECOND SEALORD NAMED

VICE-Admiral Michael Layard is to be Chief of Naval Per-sonnel, Second Sea Lord and Admiral President, RoyalNaval College Greenwich, in succession to Admiral SirMichael Livesay from April 27. The appointment carrieswith it membership of the Admiralty Board of the DefenceCouncil.

Vice-Admiral Layard joined the Royal Navy in 1954, and has served in avariety of ships ranging from minesweepers to aircraft carriers. Hebecame a fighter pilot, then an air warfare instructor, and commandedthe last Sea Vixen Squadron, 899, in HMS Eagle. Later appointmentsincluded command of HMS Lincoln and Commander (Air) in the formerHMS Ark Royal on her last commission.

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During the Falklands conflict hewas given the task of turning theAtlantic Conveyor into an aircraftcarrier and he deployed south withher as the senior naval officer,being awarded the CBE in theFalklands Honours List.

Subsequent appointments haveincluded command of RN air sta-tion Culdrose and of HMS Cardiff.On promotion to rear-admiral in1988 he became Flag Officer Na-val Air Command, the title chang-ing to Flag Officer Naval Aviationon reorganisation in March 1990.

He was appointed Director Gen-eral Naval Manpower and Trainingin December 1990, and promotedvice-admiral in April 1992, becom-ing Leader of the Officer's StudyGroup set up to carry out a majorreview of the structure and man-agement of the RN and RM OfficerCorps.

Promoted vice-admiral lastmonth was Rear-Admiral R.T.Frere, who is Flag O f f i c e rSubmarines.

Rear-Admiral J.R. Shiffner, Chiefof Staff to CINCNAVHOME, is tobe Director General Fleet Support(Equipment and Systems) fromJune.

Other appointments recently announcedinclude:

Capt. J.R. Hance. Exeter in command.May 11.

Cdr. A.M. Massey. Newcastle in com-mand. April 6.

Cdr. K.J. Parris. Brave in command. April20.

SD ListTHE following candidates were selected forpromotion to Sub-Lieutenant (SD)(E) (ME),to date June 14 1993, following the June1992 professional qualifying examination:

CCMEA(ML) S. P. EaglestoneCCMEA(EL) G. Harvey. CCMEA(ML) P. Hut-chinson and CPOMEA(EL) R. V. Jones.

Vice-Admiral MichaelLayard.

Cdr. D.R. Teer. Marlborough in com-mand. April 22.

Cdr. I. Moncrieff. Nottingham in com-mand. April 27.

Cdr. C.H.T. Clayton. Beaver in command.Jan. 19.

Cdr. P.N. Hibbert. Splendid in command.June 1.

Cdr. J.W. Arrow. Montrose in commandApril 20.

Cdr. P.B. Mathias. Trenchant in com-mand. May 18.

Lieut-Car. M.C. Sillars. Dumbarton Cas-tle in command. March 29.

THE Rev. M.W. Bucks, at pres-ent based at HMS Warrior, is to beappointed Chaplain of the Fleetand DGNCS in succession to theVen. Archdeacon M.H.G. Henleyon Feb. 26.

HonoursTHE following awards to members of theRoyal Marines have been announced in rec-ognition of distinguished service in North-ern Ireland:

MBE: Maj. J. G. RoseMentioned in Despatches: WO2 D A

Barton. Sgt B. E. Jarvis, Capt. W. J. Taylorand A/CLR Sgt B. K. White.

DeathsP. D. Barton. Capt. MOD HYDROG/

DNOM. Nov. 17.P. D. Whitehead. Lieut. HMS Glasgow.

Nov. 18.K. Mackay. POAEA. 819 Squadron. Nov.

18.S. Jones. AB(S)(SM). Neptune SMS. Nov

23.J. G. Doggart. Lieut.-Cdr. Defiance FMG.

Nov. 25.R. Evans. AWEM(R)1. HMS Turbulent.

Nov. 29 (Missing presumed drowned).

D. H. F. Hetherington, CB, DSC and twoBars. Rear-Admiral (retd). Destroyer officer,serving at sea for all but six months ofSecond World War. Served 1925-1961,ships including HMS Kimberley (first lieu-tenant) and command of HMS Windsor,Lookout, Cheviot and Agincourt. Later FlagOfficer Malta. Also awarded Croix deGuerre and twice Mentioned in Despatches.Aged 81.

J. E. Poulden, CBE. Lieut.-Cdr. (retd).Served as signal officer in HMS Prince ofWales and Duke of York in Second WorldWar. Other ships included HMS Suffolk,Dainty, Tartar, Galatea, Eagle and Anson.Twice Mentioned in Despatches. LaterTechnical Director GCHQ. Aged 77.

A. James. Sub-Lieut, (retd). Served 1946-69, including HMS Bulwark, Hermes andChichester. Aged 62.

F. S. Wells. Ex-AB. Survivor HMS Eagle.W. H. Warburton. Asdic operator HMS

Stonecrop 1941-42; anti-submarine officerHMS Geranium 1943-46. Aged 80.

H. G. Hall. Lieut, (retd). Served 1918-47,including HMS New Zealand, Eagle. Maid-stone, Rodney, Vivid, and Bideford,HMNZS Philomel and HMAS Canberra.Aged 91.

B. Blease. Lieut.-Cdr., RNVR (retd). Aged80.

R. E. Davey. Ex-Sea Cadet and memberof Bounty Boys Scheme. Service includedHMS Skipjack and Lagos 1944-47.

A. S. Chiles. Wartime service in HMSSwiftsure.

M. C. Smith. Ex-AB(FC2). Served 1953-65. including HMS Indefatigable. VeryanBay, Girdleness, Opossom, Mounts Bay,Saintes and Urchin. Member DevonportField Gun Crew. Aged 55.

W. Knapton. Ex-CERA. Ships includedHMS Ajax 1937-43 and member HMS Ajaxand River Plate Veterans Assn. At Regina.Canada, aged 84.

John Haslam. Former Chief Public Rela-tions Officer. CINCFLEET, and of RAFStrike Command; also served in MOD.

ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATIONThe deaths are reported of the following

shipmates:

W. Gabriel, DSM, No. 12 Area. Ex-CPO.Ships included HMS Eagle and Illustrious.Member Old illustrians Assn. At Bandon,Co. Cork, aged 83.

J. Davies (ex-PO) and A. Long, both Ful-ham and Chelsea.

B. Wor t l ey and B. Bosbery , bothChristchurch.

E. Long, Bridport. Aged 70.K. Leggatt, DSM. Standard bearer

Scunthprpe for 14 years.H. Trim, Taunton. Member Old Illustrians

Assn. Aged 71.W. A. Davies, former secretary Llandud-

no. Ex-POSBA.K. Stephens, chairman and social secre-

tary, Newton Abbot.

THE following list shows the total points ofthe men and women at the top of eachadvancement roster for petty officer andleading rates as at January 1, 1993.

Intermediates (Int) indicates that person-nel can be advanced before they are eligibleto receive merit points or before the rostercan 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 topeligible personnel.

The number following the points (or basicdates) is the number of men who were ad-vanced during December.

CCMEAML — Int (22 10.91), 2; CCMEAEL— Dry, 3; CCMEAMLSM — Dry, 1;CCMEAELSM — Int (27.3.92), Nil;CCWEAADC — Int (28.7.92), Nil;CCWEAWDO — Int (3.4.92), Nil;CCWEAADCSM — Dry, 3; CCWEAWDOSM— Int (13.11.92). Nil; CCAEAM — Int(1.1.92), Nil; CCAEAR — Int (1.1.91). Nil;CCAEAWL — Int (1.1.90), Nil.

PO(EW)/RS(W) — Int (7.6.91), Nil;LS(EW)/LRO(W) — Int (9.6.92), Nil; PO(M)— Int (6.12.91), 4; LS(M)~ Int (6.12.91), Nil;PO(R)—190, Nil; LS(R) —Int (12.5.92), Nil;PO(S) — Int, (13.10.92), 4; LS(S) — Int(15.3.91), Nil; PO(D) — 156, Nil; LS(D) -^369, Nil; PO(MW) — Int (12.5.92), 1; LS(MW)— Int (7.6.91), 2; PO(SR) — 244, Nil; LS(SR)— 133, Nil; PO(SEA) — 201, Nil; CY — 279,Nil; LRCfT) — 144, Nil; RS — 154, Nil;LRO(G) — Int (24.9.91), Nil; POPT — 270,Nil; RPO — 193. 5.

POMEM(L)(GS) — Int (30.891), 4;LMEM(L)(GS) — Int (27.3.92), Nil; PO-MEM(M)(GS) — 415, Nil; LMEM(M)(GS) —148, Nil; POWEM(O)(GS) — Int (3.7.90), Nil;LWEM(0)(GS) — Int (19.6.91), 3;POWEM(R)(GS) — Int (3.9.91), 6;LWEM(R)(GS) — Int (17.9.92). 3; POCA —Int (5.7.90), Nil; POCK(GS) — 370, Nil;LCK(GS) — Int (10.12.90). Nil; POSTD(GS)— 622, 2; LSTD(GS) — Int (16.10.90), 5;POSA(GS) — 570, 3; LSA(GS) — Int(18.10.90), 2; POWTR(GS) — Int (22.10.90).5, LWTR(GS) — Int (9.3.92), 8; POMA — Int,(11.9.90). 2; LMA — Dry, Nil.

PO(S)(SM) — Int (19.8.91), Nil; LS(S)(SM)— 231, 1; PO(TS)(SM) — Int (28.2.91). 1;LS(TS)(SM) — Int (6.6.91), Nil; RS(SM) -230, Nil; LRO(SM) — Int (5.6.90). 3; PO-MEM(L)(SM) — 475, 1; LMEM(L)(SM) — Int(6.9.90) 2: POMEM(MKSM) —739. Nil;

LMEM(M)(SM) - 666. Nil; POWEM(O)(SM)— 358, Nil; LWEM(OHSM) — Int (6.6.90),Nil; POWEM(R)(SM) — Int (1.9.92), 1;LWEM(RXSM) — 101, Nil; PO(UW)(SM) —Dry, Nil; POSA(SM) — Int (28.11.90), Nil;LSA(SM) — Int, (18.692), Nil; POWTR(SM)— Int (9.9.90), 1; LWTR(SM) — Int (12.2.92).Nil; POCK(SM) — Int (17.10.91), Nil;LCK(SM) — 673, Nil; POSTD(SM) — 306,Nil; LSTD(SM) — 560, Nil.

POA(AH) — 676, Nil, LA(AH) — 597, Nil;POA(METOC) — Int (17.7.92), Nil; LA(METOC) — Int 1; POA(PHOT) — 209, Nil;POA(SE) — 272, Nil; LA(SE) — 131, Nil;POACMN — 462. 1; POAEM(M) — 215, Nil;LAEM(M) — 251, Nil; POAEM(R) — Int(7 .3 .91) , Nil; LAEM(R) — 274, Nil;POAEM(WL) — 358, Nil; LAEM(WL) — 540,Nil; POAC — Dry, 1.

POWREN(R) — 105, 2; LWREN(R) — Int(5.11.90), 2; POWREN(RS) — 208, Nil;LWREN(RO) — 142, Nil; POWRENPT —113, Nil; RPOWREN — 150. Nil; POW-HENCK — Int, Nil; LWRENCK — Int, Nil;POWRENSTD — 630, Nil; LWRENSTO —Int (19.2.91), Nil; POWRENSA — 277, Nil;LWRENSA — Int (21.2.91) , 2; POW-RENWTR — 163, Nil; LWRENWTR — Int(17.10.91). Nil; POWRENWTR(G) — 130.Nil; LWRENWTR(G) — Int, Nil; POWRENMETOC — Int, 1; LWRENMETOC — Int, 3;POWRENPHOT — Int (5.6.90). Nil.

POWRENAEM(M) — 209. Nil; LWRENAEM(M) — 243, Nil; POWRENAEM(R) — Int(7.11.91), Nil; LWRENAEM(R) — 193, Nil;POWRENAEM(WL) — 262, Nil; LWRENAEM(WL) — 263. Nil; POWRENETS — 187,Nil; LWRENETS — Int (13.9.90), Nil;LWRENTEL — 372, Nil; POWRENWA — Int(161.91). Nil- LWRENWA — Int (9.10.90)Nil; POWRENDHYG — Int (5.7.90), Nil;POWRENDSA — Int. Nil; LWRENDSA — 82,1; POEN(G) — Int, (10.9.91). Nil; LEN(G) —,Dry, Nil; PONN — Int (10.9.91), Nil; PO-MA(O) — Int (12.3.91), Nil; LMA(Q) — Int(10.9.91). Nil.

The Basic Dates quoted for the WRNSratings in the following categories, whichhave no examination tor the next higherrate, are applied in accordance withBR1066 Chapter 22:POWREN QA — 190, Nil; POWREN MT —782, Nil; POWREN TEL — 1102, Nil.

It should be noted that the Nov 1992award of C281 merit points and recommen-dations are not applied to the rosters untilFeb 1, 1993.

Swop DraftsWREN(H)1 Wright, HMS Dryad ext. 4294,

drafted HMS Heron in March. Will considerany Scottish draft.

LS(R) Roberts, SSG, RN air station Cul-rose ext. 2235. Will swop for any Plymouthshore base.

R01(T) Barfield, COMMCEN Whitehall. Awatch, ext. 3862, drafted HMS Cottesmorein May. Will swop for any Devonport frigate.

ALS(M) Pollard, HMS Kent, Whale Island.Will swop for any Plymouth shore base.

WRENWTR Fraser, SOSM(R) Rosyth ext.63555. Will swop for any Portsmouth shorebase.

LS(D) Turner, Faslane Diving Team. Willswop for Diving School or PortsmouthTeam.

SA Bradshaw, HMS Iron Duke. Will swopfor any Portsmouth-based ship, deployingor not.

LSA Cooke, HMS Iron Duke. Will swopfor any southern-based ship deploying.

POAEA(WL) Hateley, 899 Sqn. RN airstation Yeovilton, drafted 815 Sqn., Port-land. Will swop for any Yeovilton draft.

LSA Lewry, HMS Illustrious, ext 53600.Will swop for any Portsmouth-based ship.

LAEM(WL) Wilby, HMS Daedalus, ext.4244, drafted RN air station Culdrose. Willswop for any Portland/Yeovilton draft.

LSA Pye, RAF St Athan ext. 3223, draftedHMS Manchester in April. Will swop for anyship deploying.

CK Jackson, Wardroom Galley, HMSOsprey, ext. 3441, drafted HMS Illustriousin May. Will swop for any Portsmouth-based ship deploying.

LAEM(M) Whitehurst, HMS Gannet, ext.301, drafted 819 Sqn. Will swop for any RNair station Culdrose-based frontline sqn.(not 826).

LS(R) Naylor, HMS Sultan, ext. 2346,drafted HMS Montrose in June. Will swoplor ADAWS-fitted ship in Portsmouth, pref-erably not deploying.

WSA Studd, North Corner Group, ext.25009. Will swop for HMS Defiance or anyother Plymouth-area shore base.

WTR Strickland, HMS Centurion, ext.2460. Will swop for any Portsmouth-basedship.

LWWTR Dick, Tech. Office, HMS Man-chester. Plymouth ext 53040/53030. Willconsider any Plymouth/Portsmouth-basedship.

Pen FriendsREADERS seeking penfriends in the RoyalNavy are listed below. Any sailor who writesto an applicant must use a stamped enve-lope bearing the applicants name andtown. The letter should be enclosed in asecond envelope addressed to Pen Pals' .Navy News. HMS Nelson. Portsmouth. Onreceipt the replies will be redirected but onlyif they have been stamped.

Michelle (17), Plymouth. Beverley (32).London. Naomi (17), Lancing. Sussex.Heather (41), Warley, W. Midlands. Melanie(23). Plymouth. Lisa (25). Newcastle-on-Tyne. Nicky (29), Trowbridge, Wilts. Cather-ine (21). Jarrow, Tyne & Wear. Elizabeth(32). Rotherham, Yorks. Liz (23), Fareham,Hants.

Sarah (22), Plymouth. Louise (17), Brad-ford, Yorks. Nicola (19), Leicester. Emma(17), Leyton, London. Sarah (22), Aberga-venny, Gwent. Angie (24). Ivybridge. Devon.Kathy (44), Leeds, Yorks. Polly (41). Ports-mouth. Zoe (20). Oldbury, W. Midlands.Julie (35), Plymouth. Claire (19). Basing-stoke. Hants.

Sharon (28), Keighley, Yorks. Kath (27),Swansea, Glam. Jane (24), Middlesbrough,Cleveland. Michele (25). Plymouth. Lisa(23). Cardiff. Debbie (28), Manchester.Paula (19), Gosport, Hants. Agnes (45).

Officer PromotionsPROVISIONAL half-yearly selections forpromotion from June 30, 1993, are asfollows.

The early promotions to Lieutenant-Com-mander are effective on the dates shown.

SEAMAN: To captain — W. K. Benbow.J. H. Morgan, N. R. Owen, J. B. Harvey, P.W. H. Swan, D. A. Phillips, D. A. Lewis, C.R. Style.

To commander — M. J. Dale, W. G.Andrew, A. K. Grant, R. W. Bell-Davies, M.M. D. Mason, W. J. Chambers, S. W.Upright, M. C. P. Snow, P. W. Holihead, K.D. J Slowe, T. P. D. Hennessey, M. D. Tarr,S. T. Williams, K. Harvey, C. A. Snow, I. W.Greenlees, B. N. B. Williams, S. M. Gilles-pie, S. J. F. Bateman.

To lieutenant-commander — promoted12 months early: S. J. N. Kings (effective1.1.93). J. A. Morse (1.1.93), T. P. Fraser(1.4.93). Promoted six months early — J. N.G. King (1.7.93), C. I. Moore (1.10.93), S. B.Howell (1.11.93).

ENGINEERING: To captain: S. A. Locke.J. V. Wright. P. R. Davies, T. W. Hare, R. F.Cheadle.

To commander — G. Parsons, N. R. Feb-brarro. R. J. Lineker, R. D. Bateman, T. J.Roberts, T. J. Guy. A. L. McFarlane. J. D.Stratton. P. R. Bishop, G. N. Wright, P. T.Norton, R. W. Mason. P. W. S. Cox, T. M.Dannatt, D. C. Langbridge. C. J. Hockley.

To lieutenant-commander — promoted12 months early: A. N. Parkins (1.2.93), T.C. Hodgson (1 .4.93). Promoted six monthsearly: f. J. Gulley (1.8.93), R. G. Hooley(1.10.93).

SUPPLY AND SECRETARIAT: To cap-tain: J. B. A. Musters, P. M. Reynolds.

To commander: R. E. Williams, R. D.Coupe, M. C. Cowdrey, R. Albon.

To lieutenant-commander — promotedsix months early — J. F. Litchfield (16.7.93),C. M. Skidmore (1.12.93).

INSTRUCTOR: To captain — R. W.Ditchfield.

To commander — C G. D. Taylor, W. M.Sutherland. S. W. Haines.

MEDICAL: To surgeon captain: — M. A.Farquharson-Roberts, J. R. C. Carne.

To surgeon commander — S. D. Evans,P. A. Glew, P. H. Hardy, M. R. Dean H JCox.

DENTAL: To surgeon captain (D) — J VHolland.

ROYAL MARINES: To Colonel — C G. H.Dunlop.

To lieutenant-colonel — I. R. Gardiner, A.R. Pillar. R. A. Fry.

r — J. P. Crobing, S. G. L. P. Buzza, W. A. Canning, W.

To major — J. P. Crosby, J. B. McCub-, . G. L. P. Bu, . .

R. Maclennan, G. S. Robison.

Greenock, Scotland. Wendy (19). Urmston,Manchester. Denise (22), Weymouth.Dorset.

Tracey (28), Portslade, Sussex. Doreen(49), Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham. Jane(17). Portslade. Sussex. Sheena (43). Pais-ley, Scotland. Christina (31), Greenock,Scotland. Denise (21). Halstead. Essex.Margaret (34), Peterborough Clare (20).Hereford. Andrea (23). Torry, Aberdeen.Tracey (26), Fareham, Hants.

Margaret (30). Greenock. Scotland.Angela (31), Peterborough. Sarah (17),Watford. Herts. Tracey (18), Bradford.Yorks. Julie (25). Kingham. Oxon. Angela(31). Barry, Glam. Emma (19). Sheffield.Yorks. Kirsty (22). Basingstoke, Hants. Ja-nice (32), Stevenage, Herts. Fiona (46),Camborne. Cornwall.

Helen (23), Dukinfield, Cheshire. Sam(29), Grimsby, Humberside. Clare (19). Gil-lingham, Kent. Helen (19). Rainham, Kent.Jan (33), Waterlooville, Hants. Sue (33), Liv-erpool. Jane (27). Norwich, Norfolk.Michele (26), Bracknell. Berks. Sharon (30).Tooting. London. Sue (29). Exeter, Devon.

Jacqui (25). Lee, London. Michelle (24),Croydon, Surrey. Gemma (20), Mansfield.Notts. Catherine (16), March. Cambs. Julie(28), Adlington, Lanes. Deborah (34), Blunti-sham. Cambs. Margaret (20), Clapham,London. Nicola (17), Bury, Lanes.

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GOSPORTSeafarer Guest House

9 Bury Road, Gosport

Tel: 0705 522883if Families rooms/En-suite availableif Colour TV all roomsir Tea and coffee facilities all roomsif Close to Sultan, Dolphin and

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DISNEY, FLORIDA. Luxury villassleeping 8/10 with private pools forrent. Nearest location for Disney. Pri-vately owned, save money on bro-chure prices. Discount Jan/Feb,phone 0895-238739 for details.

AUSTIN HOTEL3 CLARENCE PARADE

SOUTHSEALicensed

Welcomes the Royal NavyAll rooms bright and modern

Colour TV in all rooms, centralheating, seafront position. No

restrictionsDiscount allowed for Serving

Personnel

Telephone Portsmouth 821785

INVERKEITHINGBoreland Lodge Private Hotel31-33 Boreland Rd. Inverkeithing1'/>m R o s y t h Dockyard E n - s u i t eaccommodation in 28 comfortable andmodern bedrooms all with Satellite TV

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PERSONNEL * FAMILIESFrom C14.95 B+B per person

* Seafront position* 53 bedrooms, ensuites available•*• Colour TV. tea & coffee facilities.

telephone* Bar/Carvery Restaurantir Games rooms — lull size snooker table

ROSYTHROYAL SAILORS' RESTS

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For Service Personnel and

their Families

Family Kit-Suites withDouble/Twin beds, H&C, Colour

TV in all rooms. Car park

Tel: 0383 413770

FALMOUTHCORNWALL

Telephone: 0326 312077COTSWOLD HOUSE HOTEL

MELVILL ROADLicensed Hotel (AA and RAC Listed)

Close to harbour, beaches, town andrailway station. Open all year. Allrooms en-suite, with TV and tea/coffeemaking facilities. Own car park. Ideal

touring centrePAMELA AND GRAHAM CAIN

UOSPORT "CHERRY TREES" 15Linden Grove, Alversloke. Familyrun guest house, ETB registered. Eng-lish breakfast, h/c, tea-making. TV allrooms, children welcome, close ferry.HMS Sultan and Dolphin. Rates f I Iper night. Contact Lin or Steve Gell•0705 521543.

Hampshire Court Hotel30 Hampshire Terrace — Portsmouth P01 2PF

Close to H M. Dockyard and Barracks, Portsmouth railway and bus stations.WP!| appointed rooms with double glazing, full central heating, h&chandbasms. electric tires, fitted carpets, modern divan beds. Colourtelevision lounge, own keys, car park. No restrictions. Full English breakfast

Single rooms with breakfast from £14Double rooms with breakfast from £25Double with private shower £26

Telephone Portsmouth 823522

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THE ELMSGuest House

48 Victoria Road South, Southsea.(Residential Licence)

Family run Guest House, only 5 minules Irombeacn and nightlife B&B, holiday or short stayColour TV and tea/cotlee facilities in all rooms TVlounge cosy bar. close to Naval Base, ferriesstations and shops Own keys I imited parking

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SHROPSHIRE COURTGUEST HOUSE

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Ample private car-parkingMrs Pat Green (0705) 731043

"Away Days in Plymouth"Small friendly Guest House overlookingthe Hoe and Seafront A good bed and4-course breakfast, colour TV, tea/coffeefacilities, c h . en-suite rooms available

From E24 Double, £13 SinglesTelephone lot brochure

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PLYMOUTHTHE THREE TIERS GUEST

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Your Hosts: John and Glenys Saunders

SOUTHSEAEVERLEY GUEST HOUSE33 Resting Road, 0705 731001

* Satellite/Colour TV all rooms•fc Own keys, no restrictionsir Tea-making all rooms•*• Family rooms/en-suite availableit 2 mins to seafront* Discount to Service personnel

ALBATROSSGuest House

51 Waverley Road, Southsea,Hants POS 2PJ (0705 828325)

Prop Ann /fakerCar I'afk on premises

You arc guaranteed a friendly welcomein this home from home in Southsea.Each bedroom has been decorated witha nautical theme and has all the atmos-phere of the great Naval traditions ofthis area. There are also colour TV.private washing facilities, tea and cof-fee, and full central heating in eachroom. Special rales for winter months.

PLYMOUTHCRESCENT HOUSE HOTEL18, Garden Crescent, West HoeComfortable family hotel, providingfriendly professional service, yet great

value for money* 50 yds foreshore •* Clos'e city centre* Licensed * TV * Tea/coffee making

Tel: Lucy (0752) 266424

PLYMOUTHMountbatten Hotel

52 Exmouth Road, Stoke,Plymouth PL1 4QH

FAMILY-OWNED HOTEL IN QUIETCUL-DE-SAC

if Colour TV. Tea/Collee facilities all roomsir Some bedrooms en suiteir Licensed barir Evening dinner optional* Parking available * ETB 2 Crownsir Walking distance Naval Base & Fleet

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Telephone 0752 563843

•PORTSMOUTH-HAMILTON HOUSE

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Bright, modern, centrally heated rooms with CTV & tea facilities.5 mins Navalbase, centres, station & ferry port

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HELP YOURSELFTO A HOME

ON CIVVY STREET...

The Services Home Savings Scheme, SHSS for

short, is a scheme designed by the Ministry of Defence to

encourage service personnel to save towards the purchase

of a home - with the added benefit

of a new allowance.

You can save monthly, direct

from your pay account, subject to

a minimum of £50 a month and a

maximum of t200 a month. And, after

you've saved regularly every month for

a minimum of f ive years, providing you

use both your savings and the interest earned for house

purchase, the MOD will provide an additional amount

known as the 1 fome Savings Allowance.

The present rate of Allowance is set at 11 for every

t3 saved in your SHSS Account, inclusive of the interest

earned. You are eligible to join the Scheme provided you

have completed three years' service and that neither you

or your spouse currently own or part own a home.

W H Y S A V E W I T H A S K I P T O N S H S S A C C O U N T ?

For a start, when you save with the Skipton scheme,

your money will earn a very generous rate of interest.

Secondly, and more importantly, there's a built-in

interest performance guarantee throughout the life of

the account.

D I R E C T L Y L I N K E D T O B A N K B A S E R A T E

From the day you start to save, your gross interest

rate is guaranteed always to be at least 0.25% above the

prevailing Bank Base Rate.

And that's the minimum we'll

offer you. We'll attempt to maintain the

rate well in excess of Bank Base Rate

for as long as possible.

O P E N I N G Y O U R A C C O U N TFull details of the Services Home

Savings Scheme are contained in

a leaflet published by the MOD. You can obtain a copy and

a leaflet on the Skipton SHSS plus an Application Form

(MOD Form 1024) from your local administration office.

If you are eligible to join, complete the Form and

return it to the administration office. They'll take care of

everything from there onwards.

T H E I N V E S T O R ' S B U I L D I N G S O C I E T Y

SKIPTONBUILDING SOCIETY

HEAD OFFICE

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STILL cutting a dash after 25 years' service, HMS Junoenters Portsmouth for the last time flying her paying offpennant.

The Leander Class frigate knows how to play to thecrowds — in the 1970s she shared the role of "HMS Hero"with her sister HMS Phoebe in the popular BBC dramaseries "Warship".

ConfusedThe ships were said to have confused Soviet observers

by wearing their real-life pennant numbers on one sideand HMS Hero's on the other.

Juno tok part in the Rhodesia blockade in 1971 andduring the Cod War was rammed by an Icelandic coast-guard vessel. Lanerly she has been employed as marineengineering and navigation training ship.

New scopefor publicviewing

GREENWICH'S Old Royal Observatory re-opens on March24 to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of JohnHarrison, unsung genius of chronometer design.

His revolutionary time- telescope — still the largestpieces, now kept in f u l lworking order at the Obser-vatory founded by CharlesII in 1675, were the first tokeep accurate time at sea (atask Sir Isaac Newton de-clared impossible), therebysolving the problem of de-termining longitude.

The b u i l d i n g in RoyalGreenwich Park was firstopened to the public in the1950s, and contains one ofthe world's finest collec-tions of precision clocksand scientific instruments.

Now it has been refur-bished with galleries explor-ing Time and Space and As-t r o n o m y w i t h spec ia la t t r a c t i o n s i n c l u d i n g asound and light show in thedome housing the 28 inch

Tree tiewith

DoverDOVER'S Norwegian Christ-mas tree, presented each yearsince 1990 by a veteran of theNorwegian Minclaying Flotillawhich served there from 1941-44, was this year welcomed bythe former naval attache inOslo who helped establish thecustom.

Cdr. Hilary Foxworthy trav-elled to Dover to meet Finn-Chr is t ian Stumocn, the warveteran who offered the annualgift from his farm after hehelped him arrange a reunionin 1988.

Worthy of stripesHMS Exeter's Leading Cooks are always three badge men —so L/CK Vivian's relative inexperience tends to get noticed.Still, L/CKs Morgan, Theobald, Turner and Rands' combined66 years ought to see him through.

N A V Y NEWS. J A N U A R Y 1993 29

A VISIT with a difference was in store for the destroyerHMS Gloucester as she arrived at the port of Durres inAlbania — the first Royal Navy ship to visit that countrysince 1938.*

Diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom andAlbania were restored only this year, after 45 years of isola-tion, following the loss of two British destroyers with manycasualties when they hit Albanian mines laid in the CorfuChannel, and Gloucester was accompanying the British Am-bassador to Italy on his first visit.

As a run-ashore, Durres ap-peared, at first, to be somewhatdaunting, with the ship's com-pany advised to avoid eatingmeats, fish, mi lk products,poultry and vegetables, not todrink local water and not todrink from local glasses!

Perhaps not unsurprisingly,shore leave expired at 1800!

Nevertheless, bus tours toKruja and the capital city ofTirana, 40 kilometres away,proved interesting with thecountry's main highway, barelymore than a track in someplaces, passing through coun-tryside which appeared to be ina time-warp, with horse-drawnvehicles, and hundreds of con-crete de fens ive p i l l - b o x e st h r o u g h o u t t he f i e lds andpastures.

Street-tradeThere were few shops in Dur-

res, most trade being conductedby street traders, so souvenirswere hard to come by. So wasAlbanian currency (100 quin-tars = 1 lek) so the ship's com-pany had US dollars as an ac-ceptable currency. One sailor,intent on buying a postcard wasinformed by the seller, in whatwas probably his only English,that the cost was one dollar. Hewas somewhat taken abackwhen, after handing over hisdollar bill, he was given thepostcard-seller's entire stock inreturn.

Perhaps, on reflection, this isnot so surprising — the averagewage in Albania is 10 leks perday, the equivalent of about 5p.

Although the ship was notopen to the public, many offi-cial visitors toured Gloucester,including the Prime Minister,Mr. Mcksi, and Defence Minis-ter, Safet Zhulali, and groupsfrom the A l b a n i a n a rmedforces, while tours of the localPe l i cano n a v a l base werea r r a n g e d for Glouces te rpersonnel.

SanctionsOn patrol in the Adriatic,

Gloucester has been the RoyalNavy ' s c o n t r i b u t i o n to t h emulti-national force monitor-ing merchant shipping for com-pliance with the United Na-tions' sanctions against formerYugoslavia. Operating in i t i a l l ywi th the Western EuropeanUnion M a r i l i m e Force andthen with the recently-formedS t a n d i n g N a v a l ForceMediterranean.

Early in the patrol the workconsisted of calling up the shipsand ascertaining their cargoes,itinerary and ownership, andcollating a comprehensive plotof shipping movement, but inthe later stages shipping wasstopped for search with HMSGloucester being the first war-ship to arrest a merchant vesselbreaking United Nations tradesanctions.

Each patrol lasted from nineto 14 days, followed by a shortstand off for visits to variousItalian ports, including Brin-d i s i , Ven ice , Nap les andTaranto.

Additionally, escort was pro-vided for the various RFAstransitting the Adriatic en route

Gloucester inthe Adriatic

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ABOVE — After a period of54 years since the RoyalNavy last called, HMS Glou-cester comes alongside atthe port of Durres in Albania,to be met by a Guard fromthe Albanian Navy.*

"HANDS to bathe". Shipscompany were quick to takeadvantage when the chancefor a cooling swim occurredduring the Adriatic patrols.

Pictures — below, PO(M)Kid Currie, gun at the readykeeps an alert eye out forany shark with a taste forsailors. (Left), SA FrankO'Rourke scrambles backon board.

to the port of Split, deliveringlogistic support for the Britishforces operat ing in BosniaHerzegovina.

HMS Gloucester returned toher home port of Portsmouthto arrive just before Christmasafter her varied four-monthsdeployment, her task in theAdriatic having been taken orby HMS York.

ABOVE, during their stay inAlbania a 40-strong taskforce from Gloucester setabout cleaning, repairingand painting a much-neglected local orphanage.Taking a break to meet upwith the kids are, left toright, LS(R) Stu Sadler, LSPaul Shutt and CPO GeorgeThomson.

Whilst the clean-up wastaking place, the ship'sdoctor, Surg.-Lieut.-Cdr. RobChakraverty, gave the smallbabies among the orphan-age's 46 children, most ofthem abandoned by theirparents at birth, and wasalso able to supply dress-ings and antiseptics, all ofwhich are in short supply inAlbania.

IN the gunnery competition between maritime forces in the area, Gloucester was the easyoutright winner of the Otranto Cup, presented (above) to Commanding Officer Cdr.Duncan Fergusson by Rear-Admiral Enrico Martinotti, Italian Navy.

Gloucester's gunnery team, left to right, looking on, are LS(M) Ginge Higgins, Lieut.Gerry Northwood (PWO(A)), CPOWEA Perry Mason (4.5 Maintainer), WEM(O) MaddyMaddison (Gun Buster) and LS(M) Matt Fisher (Gun Controller).

Mr. L. Kelly, from Kirkcaldyin Fife, informs us that he wasserving in HMLST 77 in 1945when they called into the portof Durazzo (now called Dur-res) in Albania.

However, as he writes —"No welcome for us, armedpartisans patrolled the land-ing area to keep us from goingashore. ."

Perhaps Gloucester cantherefore claim to be the firstRN ship to be made welcomein Albania since 1938!

30 NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993

INDEFATIGABLE SCHOOL FOR BOYSAre you considering independent education but are put off by the cost?ir At Indefatigable quality education is affordable* Subsidised fees and Bursaries available•*• No charge for books, laundry etc.* Wide ranging curriculum and activities including sailing, canoeing, climbing etc.* Beautifully situated on the Anglesey shore of the Menai Strait in North Wales.

For more details of how little it costs to send your son to Indefatigable contact:Indefatigable School, Plas Llanfair, Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, Gwynedd LL61 6NT

Telephone: 0248 714338 Established 1864Indefatigable School exists to educate boys

Wilton House SchoolBattle, Hastings, East Sussex TN33 9BS. 0424 830234

Co-educational boarding and day schoolHead office and senior school: Catsfield Place, Battle

GCSE and'A' Levels 13-18 yearsJunior school: Broomham, Guestling, Hastings. 5-13 years ' A., „„, *?"

Small classes. Remedial and indiv idua l luition arranged when required.• Computer workshop, • Swimming pools, • Tennis courts, • Games

fields and horse riding. 0 Escort services to and from airports.Special terms for Service children additional to Service grants.

Established since 1954 Apply: The School Secretary

FINBOROUGH SCHOOL(formerly St George's School)

Independent Boarding and Day School for Boys and Girls

if Continuous education 7 to 18 yearsif Entry possible at any age* All staff fully qualified, mainly graduates* GCSE/A level coursesif Small classesif Traditional values and disciplinary standards* Good family atmosphereif Sensible uniform — reasonably pricedif Extensive grounds and playing fieldsit Fully inclusive fees — approx 90% covered by BSA

Apply for prospectus:The Administration Officer, The Hall, Gt. Finborough, Stowmarket

Suffolk, IP 14 3EF (0449) 674479

SEAFORDCOLLEGE

330 boys 11 to 18• Bursary available to Forces families• Traditional boys boarding school with day

girls in the 6th form.• New House for boarding and day boys aged

11 to 13.• Strong 6th Form• H I F.l' and Technology course available.• Excellent Choral and Instrumental music.• Large CCF and 100 years old.• Strong sporting traditions.• Some Senior School Day Boys.

Contact the Registrar: Seaford CollegePetworth, West Sussex GU28 ONBTel: (07896) 392 Fax: (07986) 606

Registered chari i \ i t s aim to provide education for boys and girls

NEWLANDS SCHOOL(S)SEAFORD, EAST SUSSEX

THE PREPARATORY(7-13+)

THE MANOR(13-18)

BOARDING, WEEKLY BOARDING & DAYSome things we're proud of tha i we'd l ike you lo consider:

Tradilions which go hack over 100 years and modern developments( inc lud ing co-educalion) w h i c h enhance the quali ty of lifeA f a m i l y a tmosphere of care and concern in our board ing

communitiesA style of discipline which is firm but friendlyA wide and challenging curriculumOur very good academic and sporting recordsOur wealth of extra-curricular activities in sport, music, drama, art,computing, scouling and hobbiesOur support Learning U n i t which has a distinguished record of successin assisting dyslexic hoys and girls and those for whom English is theirsecond languageThe partnership and l i n k s between the Senior and Junior Schools(ensuring academic con t i nu i t y and f a c i l i t a t i n g regular contact betweenbrothers and sisters a t tending both schools)Our Service Families children who receive generous fees discountsOur TRAVEL and ESCORT arrangements which include coaches toSouthsea and Aldershot. Minibuses to Kent and escorts to Luton.Heathrow and (iatwick Airports and London (Victoria Station).

l-iiillrcr t/ilonuulii'n Iroin:THE PREPARATORY Tel: (0323) 892334Headmaster: Roger C Clark BA, MA (ED)

THE MANOR Telephone (0323) 890309 Fax: (0323) 891599Headmaster: Brian F I i n l i - r H i K . i l MA. Dip.Ed (O\on)

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MAKING THERIGHT CHOICE

SERVICE parents often ask how they might choose theright boarding school for their child. What are some of theguidelines?

First try to ask yourself objectively what your son or daughteris really like? What are his or her interests and enthusiasms?

Some children may be happiest in a school where the majorityare children of high academic ability. Such children need thestimulation of many other able children creating an atmosphereof healthy competition and challenge.

Some able children, however, may not flourish in such sur-roundings. They may be best in a smaller school with a spreadof abilities. They may feel more comfortable without unduecompetition.

A child with learning difficulties may need a small schoolwhere specialist staff may be able to give care and attention toindividual needs.

There are some highly intelligent children who have learningdifficulties. They may need a school which possesses a staff,sympathetic to their needs within an otherwise normal school.

Parents often ask how to assess the academic standard of aschool. Some schools willingly provide lists of examinationresults. These can be confusing. Some schools may be enteringall candidates for examinations. Some may discourage entriesfrom children who might be likely to fail.

Perhaps a better way to judge a school is to ask for a list ofwhere all the sixth form, or senior form leavers, have gone inrecent years. At 18 you would be able to see how many hadgone to more demanding universities. How many had redScience, Mathematics and Languages, if these are amongstyour children's interests.

The fact that several children had to repeat exams or hadgone direct into employment should not be seen as a criticism.It is normal. Parents will want, however, to know children havegone from that school to a course for which they hope their childmight be fitted.

Look carefully at where the school is placed. It would beunwise to send a child who liked the countryside into an innercity school. At the same time it would be unwise to do theopposite.

There are schools with high academic standards which offeropportunities for their pupils to ride horses. There are schoolswhich are well known for their prowess in particular sports. Itdoesn't matter to most children that a school has not got anindoor swimming pool. If, however, hour son or daughter is acandidate for a national swimming team then it becomesessential.

In looking for a boarding school it is vital to visit and to try andmeet some of the staff who have responsibility for children outof school hours. You will need to be reassured the supervisionmeets the standards you would expect for your own children. Ifa school has no lessons on a Saturday you will need to bereassured about the activities that are offer.

Although Service parents have the advantage of a boardingschool allowance finding fees is never easy. Some schools offera number of Service bursaries. Never be afraid to ask.

If you need any further help or information telephone — AlanQuilter MA, Regional Director, The Independent Schools Infor-mation Service, South and West on 0749 86535.

HELENSBURGHPARK LODGE SCHOOL

CO-ED DAY. 2V2-12 YEARS* Excellent record for successful preparation of pupils for entry to

public and independent schools throughout the countryif Traditional academic education* Indiv idua l tu i t ion within small classes* Happy caring environment* Many sporting and recreational activit ies

Prospectus from:The Principal

PARK LODGE SCHOOL17 Charlotte Street - Hclensburgh - Dunbartonshire

telephone 0436 73008

I SpecialOpportunity

At the Royal Alexandra and Albert School weprovide a happy and stable enviroment and anexcellent standard of education for girls and boysbetween 8 and 18.

Founded in 1758, our School is managed jointlywith Surrey Education Authority andaccommodates 500 pupils. Entry is usuallybetween 8-12+.

Emphasis is placed on developing children'sindividual qualities within a framework of a goodstandard of education. Our fees are covered bythe Services Boarding School allowance andinclude the provision of School uniform.

For further information, please contact TheAdmissions Secretary, Foundation Office, RoyalAlexandra and Albert School, Gallon Park,Reigale, Surrey RH2 OTW.Tel: Merslham (0737) 642576

Palron: Her Majesty, the Queen

WHICH SCHOOL?ISIS, the Independent Schools Information Serviceoffers FREE book of junior/senior boarding & dayschools in the South & West.

Please send two 1st class stampsto ISIS, "Skippers", Shipton LaneBurton Bradstock,Dorset DT6 4NQTel: 0308 898045

WellingtonSchool, Ayr.fiROSA -«=- - •/ n«5A

SCOTLANDThe leading independent girls' boarding and day school inthe West of Scotland. Excellent academic reputation, acaring environmnet, many extra curricular activites.

Further details and a prospectus can be obtained from :—The Headmistress, Wellington School, CarletonTurrets, Ayr, KA7 2XH. Telephone (0292) 269321

WARMINSTERSCHOOL

Coeducational, Day and Boarding5 to 18 years old

Long experience in caring for Servicesfamilies

ir Pupils join at any ageir Bursaries available, plus 6th Form Scholarships, and awards at 11 +if Continuity of education across the whole age range, within a caring

friendly communityir Small class sizes, excellent facilitiesif High academic, creative and sporting standardsProspectus and further details can be obtained from Warminster School,

Church Street, Warminstcr, Wiltshire PA12 8PJ (Tel: 0985 213038)

A Registered Charity which exists to provide education lor boys and girlsOPPORTUNITY - GREAT CARE - GOOD VALUE

The School now has a policy ofcoeducation and open entry,educating over 600 boarding

pupils between 11 and 18.

Generous endowment byGreenwich Hospital enables usto offer a first class educationwith highly competitive fees.

Organised coach travel from theSouth and South West. Bursaries

available for children/grandchildrenof seafarers

Entrance Examinations 11+, 12+, 13+27thjanuary, 1993.

Prospectus and further informationfrom the Registrar.

THEROYALHOSPITALSCHOOL

Ipswich, Suffolk IP9 2RXTel: (0473) 328342

Fax: (0473) 328825Headmaster: Michael Kjrk, M.A.

An atmosphere thatencourages development

With a record of academic and sporting success that is highlyregarded by our parents, West Buckland's stimulating environmentcan help bring out the best in your child. Set on the edge of Exmoor,West Buckland is the only independent co-educational school inNorth Devon that can offer boys and girls educational continuityfrom the age of 5 through to University entrance. Day pupils andboarders are equally welcome.

Special terms are offered to members of H.M. Forces.

TO SERVE THEM ALL THEIR DAYS.If you would like to visit the school or receive a prospectus, please contact:

The Headmaster's Secretary, West Buckland School, Barnstaple, EX32 OSX.Tel: Filleigh (0598I 760281

NAVY NEWS. JANUARY 1993 31

BOARDING OPPORTUNITIESIN HISTORIC WINCHESTER

High quality staff and accommodation.Places available in thriving, high-achievingschools.Full 11-18 provision, particular opportunitiesin music and sports.Access to Winchester, city of history, culture.No charge for tuition.The very best of maintained sector —£1,693 per term.

KING'S SCHOOLROMSEY ROADWINCHESTERSO22 5PN

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THE WESTGATESCHOOLCHERITONROADWINCHESTERSO22 5AZ

11-16 Co-educationalComprehensiveBoys' boarding onlyTel: 0962 861161Fax: 849224

11-16 Co-educationalMale and femalestudents' boardingTel: 0962 852764Fax: 849372

11-16 Co-educationalComprehensiveGirls' boarding onlyTel: 0962 854757Fax: 840080

For details please contact the school or college quoting Ref: EB 2A.

Wykeham House SchoolEast Street, Fareham

G.S.A. INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS(Aged 4-16 years)

Entry: to infants by interview. To Junior School by assessmentand examination. To Senior School by Common Entrance.

For vacancies contact:The Bursar (0329) 282356

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Independent Day and Boarding SchoolANNOUNCEMENT OF SCHOLARSHIPS

Saturday 1st March, 19931. David Foster Memorial Scholarship (Value 50% of academic fees)2. Governors' Bursary (Value 50% of academic fees)3. Music Scholarship

(Value 20% of academic fees plus free tuition of one instrument)As a guideline birthdays should fall between March 1984 and April 1986.

For further details and a prospectus contactThe Admissions Secretary at the above address or telephone 0329-280955

ST JOHN'S COLLEGESOUTHSEAHAMPSHIREP05 3QWTel: (0705) 815118Fax: (0705) 873603

Catholic Independent Boarding and Day School for Boys conductedby the De La Salle Brothers. Headmaster: Rev. Brother Cyril, FSC.

Other denominations welcomedUPPER SCHOOL 11-18LOWER SCHOOL 4-11BOARDING 8-18

Girls accepted into the Sixth FormGovernment assisted places awarded annually —

28 in years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in the Sixth FormThe pupil has the advantages of an all through school and sons ofService Personnel can take up dayboy status on the parents'

retirement from the Services.Brand new facilities opened in September 1992

Sports Hall, Squash Courts, Theatre, Information Technology Labs,Sixth Form Common Room

Entrance is by examination and Headmaster's ReportYou are cordially invited to visit the School

Further information from the Headmaster's SecretaryRegistered charity — founded to provide education

FLEXIBLELEARNING

OFFICERS and ratings findthat mari t ime skil ls acquired inthe Royal Navy don't ncccssar-i l y c o u n t w h e n t h e y seekemployment on leaving the Ser-vice. Employers adver t i s ingskilled jobs often consider onlyapplicants with nationally-ac-cepted qualifications.

One answer is to take acourse l ead ing to, say, theBTEC National Certificate orCity & Guilds qualificationsneeded to pursue a chosen ci-vil ian career, while still servingin the RN.

Swindon College has devel-oped a flexible learning meth-od, enabling students to qua-lify, at their own pace, in off-duty time, in such fields aselectrical/electronic engineer-ing, electrical mechanical main-tenance and electrical installa-t i o n , w h i c h i s p a r t i c u l a r l ysuited to Service personnel.

One-to-oneThe advantage of f lexible

learning is that , as it is conduct-ed on a one-to-one individualbasis, s tuden ts can s tar t acourse at any time to suit them-selves. Skills and experiencegained in Service life are takenin account in deciding theappropriate level at which toenter a programme or the rateof progress through the course.

The system, which is basedon a series of modules and in-cludes tutor support and man-datory attendance at a summerschool at the college, has beendevised by George Somers-Hall, a retired Royal Navy wea-pons electrical officer.

Fu l l de ta i l s arc ava i l ab l efrom him at Swindon College,Faculty of Technology, Fern-dale Road Annexe, Swindon,Wilts, SN2 1HL. Tel: Swindon(0793) 498402.

Help yourselfto a second

careerFlexible Learning Courses:

BTEC National Certificate in Electrical/Electronic EngineeringCity and Guilds 214 Electrical Mechanical Maintenance

City and Guilds 236 Electrical Installation

The training and skills you have acquired in the forces are not always recognised bycivilian employers.

To make sure you don't miss out on the opportunity of a second career you shouldconsider gaining nationally accepted qualifications.

Swindon College can help you achieve this goal. Our BTEC National Certificate inElectrical/Electronic Engineering and City and Guilds courses in ElectricalInstallation and Electrical Mechanical Maintenance by flexible learning provide theback up you need to get ahead.

When you embark on our courses you gain these attractive benefits:* Nationally accepted qualifications* A flexible learning method to suit your lifestyle* Tutor support when required* Recognition of your existing skills and experience - you enter a programme at

the level which is most appropriate for you.

You don't have to wait until you leave to start these programmes. Flexible learningenables you to study at your own pace and in your own time - at home or at work.

For more information contactGeorge Somers-Hall on Swindon (0793) 498402,or write to him at this address:

Swindon College, Faculty of Technology,Ferndale Road Annex, Swindon, Wilts SN2 1HL

SWINOON COLLEGE

Progress through Learning

MICKLEFIELDSCHOOLSeaford, East Sussex BN25 4LPTelephone: (0323) 892457

Day & Boarding School for Girls 8-18

YOUR DAUGHTER DESERVESTHE BEST POSSIBLE START

if Small classes with highly qualified staffif Good academic record — over 95% go on to higher

educationif Strong Drama and Musicif Good Sporting facilities (Indoor Swimming Pool)if Generous Service Bursariesif Coaches to Victoria & Portsmouth

Upper Chine SchoolHeadmistress: Dr Helen Harvey BSc PhD

SHANKLIN, ISLE OF WIGHTIndependent G S A. Boarding and Day School (or Girls from 9-18 years

Many girls from naval families Pupil/staff ratio 8.1Entrance and sixth form scholarships, bursanes, drama and music awards available

For a free prospectus write or telephone (0983) 862208 Fax (0983) 864822

CARING AND FRIENDLYThis independent day and boarding school, offers abalanced academic programme for both boys andgirls, between 8 and 16 years, in small classes and

a homely atmosphere.Specialist help for dyslexics is available in the

Dyslexia DepartmentGenerous fee reduction for

service children

well

Cawston CollegeCawston, Norwich, Norfolk NR10 4JD

For further details or to arrange a visit pleasewrite or telephone Norwich (0603) 871204

A registered charity which exists to provide education for boys and girls

EDGEHILL COLLEGE—!Bideford, Devon

Boarding: Weekly Boarding: DayCo-educational 3-18; Large Sixth Form

Interested parents are invited to visit the College to view the excellentfacilities and meet the Academic and Pastoral Staff and students.The Sixth form is for students wishing to follow a two-year A-Levelcourse. A full extra-curricular programme of lectures, activities and

outings is offered for all age groups.

Regular transport to Exeter and PlymouthEscorts to London and all major airports

Special rates for Service families

For further details, telephone the Admissions Secretary— 0237-471701

Edgehill is a charitable institution jor the education ofchilden

THE ROYAL SCHOOLHAMPSTEAD

Founded 1855

INDEPENDENT BOARD AND DAY SCHOOLGIRLS AGED 5 TO 18 YEARS

if Traditional Curriculum including two foreignlanguages and three science subjects

if High teacher to pupil ratioif Continuity of education to 18 yearsif Small, friendly school in pleasant surroundings

and with ample parkingif Flourishing activities include Physical

Education, Drama, Dance, Music and Speechif Frequent educational and cultural visitsif Escort service for young girls to travel terminiif Fees closely related to Service Boarding School

Allowanceif Bursaries available for daughters of

ex-Servicemen in need

For prospectus write or telephone:The Principal, The Royal School Hampstead

65 Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, London NWS 5UD.Telephone: 071-794 7708

Registered charity founded to provide for the education of the daughters of servicemen.

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NAVY NEWS. JANUARY 1993 33

Piderwraps Cuts and changes

for RFA FleetTHE ROYAL Fleet Auxiliary is about to take its share of the cutbacks in defenceexpenditure with a reduction in manpower from the present 2,450 sea-going personnelto 2,050, to take place over the next 18 months.

It is anticipated that most of this reductionwill be achieved by natural wastage and earlyretirement, although there may be a need for upto 140 redundancies. All RFA personnel havebeen informed of the situation.

Three fleet tankers are to be taken put ofservice, Blue Rover and Grey Rover in thespring of this year and Black Rover in early1994.

(Sister-ship RFA Gold Rover is currently onstation in the South Atlantic).

Coming in to service shortly will be the twonew fleet replenishment ships Fort George andFort Victoria.

From April 1st this year the RFA Flotilla willbecome part of Fleet Command, with a newpost for the senior RFA officer as RFA TypeCommander. Taking up this post, under thecommand of C-in-C Fleet, will be CommodoreDick Thorn. His headquarters will be set up atPortsmouth to effect the necessary close liai-son between the RFA Fleet and Flag OfficerSurface Flotilla.

Repair work to the Clock Tower at Britannia Royal NavalCollege Dartmouth will be completed In time for Lord HighAdmiral's Divisions in April,

Lichen ami other growth on thft walls of the tower is beingremoved with high pressure water jets while steel braces arefitted inside to strengthen the distinctive Dartmouth landmark,built In 1905.

Success for NaafiTHE return of troops from service in the Gulf resulted in a successful trading year for Naafi

and prompted turnover to rise £21 million to £452 million.In Germany alone, turnover rose to a record £221 million. In the UK. the figure rose to

£192 million, while Naafi Financial Services rose 24 per cent to £25 million.This success has, however, r an t s , and pizza d e l i v e r y

services; and a promotionalcampaign and product range re-view aimed at making Naaficlubs social centres of Servicebases.

Going DutchTWO ant i - submar ine Sea

King helicopters of D Flight,826 Naval Air Squadron, basedat RNAS Culdrose, spent twomonths embarked in the Neth-erlands fast combat supportship HMNLS Poolster duringher Medi te r ranean deploy-ment.

They carried out a varied

programme of flying which in-cluded participation in Exer-cise Display Determination 92and providing flights for CrownPrince Phillipe of Belgium.

Later this year, in July, it isplanned that 826 Sqn wi l lamalgate wi th another SeaKing squadron, 819 NAS, atPrestwick in Scotland.

been tempered by realisationthat Naafi must change itsstructure and operations to dealwith the fal l in customernumbers resulting from Op-tions for Change.

In its annual report and ac-counts, published in December,the corporation's chairman (SirMalcolm Field) said, "In antici-pating the turbulent tradingconditions predicted by forth-coming Service cuts, Naafi hasturned its attention to the chal-lenges of reducing the loss-mak-ing operations in UK."

To tackle the hurdles that lieahead, the organisation is un-dergoing a p rogramme ofchange and restructure. Majorplans include: a revised tradingformat to make shops meet thespecific needs of customers; de-velopment of new club facili-ties, such as hot food restau-

Naafi's trading surplus (prof-it) rose by £10 million to £16million during the last financialyear. A total of £16.3 millionwas returned to customers. Ofthis, £5.1 million went to indi-viduals through discount ordividend, and £3.9 million waspaid in rebate. Units benefittedfrom gaming machine revenueof £6.1 million, and £1.2 mil-l ion from a m u s e m e n tmachines.

In addition, Naafi has paid afurther £550,000 in extra re-bate to Central Services Fundsto support customers' recre-a t i o n a l and welfare needs.These figures, plus a £900,000

provision for future rebate, rep-resent a return of about 77 percent of distributable profits tocustomers in 1991-92.

Other points mentioned inthe report include: an expan-sion in number of f inancecentres; the number of NaafiBudget Card and Charge Cardholders r i s ing by 5,000 to114,000; an increase in thenumber of f inancial serviceproducts available, inc ludingredundancy advice, and ServiceGuard personal effects insur-ance cover; and £9,000 spon-sorship of Service sport.

The Expeditionary Force In-stitutes (EFI — Naafi's uni-formed branch) has been oper-ating with troops in war-tornYug9slavia, and with the RoyalMarines' annual three-monthexercise in Norway, where salesrose by 40 per cent.

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HMS Beaver paid a six-dayvisit to her adopted town ofBolton, the Ship's CompanyDance at the Rit?.y Nightspotbeing the highspot of the bustrip across from Liverpool.

The ship's company — in-cluding its contingent of Wrens— also vis i ted its adoptedGreen Fold School and hosteda party for the children.

HMS Coventry renewed hertics with her namesake city lastmonth when seven of her ship'scompany ran the 240 milesfrom Dcvonport with appren-tices from the Rover factory.

Time off from the Type 22frigate's recent busy scheduleon the B a h a m i a n A U T E Cranges was spent tractor racing— a form of "horse racing"with toy tractors propelledacross the flight deck accordingto the throw of the dice —which raised £800 for the Cov-entry-based Amanda BevanFund for peopjc disabledthrough sporting injuries.

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34 NAVY NEWS, JANUARY 1993

Seahawk'stop again

AN outstanding team effort saw the Royal Navy volleyballteam to two 3-0 victories (against Havant and Whitefield),but there was a breakdown in performance in the side's EVACup 1st round match at Plymouth, leading to a 3-0thrashing.

At Christ's Hospital School,Horsham, the RN lost to thenewly-formed Crawley Royals,but then seized back the initia-tive to overpower the youngPurbrook side and come awaywith half the points.

Thirteen teams converged onHMS Nelson for two days ofintense competition to settlethe Inter-Unit Competition.The final stages were dominat-ed by three Fleet Air Armteams and HMS Neptune.

Neptune provided excellentvalue for spectators through-o u t , w i t h G r a h a m B a i n e sstanding out. However, specta-tor value proved not to be

enough in the semi - f ina lagainst HMS Daedalus. Theother semi-finalists were HMSGannet and defending champi-ons HMS Seahawk, with thechampions gaining the edge.

The final was a lacklustre af-fair, with clean but unspectacu-lar volleyball. Seahawk turnedup the pressure when requiredto take the title for the fifthtime in succession.

A special mention must go toHMS Raleigh who surprisedeveryone by reaching the finalstages of the competition, tak-ing a set off HMS Seahawk inthe process.

-RANDALL-MAKES

HISTORYHMS DRAKE was the venue for the Royal Navy Interme-diate Team and Individual Open Boxing Championships'92, writes Lieut. Gary (Jock) Bushell.

Following the success ofthe Novice Championships,those upgraded to interme-diate standard had thechance to proceed a stagefurther in the first suchchampionships for twoyears.

The evening had the add-ed sparkle of being a dinnershow, with local businessesgiven the opportunity of join-ing the Service supportersfor a first class evening ofboxing.

The event raised over£1,500 for Service charitiesand was a fine testament tothe hard work and organisa-tion of many within Drake,but primarily WOPT Shoneand POPT Frame.

Although the Royal Mar-ines won the team competi-tion they did not have thingsall their own way. If thePlymouth Command super-heavyweight boxer had notwithdrawn at the last minute,WOPT Shone's men wouldhave been guaranteed atleast a share of the honours.

The bout of the night wasthe open featherweight finalbetween LPT Dale Randall

(Avenger) and Mne Manley(Comacchio Group). Randallproved to be too strong forhis opponent and went on tomake history as the first RNboxer to win belts in threedifferent weight divisions.

The evening was conclud-ed with a fine display of box-ing skills by Mne McCormac(45 Cdo) against MEM Leiba(Trafalgar). Although Leibawas well beaten, it was nodisgrace against the formerWelsh and ABA champion.

Full results — Flyweight: AB Hewarwon walkover. Bantamweight: WEMEccles walkover. Featherweight: ABEvans walkover. Lightweight: MneOowie (RM) bt WEM Blackburn (Portsmouth) RSC. Mne. Lonkley (RM) btMEM Caldiera (Plymouth) pts(m). Wel-terweight: Mne. Homer (RM) bt CkBingham pts(u). Light-middleweight:Mne Leigh (RM) bt Mne Screen (RM)pts(u). Middleweight: LWtr Cummings(NAC) bt AB Mabbutt (Ply) pts(u). Light-heavyweight: MEM Leeman (Ports) btMne Hurford (Rm) pts(m). Heavy-weight: AB Kershaw (ply) but Mne Ker-ry (RM) pts(m). Superheavyweight:Mne Proud(RM) won walkover. RM 22,Plymouth 20. Portsmouth 6, Air 3.

Open championships: Fly: AB Wood-cocok won walkover. Feather: LPTRandall bt Mne Manley pts(u). Wetter-weight: Mne French won walkover.Lightmiddle: Mne Thompson won walk-over. Super heavy: Mne McCormac btMEM Leiba pts(u).

THE RN boxing reunion will take place at HMS Nelson onFebruary 18 1993. The evening will coincide with the RN vArmy Inter-Service Championships fixture. For further detailsplease contact Lieut. Gary Bushell, Hon. Sec. RNBA, PTOffice, HMS Nelson.

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The financial support offeredby WA Consultants meanscoaching will now be availablefor the team. Some of theplayers have already taken ad-vantage of the scheme.

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the Royal Navy during thecoming season should contacteither their Command golf rep-resentative or the RN Golf Sec-retary, Lieut . -Cdr. Kn igh t(HMS Mercury ext. 370) assoon as possible.

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Portsmouth takesbadminton title

PORTSMOUTH Command came out nar-row winners in the Inter-Command Bad-minton Championships held in HMS Sul-tan. After two days of intense competitionthey beat the Fleet Air Arm into secondplace by just five games.

Despite the absence of some top Navy players,the overall standard of badminton was higherthan in recent years and there were no easy games.More matches than ever before had to be decidedin a third end.

The outstanding pair of the tournament wereDevonport's AB Steve Losh and Const. Mid. Ri-chard Hughes, who won all 12 of their games. Inthe exciting finale to the competition they madeup a nine point deficit to clinch a thrill ing victoryover Portsmouth's WO Richard Wiseman and

LMEM Graham Caute, who had also won all 11of their previous games.

Other notable doubles performances came fromFAA pairs Cdr. Rhod Palmer/Lieut.-Cdr. GeoffRowlands and WrenStd Trish Moran/Lieut. Da-vid Hill, each winning 10 out of 12. Trish was thetournament's only woman player.

As usual, the singles events were dominated byFAA's CPO Ted Hill, who won all eight of hismatches. CPO Mark Balmforth (Scotland) per-formed well to win seven.

Special awards for endeavour were made to theRoyals' pairing of Mne. George Glassock/Mne.John Byrne and the Portsmouth singles player RSDave Woodhouse.

Result: Portsmouth 37, FAA 32, Royal Marines25, Scotland 20 and Devonport 16.

Navy goals come thick and fastTHE NAVY team travelledto SE London to meet theAmateur Football Alliancein what turned out to be anentertaining game of foot-ball, writes Lieut.-Cdr JimDunks.

Both sides tried to counterthe wet and windy conditionswith neat passing, but it wasthe AFA who went ahead. Thisstung the Navy into action andLPT Grant Williams (Sultan)and POPT Nick Haigh (Ra-l e i g h ) both went close toscoring.

The Navy equalised on thehalf hour when LWtr Paul Ben-son (MCM2) cooly headedhome a cross from Haigh. Eightminutes later Bayles restoredthe AFA lead. Then, just beforehalf time, the Navy were backon equal terms when POPTEric Barrett (Cochrane) took afree kick on the right hand side

of the field and scored with agood shot, his first goal for thesenior side.

The second half saw theNavy exert more pressure withthe wind behind them. AfterMcNeill saw his shot saved,Haigh scored from a narrowangle to make the score 3-2.AFA looked dangerous in at-tack and several times threa-tened the defence, but despitegood efforts from both sets offorwards, there were no moregoals and the Navy won 3-2.

In the RN v UAU game atBurnaby Road, the pattern ofplay developed with the Uni-versities Athletic Union adopt-ing an off side strategy which atfirst proved successful againstthe eager RN forwards. Despitethis, the Navy built up a 3-0lead by half time, with a goalfrom Haigh and two fromThwaites.

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the in terval and the UAUshowed much improvement,dominating the first 20 minutesof the second half and scoringonce. AB Paul Gibbons (Lan-caster) then scored his first goalfor the seniors, a fine headerfrom a corner to make the score4-1.

The Navy approached theirfirst match in the South WestCounties Competition againstGloucester on December 16with an unbeaten record andkeen to avenge their defeat lastseason. They did so, winning 4-1.

Benson and Thwaites were inCombined Services' startingline up for their match againsta Football Association XI. Bothperformed well. Despite betterchances, CS found themselves1-0 down.

Barrett made his debut forCombined Services in thesecond half, the first 20 min-

utes of which were dominatedby the FA. Ross scored hissecond for them. Sig. JimStrouts (Army) had the chanceto reduce the lead for the Ser-vices, but John McKenna in theFA goal smothered his shot.

Oxford University playedsome good attacking football tostretch the Navy defence in thefirst half of their match, butfailed to score. In the secondhalf, the RN forwards createdseveral good chances but poorfinishing was their downfalland they failed to break thedeadlock. Result 0-0.

The goal famine ended whenthe RN travelled to MotspurPark to meet London Univer-sity on a pitch made very wetby persistent rain. BrendanHurley nearly scored in the firstattack when POMEA StuartAdams dropped the ball, but heshot over an empty net.

The RN midfield were gradu-

ally getting a grip and followinggood work from POCA DesMercer (Edinburgh) and Riley,Pollard shot well but saw hisgoalbound effort cleared off theline. Three RN goals then fol-lowed just before half time —scorers LPT Fraser Quirke(Nelson) (2) and POPT GlenYoung (Centurion).

Coach Tommy Johnsonmade four changes, and thegoal rush continued. Haigh,CPO George Barclay (Gun-wharf), Thwaites (2) and Rileytook the score up to 8-0.

The Navy's game against theEnglish Fire Service was can-celled due to rain.

January fixtures: 12 v MetPolice at Imber Court, 1930kick off; 20 v Civil Service atBurnaby Rd, ko 1415; and 27 vDevon County FA in SW Coun-ties Cup at Dawlish FC, ko1930.

TROPHYFOR

EMERYA FIRM pitch with aclear sky overhead pro-vided ideal conditionsat RN air station Yeoyil-ton for the premier in-ter-command rugbymatch between NavalAir and the Royal Mar-ines, writes Copt. BobFletcher RM.

Both fielded strongsides, which included nofewer than 10 member ofthe full Royal Navy squadfor the inter-services laterin the season.

An early dominance wasestablished by the power-ful RM pack and good ballfrom set pieces providedthe opportunities for theirbacks, which resulted intwo early tries by left wingGeorge Taylor, at presentplaying for Devonport Ser-vices. A further try by wingforward Ian McGill saw thehalf time score to 15-0.

The beginning of thesecond half saw consis-tent pressure from MAC,who were unable to crossthe Royals' line. In themeantime, RM No. 8 DayeyDickson (London Scottish)suffered a groin strain andwas replaced by Leo Ryan.

A quick repaste by theRoyal Marines' pack led toa try by prop Dick Emery,who before the game hadbeen presented with the"Steve" Perry Trophy bythe Commandant GeneralRoyal Marines, Lieut.-Gen.Sir Henry Beverley as theplayer who had contribut-ed most to RM rugby dur-ing the season.

During the last quarter ofthe match the NAC de-fence finally collapsed andfurther tries were scoredby the Royals' Leo John-son (wing threequarter),Bobby Armstrong (secondrow), Paul Livingstone(scrum half) and ex-RNcaptain Mick Reece (wingforward). The last two trieswere converted by fullback Jai Patterson.

The final score of 44-0greatly maligned a NACteam which had providedstiff opposition for most ofthe game.

Teams — NAC. Mark Gibson.Mark Harrold (Yeovilton), Ray Clarke(3 Bgde AS). Paul Morgan (Yeovil-ton). Gareth Price (Portland), MikeHawden (FONA). Chris Slocombe(Yeovilton), Ewan Cowie (Culdrose),Chris Harris. Nick Bartlett (Yeovilton),Dinga O'Sullivan (Culdrose), JackParnell (Daedalus), Scott Buckmas-ter (Culdrose), Paul Dunn, and MarkBarron (Yeovilton) (capt).

RM: Jai Patterson (M and AW Cad-re), George Taylor (539 AS), CarlHowley (Cdo Log Regt), Mark Cud-dihy (40 Cdo), Lee Johnson (Cdo LogRegt), Dominic McDonald (CTCRM),Paul Livingstone (CTCRM), Dick Em-ery (45 Cdo). Martin Isaacs(CTCRM), Ron Biggs (CTCRM). BobArmstrong (40 Cdo), Corrin Palmer(Cdo Log Regt), Mick Reece (40 Cdo)(capt), Ian McGill (M and AW Cadre)and Davey Dickson (DCGRM).

Fixtures for 1993 — January: 12 vPlymouth Albion, Rectory Ground1915; 20 v Oxford University, Oxford1415; 27 v Combined London OldBoys (RN XV), Burnaby Rod 1415; 27v Cambridge University, Bumaby Rd1800. February: 3 v Cornwall, SIAustell 1900; 17 v Exeter, Rectory1915; 24 v Metropolitan Police (RNXV), Imber Court 1430; 24 v Rich-mond, tba 1900. March: 2 v Bristol,Bristol, 1915; 13 v Army, Twicken-ham, 1500; 24 v London Irish, Sun-bury, 1900; 31 (Wed) Royal AirForce, Twickenham, 1500.

HOCKEYINTER-Co mm and and In-ter-Service competitionswere settled when the Com-bined Services Hockej Asso-ciation held its indoor cham-pionships at HMSCollingwood. The senior in-ter-service event was won bythe RAF, with the Armysecond and the Royal Navythird. lit the under 21s sec-tion the Army won, followedby the Navy and then theRAF. Support Commandwon the i n t e r -command

ROYALPATRON

FOLLOWING an approachto Buckingham Palace byCommodore RichardBridges, new chairman ofthe Royal Naval EquestrianAssociation, currentlyserving as CommodoreAmphibious Warfare, thePrincess Royal has agreedto become Patron of theRNEA — Show Jumpingand Eventing.

This patronage is partic-ularly welcome for a rapid-ly emerging sport andcrowns a string of suc-cesses in 1992. These in-cluded winning the NATOTeam Cup at the RhineArmy Summer Show at Pa-derborn, Germany, in theface of particularly stiffArmy opposition.

The bulk of these suc-cesses have been due tovery generous help fromDNPTS in acquiring an ex-perienced show jumper,which proved invaluable tothe Navy team for much ofthe season.

A second horse is aboutto be purchased and it ishoped there will be furthersuccesses in '93, whenPrincess Anne's patronagewill greatly enhance theprofile of this sport.

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GUESTS OFTHE KING'S

TROOPA ROYAL Navy team from the South West (pictured left)was among those competing in the 16th Honourable Artil-lery Company Uniformed Services Jumping Competition,hosted by The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery at their SiJohn's Wood barracks.

Captained by Lieut.-Cdr. Ri-chard Randall (Manadon), theRN team included PO DougStewart (Yeovilton) Wren Don-na Jenkin (Manchester), Cpl.Simon Bustany (42 Cdo) andCpl. Terry Coleman (40 Cdo).They rode the King's Troop'stough horses; Donna being oneof eight Servicewomcn takingcharge of horses more used totowing a gun and limber.

Richard Randall was runner-up in the individual Hunting

Scurry, the Hugh Auger Memo-rial Plate.

Other competi tors at thec o m p e t i t i o n i n c l u d e d t h eFrench Cavalry, the BelgianNavy, the Royal Air Force andthe Royal Wcssex Yeomanry,who won the team event. TheMetropolitan Police, the FirstAid Nursing Yeomanry and theOmani Defence Forces werealso represented.Picture: Courtesy Pleasure Prints.

Newbury.

SportLondoners vie in Dubai

HMS London A (in black) v the DubaiDragons in the final of the ForeshawUnion Cup in Dubai. Picture: POMEA

Tug Wilson.

HMS LONDON'S A and Brugby teams represented theRoyal Navy in the 23rd Du-bai International Rugby 7sTournament, held at theDubai Exiles RFC ground.

Taking part were teams rep-resenting England, Scotland,Canada, Hong Kong, Franceand the former Soviet Union,

together with First Divisionteams from the UK, Australia,New Zealand, Sri Lanka andthe Gulf states.

The London's two teamscompeted for the ForeshawUnion Cup (Social League)against representative sidesfrom all parts of the Emirates,in front of a capacity crowd of10,000. After the first day, the

local Dubai press were tippingthe Navy as hot favourites forthe final.

The B team, captained byPOWEA Cecioni eventuallylost 0-15 in the semi-final,while the A team, captained byPOMEM D a n n y Carrol lreached the final, there onlynarrowly being beaten by theDubai Dragons 12-14.

IN A roaring gale HMS Nelson, became the first team everto win the Navy Rugby Knockout Cup twice in succession.They defeated HMS Neptune their Faslane Naval Basecounterparts 19-10 in an evenly matched contest at BurnabyRoad, Portsmouth.

In the first half, with thewind at their back, Nelson pro-vided the early pressure andafter five minutes fullbackCorps took the ball on theburst, thirty yards out, fromcentre Wilson to score on theright. Dymond made the con-version.

Despite continued pressurefrom Nelson, a breakaway trystarted by Harris and Pit andfinished by Ewart kept HMSNeptune in the game. Just be-fore half time a line out on theNeptune line was won by Nel-son and hooker Clay was driv-en over for a well deserved for-wards try.

With the strong wind in theirfavour in the second half Nep-tune's hopes of closing the gapwere frustrated by the Nelsonforwards who took commandof the game. Although stand off

Bethwaite managed a wel lworked try in the corner forNeptune they were unable tostem Nelson's forward powerand a crowning try for Dymondsaw Nelson home safely.

HMS NELSON'S team comprised: CPO BBenford, POPT C. Clay. LWEM S. Burns,CPO A. Patience, CSGT W. Hall. CPO BEde, PO S. Smith. LWEM S. Whitter, POA. Baxter, S/LT Dymond, CPO T. Wilson,CPO J. Pocklington, AB P. Moore, CPOS. Hampton, CPO S. Corps.

HMS NEPTUNE'S line up: CPO P. Cum-mins, LT D. Jarvis, PO D. Hobson, LT P.Hubbard, LPT A. Ralston, MEM G. Mos-sop, CPO A. Wright, CPO R. Thorpe,POPT S. Harris, PO K. Bethwaite, AB JHewitt, PO I. Fletcher, CPO J. Pit, LPT W.May, PO A. Gowrie.

Above: Mudied but unbowed— Sub-Lieut. Nick Dymond(Captain of the Nelson team)collects the cup from Capt.Tony Hallett. chairman of theRNRU.

CHAMPION SHIPHMS Andromeda re-turned from her fivemonth deployment inthe North Atlantic andMediterranean with agold medal for winningthe Standing NavalForce Atlantic SportsOlympiad.

In all, seven ships fromdifferent countries held theOlympiad during a routineport visit to Barcelona. Fit-tingly, the games werestaged in the city's Olym-pic Stadium.

Together with the longjump, high jump, 100msprint, 400m relay and tug-of-war, events includedthe Terry Fox Run, in aid ofa Canadian charity.

Learn tosave alife at

OspreyALL local Service andMOD personnel andtheir families are wel-come at the newBoscawen Life SavingClub at HMS Osprey,which aims to provide acomplete programme oflife saving training.

New members — eitherin the water to learn or on'the poolside to help/teach— are invited to contactLieut.-Cdr. D. J. Harman,UW254N/DGUW(N), DRASouthwell, Portland, Dorset(Tel. DRA Southwell (0305820381) ext 3745) orRNASA contacts, Lieut.Tessa Bates, CTCRMLympstone 0392 873781ext 349 or (RN Masters)Lieut.-Cdr. Ron Kimber RN(retd.), HMS Temeraire,Portsmouth.

Meanwhile, the RNASA,always on the look-out fortechnical officials and spe-cialist teachers, wants toestablish the level of ex-pertise with the Royal Navyand Royal Marines.

The Association wouldlike to hear from all per-sonnel qualified in swim-ming, life saving, divingand water polo disciplinesas official, coach, teacher,examiner, trainer/adviser,moderator, adviser or tu-tor. Use above contacts.Also if you are interestedin qualifying in any ofthese categories.

36 N A V Y NEWS. J A N U A R Y 1993

Last flight for CanberrasAFTER 23 years flying in support of the Royal Navy the lastthree Canberra TT18 aircraft retired from service lastmonth.

First taken on in 1969 the aircraft were conversions ofthe B2 bomber variant which entered service with the RAFin 1950.

Used to provide towed arrayed target facilities for war-ships and Sea Harrier air-to-air banner firings, the Canber-ras were capable of simulating a wide range of surface andairborne threats.

Operated by civilian contractors, latterly Flight RefuellingServices, the aircraft belonged to the Fleet Requirementsand Aircraft Direction Unit based at RN air station Yeovil-ton.

Their tasks will be taken over by Falcons (convertedbusiness jets owned by the contractors) which have beenoperating with the Navy since 1985.

Picture: PO(Phot) Joe Mercer.

MOD takes centreline on pay policy

which have taken place recently was the

JANUARY 1 1993 sees implementation of another recommenda-tion of the Prospect Study, with all elements of pay andallowances policy being transferred from the three individualServices to MOD Central staff.

Involving representatives from for service conditions matters,all three Services, this new depart- .Among other naval staff changesment will also be responsible forthe tri-Scrvice policy elements ofService conditions.

The Navy staff involved will transferlo Central staff and remain in Londonas part of the newly-established Direc-torate of Personnel (Royal Navy). Theother Services will be represented bysimi lar Directorates on the Centralstaff.

Their tasks will include tri-Servicepolicy on leave, travel, accommodationstandards, customs, and honours andawards, as well as virtually the entirepay and allowances area.

At the same time, the RN Directorateof Personnel wil l maintain close l inks atvarious levels lo its "parent" Service.The Director of Naval Service Condi-tions wil l retain the single-Service focus

formation last autumn of the Director-ate of Naval Operations, while thismonth the new Directorate of NavalManagement and Communication andInformation Systems is established.

• Progress on the Headquarters fornew Second Sea Lord/CINCNAV-HOME organisation — see page 16.

FORCED JOB LOSSESFOR NEARLY 150

A total of about 1,270 peoplewere selected for redundancy inPhase 2 of the Royal Navy's redun-dancy programme. Of this figurethe vast majority were volunteers,but it was necessary to select atotal of about 150 who did not puttheir names forward.

Everyone involved has been no-tified and they are due to leave theService between April and the end

of November this year.The figures involved were 436

officers (69 of whom were non-vo-lunteers) and 836 ratings (80 non-volunteers).

The final figure compares with acall for a total of about 1,100 in thisphase, but with category require-ments, rank, and years of servicehaving a bearing in the selectionprocedure.

Reportsopen tofamilies

IN future next of kin of Ser-vice personnel ki l led onduty will be able, subject toessential minimum securityrequirements, to see reportsof military boards of in-quiry wherever possible.

The change is in line with theGovernment's general policytowards greater openness, theCommons was told.

In the past some parents,wives, husbands and childrenhave complained of lack ofinformation.

For the Government it wasstated that a board of inquiryreport was often technical andcomplex and likely lo includespecific description of the con-duel of named Service person-nel in an incident.

In view of obligations lo thedeceased and their families, itwould not be appropriate tomake such documents widelyavailable. But the special posi-tion of next of kin was recog-nised and in fulure Ihcre wouldbe a general prcumption that,subject to the essential mini-mum of security requirements,such reports would be madeavailable to them whereverpossible should they request it.

The move also reflected gen-uine concern to ensure thatnext of kin were treated in assympathetic and helpful man-ner as possible, it was stated.

End of an eraat Birkenhead

CAMMELL Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, builder ofmany famous ships for the Royal Navy, is to close inJuly, leading to possible loss of up to 900 jobs.

The yard has been underthreat for two years sinceits owner VSEL said itcould no longer justify re-tention of two warshipyards at Barrow and Bir-kenhead and had decidedeither to sell the CammellLaird yard or close it oncompletion of the currentorder book.

But it has not proved poss-ible to find a buyer, and nowbeing considered is the bestway in which the site can bedeveloped to attract industrialinvestment.

The yard's current orderbook consists of HMS Uni-corn, due for completion inJuly; work on the replenish-ment ship RFA Fort Victoria,due for completion during theSpring; and work on HMS Osi-ris, being dismantled for theCanadian Navy.

The yard began buildingwarships in 1828 and at differ-ent stages has employedhuge numbers of people. Twoyears ago when VSEL an-nounced that a buyer wasbeing sought it employed2,000.

Polaris boatsIn its heyday it built a

succession of famous RNwarships, including the battle-ships Prince of Wales andRodney, and both the wartimeHMS Ark Royal and her imme-diate namesake successor.Built there too were the Po-laris boats HMS Renown andRevenge.

Besides constructing nearly100 warships and 57 submar-ines between the wars, it alsobuilt the passenger linerMauretania. The war yearsalso saw the building of manyvessels.

THE band plays on for five female members ofthe Royal Marines who have completed theirinitial military training at the Royal MarineSchool of Music, Deal.

Claire Frazer, Melanie Bocking, ex-LWRENVicki Bradford, Louise Curley and CatherinePhillips, pictured with the drummers of the DealStudent Band, were among eight women whopassed a tough 15-week course, achieving thesame standards as male recruits.

They now begin two demanding years ofmusical training learning to play two musicalinstruments and will continue to have periodicmilitary training.

Commanding Officer of the RM School of Mu-sic, Lieut.-Col. Hay Ferrier said, "I have been

impressed with the way these young womenhave coped with such demanding training. Wehave made no special allowances for them andthey have been treated in exactly the same wayas male recruits.

"It is a great credit to their efforts that somany have been successful."• Rachael Piner, one of the eight women tohave completed the course, is keeping up along-held family tradition.

Dad Alan is a "Bandy" along with her elderbrother Adrian while her younger brother Rus-sell is a cadet.

The Piners can also trace their family servicein the Marines back to the late 18th century.

Picture: PO(Phot) Paul Cowpe.

VANGUARDON COURSEBRITAIN'S first Trident submarine HMS Vanguard hasmade a successful start to her contractor's sea trials.

These have included peri-scope depth trials, shallow diveand first intermediate dive.

The series of trials also in-volves propulsion, ship controlsystems, torpedo tube water-shot firings, and strategic wea-pons systems trials.

Later she was carrying outexercises to obtain clearancefor the next trials series, whichincludes deep diving opera-tions.

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CarriercontractCURRENT plans are toplace a contract in autumn1993 for an amphibious he-licopter carrier for the Roy-al Navy, it was stated inanswer to a Commonsquestion.