A Career At Sea?: added Energy Mines & Resources (Canada) and Fisheries & Oceans (Canada) thanks to J Kearsey (59-62) we now have 666 shipping companies. Thanks to E. Worthington we've added our 57th pilot - Atlantic Pilotage Authority ((Halifax and other ports in Nova Scotia). testtest

The History of Conway Book page updated with lots of reviews.

Past events removed from Diary pages. Added new page for the Australia/NZ reunion in Nov 2008. Photos will be added in due course.

A new Figurehead page (accessible from the Relics pages) shows the best images I can find of the original figurehead and of the making and masting of the new one in 1937/8. There are links to the various image albums of the figurehead.

How We Look Today - added Chris Brazier (51-53), Paul Baxter (61-64) and the Davies brothers.

Image Archive has 513(!) new images this month - all are in the Accessions albums as usual. We now have 4,883 images all told. We could make 5,000 by the New Year if you send me yours.....

New theme albums are Advertisements, Conway Certificates, Conway & Titanic (linked form Notables), Prospectuses from 1919, 1936, 1952 and 1959, Sextant Clases, Tour of the Rock Ferry playing fileds, Tour of the Strait at PN, to Bangor and to PD,

New photos are mainly in 1960-64 (thanks particularly to Paul Baxter (61-64) and Chris Puxley (61-64), but also some from 1919-21, 1935, 1941, 1951 and 1953. There are even new ones of the loss the Ship (a tug making for Menai Bridge Pier and more offloading shots)

I've created a whole new set of albums for Documents this wil grow as there are lots more to add.

In Memoriam updated with new pages for "Lifesaving Awards" (a list of the awards granted to OCs and profiles of several recipients) and a list of wars, campaigns, expeditions etc. in which OCs participated.

Notables: added a new entry for the 8th Earl Egmont.

Personal Web Sites - added 1961-64 Chris Puxley as the 158th entry.

John Perry's autobiography added to the home page

A Career At Sea?: Now 662 shipping companies and 136 entries to the list of jobs ashore.

Album - Art Gallery split into three: Named Artists, Unknown Artists and Cartoons.

Album - Crests, Badges & Ensigns updated the entries for the "Castle Crest' and Ensigns

Album - Conway 2 As Edgcumbe: added a new photo of Conway II (ex Winchester) being broken up in 1921.

Album - Covers of the Cadet magazine album revised to show that the "Mauve Shoesmith" cover was adopted in 1919 to replace the "Green Telescope" version, and that the "Red Shoesmith" cover was adopted from August 1932 (see page 278 of that edition). It seems to have remained in use until 1946 except for the 1939 "Red Centenary" cover' edition. If you have covers different to those shown please email me.

Album - Ship Deck Plans I've completed re-loaded these images as many people couldn't download them.This album contains very large and incredibly detailed plans of every square inch of the Ship. You can see full plans of each deck, or sections of each deck. They are best downloaded and viewed on your computer where you can expand them as much as you want.

Album - Tour of the Camp split into two Inside (the Huts) and Outside.

Club page updated with a brief description of the various versions of the Club badge/crest. If you have better info please email me.

Image Archive Now 4,367 images after adding 220 new images including many interesting photos of the 1937 refit, several new shots of the 1938 figurehead masting, 17 for 1945, 15 for 1958, 14 for 1959, 12 for 1961, 13 for 1963 (includes one of the Pinnace almsot totally submerged on her side). Thanks to David Pye for a new album -1964 The End of the Camp, 20 for 1964, 2 for 1970 and 5 of the paying off ceremony. New albums for 1915, 1921, Flying, Shooting, Cross Country and Committee Chairmen. All in Accessions album

Notables:

-  Thanks to Geoff Haskins for info about Rear Admiral (E) Frederick Stewart Billings FS CBE RN (1913-14).

-  Moved the list of Commodores of Shipping Cos to the Notables page so that it's with the list of senior officers in the three uniformed servcies. Added CWR Royds as our 18th Commodore RN.

-  Added Lt Cdr Ian Fraser VC's obituary from Sea Breezes

157 Personal Web sites - added 1917-18 Cdr Selwyn John Power Warrand RN, 1961-63 Richard Collinson and 1961-62 Jeremy Kemp

Relics updated details about the Altar Rail, Field Gun, Ships Window and Taffrail

Slop Chest updated with fuller descriptions of the ensigns and of the Norbury and Mitchell cups.

Small Boats big update with new info about nearly all existing boats, several new boats and new photos.

Staff:

-  Chairmen of the management committe: filled in lots of gaps with more details and photos. Only one gap now remains for the period 1859 - 1889.

-  Padres: Filled a gap bewteen 1911 and 1919 with two more Padres and a new Padre for 1973-4.

-  Chief Officers: Added a new Chief Officer for 1936, and about a dozen new members of staff.

Created a new In Memoriam page to commemorate OCs who died in the two world wars, those who were lost at sea and those who were awarded Britain's highest gallantry awards. There is also a list of the known medals and awards received by OCs. My thanks to Geoff Haskins for his dedicated research to bring the world war lists up to date. My thanks to to the Friends of HMS Conway for the list of OCs lost at sea which is necessarily incomplete but will  be extended from time to time.

Added some review comments on the book here.

Image Archive has another big update this time (lots of new material via the Club AGM & Dinner Dance). There are now 4146 entries - latest additions are in the Accessions folder. The 4,000th image came from Dave Tink - a group of cadets on a ship visit to Hinakura' in Liverpool in 1955. I've added it to the Home Page-  Added new Theme folders showing the formats of the covers of the Cadet magazine from inception to date, the various mdoels of the ship and the 1954 masting of the figurehead at the camp.

Notables and Staff pages: Completed the reformatting of entries and addition of more photos for all Notables entries.

-  Added a new entry for Cdr G W Couch (1911-13), returned as Second, then Chief Officer. Added our 27th Admiral - Rear Admiral H Betty (years not known but he was an Admiral in 1921).

-  Added Commodore William Marshall RNR CB DSO (1886-88) to the list of senior officers (our 17th Commodore). The first man to hold the appointment of Commodore RNR . He was an ADC to the King.

-  Added a new Chairman fro 1923 Mr G D Killey.

-  Added G Mastrieff (years not known) Olympic spring board diver in 1924

David Atkinson's years - 71-74 added to his entry in the list of OCs with personal web sites.   Updated the Bibliography with details of his recently published book "Thinking the Art of Management: Stepping Into Heidegger's Shoes" Added new link for Captain Sir Edward James Headlam RIN Kt, CSI CMG DSO (years not known) giving 153 entries.

Bibliography updated with Very Willing Griffin by David Marks (61-62) who went by the name David Blagden. Also added  link for him in the personal web sites - the 152nd entry, and an entry in Notables.

Small Boats updated with very brief details of an International 18 sailing boat around in the 1950s. More detail appreciated.

A Career At Sea? Thanks to Chris Puxley (61-63) for adding Silloth (Solway Firth) to list of pilots and harbourmasters (now 33 entries). Thanks to Geoff Moss (54-56) for his list of pilots services: Marsa El Brega (Libya), Milford Haven (70-77), Santan (Borneo) and Port of Spain (Trinidad). There are now 56 pilot entries. A scan of some old Cadets magazines from 1921-2 produced

-  extra Shipping Companies to give 652 entries: Australian United Steam Navigation Co, Black & Black SS Co, Bristol Channel Steamers, British East African Lake Service, British Molasses Co, British Rhine Flotilla, Bryon Steamship Co, Burns Steamship Co, Combs Marshall & Co, Commonwealth & Dominion Line, Commonwealth Government Line, Head Line, Hong Kong Canton River Steamers, India Office Shipping, Isle Of Man Coastal Service, Khedivian Mail Line, Lloyds Royal Belge Line, Mansfield & Co (Penang), Nautical Shipping Co, Ritsons, Sasoon & Co (Bombay), Sea of Galilee Ferry Boat Servcie, Stewart & Son, Town Line, Turnbull Master & Co, Uganda Lakes Service , United Fruit Company.

- new Uniformed services,3rd Hussars, 40th Pathans Regt, Canadian Police Force, Mysore Mounted Police, Royal Garrison Artillerary, India, Royal Nigerian Marine, Royal Ulster Constabulary and Shanghai Fire Brigade takes us to 194 entries)

-  Added HMS Excellent (RN Gunnery School) as our 81st maritime training establishment.

Relics added details of two newly found Conway (Nile) models - the Williams model (circa 1930s) along with an excellent photo, and the D model from 1991.

Quick update to announce that a I've added details to the Diary pages of the Scottish Branches Autumn Meeting and Dinner to be held at the Royal Dunkeld Hotel Atholl Street Dunkeld Perthshire PH8 0AR on November 9th

A Career At Sea?: updated again. Shipping Cos now 623 after adding Atlantic Transport Line, Hebridean International Cruises (thanks Captain Brian Larcombe 63-65) and Panama Pacific Line.  Added Paras to the Uniformed Services so now 185 of them.

The Book is finally back from the printers and looks fantastic - they've done a magnificent job. Copies are in the post to those who have ordered. To order click here.

Diary page updated with details of the Friends AGM and lunch on 8th November and the Service of Remembrance in the Conway Chapel on 9th. Bookings required by 29th October.

Image Archive now has 4,041 entries after being updated with new photos in the Pinnace album showing various types of Kriegsmarine pinnace including a surviving sister to the pinnace, New images in albums 1941, 1942, 1946, 1955 and 1971. New Reunion album of 1942 cadets in 1992. Copy of the new cover of the cadet added to the Club page.  As always new entries are all in Accessions. 196x album moved to 1959 (thanks to Mike Rowe - that's him sitting down on the sports field).

Re-organised the Video/Film/Sound section. It now has 34 entries organised into five groups: 1.Clips of/by individual OCs,        2. "Historic" clips of Conway you can play immediately,        3. Modern clips of Conway scenes today you can play immediately,        4. "Historic" clips of Conway you need to download to play (some must be purchased).        5. A list of missing film/sound clips we'd like to find. Added 5 new film clips - modern views of Conway scenes including one of a new floating slip being prepared for the Dock and the 1970 bridge fire.

Notables page: started to reformat the page to better differentiate between the VC, GC/AM and GM holders, and to standardise the layout of the individual Notables entries. Adding lots of photos to these entries.

A Career At Sea?: Added Intelligence Corps to list of uniformed services - now 184 entries. Charente Shipping Company moves us up to 620 shipping companies. Burma Star added to list of medals.

Bibliography updated with the new HMS Conway and Quit ye Like Men by JW Perry (53-56) - the story of his life at sea.

The Book can still be ordered here.

Further "Googling" has turned up a little more info about our pinnace, see Small Boats.

Thanks to Geoffrey Haskins, the Notables page has some new entries:

-  Our sixth George Medal, George Cross / Albert Medal, awarded to Sub Lieutenant Charles Wood Robinson AM RNR (years circa 1885).

- Our 16th Commodore RN - Commodore Henry Douglas King, PC CB CBE DSO VD RNVR, Minister of State, along with a photo.

- Extended / new entries for the artist Lt Frank Henry Mason RNVR RBA RI (1880-82)

- New entry for the first captain of Titanic, OC Captain Herbert J Haddock, CB, RD, RNR

Reformatted the Home Page, moved the dedication to the Introduction page and added a new link to the Conway MN Trust

The Ian Fraser page had a broken link to the Order of Service for his Service of Thanksgiving. Correct link is here.

Image Archive updated to 3,971 entries with with new photos in 1932, 1962, 1959, 1968 (New chums January), and 1972 (1st XV Easter), Crests & Badges, Masts, No 1, Tennis, Tour of the Camp and Tour of the Canteen. The archive has also been featured in the http://www.marineart.com website which lists significant maritime image banks.

Career At Sea now has

-  619 shipping companies after adding Chine Shipping Co., Mungo Cambells, Border Tankers, Kaye Ship.Co.,Radcliffe's of Cardiff, Caltex, Wallem Towage &Salvage, Offshore Supply Assoc, Jamaica Banana Producers Jasmin Marine (Yarmouth), Hansa Line Court Line Ltd. Thanks to Rodney Sambrook Port Fcsl 54-56, Mike Battson, 57-59, John Funnell Foretop 58-60, Brian Pollock Mizzen 62-64, Mike Wild (Main 64-68)

-  183 Uniformed Services with the addition of Howe Battalion, RN Division (served WWI in France - the CO was an OC)

-  extra medals: American Military Order of Dragon, Naval General Service medal, British War Medal and the Victory Medal

The List of OCs with web sites is now at 151 after the addition of 1886-88 Captain Sir Edward James Hedlam Kt, CSI CMG DSO RIM (1887-89) (includes a photo) and Captain Herbert J Haddock, CB, RD, RNR

Bibliogrpahy updated with three new books:

-  History of Sea Service under the Government in India by Captain Sir Edward James Headlam Kt CSIO CMG DSO RIN Publisher and year not known. Headlam was, for a time, Director of the RIN.

-  HMHS Britannic "The Last Titan" by Simon Mills: Describes the actions of Captain Herbert James Haddock CB RD RNR (years not known) master of Britannic at the time to rescuse survivors from the sinking HMS Audacious in October 1912 in the North Sea

-  Water Colour Painting by Lieutenant Frank Henry Mason RNVR, RBA, RI with Fred Taylor.

The Book - the book is now available and can be ordered here.

The Ian Fraser page has been updated with a copy of the Order of Service for his Service of Thanksgiving and a summary of the service itself. Details are here.

Added the North East Branch's Trafalgar Night Dinner onboard HMS Trincomalee at Hartlepool Cleveland on 18th October 2008 to the Diary pages.

Image Archive updated with a new Tennis album and more photos from sometime in the 1960s - post 64 as the Band picture clearly shows the rigging for the mast. Please take a look and let me know if you can pin down the year. Also added  a number of other photos to various years from the 1800s to 1967 and a few theme albums. The full set are in Accessions. We now have 3,957 images. Send me more! I want to get to 4,000. in October. Test

It is with the deepest regret that we annouce the death of Lt Cdr Ian Fraser VC DSO RD RNR (36-38). I've added his image to the home page. A tribute and details of funeral arrangements are here. Also added a TV interview with Ian here.

History I've had a few queries about why the history pages have not been updated for some time. It's because of the history of the Ship book about to be released. The book supercedes the pages but I don't want to publish the new data online and spoil book sales! They will change in due course - I have dozens of new entries to add.

Image Archive now has 3,906 images. The following additions are all in Accessions

• new How We Look Now Images for Redman (53-55) and Tubb (59-61)
• added 8 new images of the carving and masting of the new figurehead. In one you can see a copy Nelson's death mask provided for the carving. The carver's daughter now has it in her home.
• Two new albums for the 1960s on of Breeches Buoy and one a variety of shots but I don't know when each was taken. Please let me know if you recognise anyone.
• The 1932 album has been updated with much better quality images and many new ones from a series of at least 67 photos taken in July by Cull's for a future Prospectus. We have the majority of the 67 but some are still missing - if you think you may have more the numbers are on the back of the photos. PS Who is the steward and what is he doing?

A Career at Sea?: Added an introductory poem by an OC which seems to me to be an appropriate scene setter. Shipping Cos - Added Lowdens, MacVicar, Marshall & Co now 607 entries. Added Tin Miner (Siam & Malaya) to 'Other Fields'. Added our 29th harbourmaster - Bowen, Australia, and 182nd uniformed service - Kent Constabulary. Click here.

Miscellaneous Started two new anorak lists. Email me if you can add any (check your copies of The Cadet)

• Scholarship grouped by type e.g. education, charity... 25 to kick us off. I'm not mad enough to try and list the years they were in existence!
• Cups & Prizes listed in alphabetical order again no start-end dates. 111 listed to start us off. This one will grow and grow.

Notables: My thanks to Geoffrey Haskins for providing lots of corrections to years, awards etc  as part of his research into OCs in the two World Wars. In particular he has discovered another Air Commodore RAF (albeit acting) Theodore Quintus Studd (1909-11) who brings our total of ACs to 3.Updated list of international Sportsmen with Prince Serge Oblensky (1904-06) Rugby, England (thanks Brian McManus)

Staff: Added Mr Cyril Elton Lee (1899-1901) Acting 2nd Lt from 1917 vice Douglas. Also added Mr Joseph Bunnell Second Cook, 1881, Mr Burlitt Instructor /Master At Arms, Mr John Ellick, Ward Room Steward 1881, Mr Charles Forder, Captain's Steward 1881, Mr Thomas Hukkinson English master 1881, Edward Lowe Ship's Steward 1818, Mr Thomas Radcliffe, carpenter 1881, Charlotte Williams Domestic Servant 1881 and updated entry for Tozer. The 1881 Census (Ships In Port in the UK) lists all Conway's staff and cadets.

Image Archive now has 3,879 images:

• Added detailsand/or photos of reunion and branch events for 2008 London Branch BBQ, NW Branch lunch in June and Reunion of 62-65 cadets in Liverpool,
• Added new theme albums for the Conway Display at Kelly College, Outward Bounders and an Accessions album to show all additions since the last update. It includes a photo of Baden Powell's model of Conway 1.
• Added new Year albums for 1903 and 1916
• Added new How We Look Now Images for Neal, Oakes and McRea (all 61-4) and Warren 64. Still looking for more so cough up!
• Added details of several BBC TV film clips of Conway from the 1950s and 1974 that I've not been able to find. Click here

Club Pages: Changed email address of the Hon Sec on the Club pages to clubsec@hmsconway.org

Diary: Updated the Diary pages to remove past events and add NW Branch events for 2009.

A Career at Sea?: Shipping Cos - Added The Salvage Association and Outward Bound (Hong Kong) now 605 entries. Pilots - added Shoreham, now 52. Units - added London Fire Brigade now 181 entries. Click here.

Notables: Bed time reading of the Cadet magazine for 1880 discovered a new holder of the Albert Medal. The AM was later incorporated into the George Cross and given the same status as the GC. See entry for McKinstry. 

Notables: A fifth VC?  The December 1918 edition of The Cadet included the latest list of awards to OCs in the Great War. One of the entries claims that Lt Col E B Boston (Conway 08-10) CMG DSO had been awarded the VC. Later editions made no mention of this and I have been unable to find any reference of an award of the VC to this man. It could have been a mistake but no correction was ever made in The Cadet. If anyone can throw any light on this, please email me

Staff: added a profile of "Greasy" Fozard here.

Diary pages - added new event in London on Sept 14th and 14th.

Image Archive now has 3,607 entries- tidied up the 'home page' index hopefully to make it quicker to find things. Added

- New themed album "How We Look Now" 126 now and then photos of OCs arranged by surname. Send yours in if you're not shown.

- New film clip of the figurehead being carved on 23 June 1938

- Branch events: added more images from 2007 Vancouver,new entries for 2006 London BBQ, Central Canada Branch meeting 2007 September 7th.

- Reunions: new albums for 64-68 cadets in 2004 (113 photos), and 1974 cadets in 2004

Updated the Small Boats page with new info about Garibaldi and Prince Louis.

Image Archive.

-  Please note there may be more than one page to an album e.g. 1962 has 3 pages of photos. When you open an album look in the menu bar immediately above the images. If there is more than one page it will tell you.

-  Added new mega photo albums for 1961 and 1962.

-  Also added a new image to 1922 and the Art Gallery - a new painting of the Ship from 1919 by Kenneth Shoesmith which includes a representation of the steam pinnace (also added to Small Boats).

- Added a new section Audio and Video clips by individual OCs. This includes an oddity: an audio book about the life of a cadet aboard the fictional anti-submarine frigate H.M.S. "Conway". Click here.

- Added a new image to the home page

Conway Club Updated entries for Vice Presidents and Committee members; the last Newsletter was not up to date.

The Ships pages added an entry fro August 1838 to the log of the HMS Conway.

Relics page - added detials of the lifbuoy that used to be kept in the Seamanship Room.

Diary Pages

-  Registration for the NZ reunion extended.

-  New event: 2009 January 16th (Friday) to 18th (Sunday) - Post Christmas Weekend at The Angel and Royal Hotel Grantham Lincs.

Bibliogrpahy updated with three assessions: Conway's Cutters , Nursing Aboard HMS Conway and Kings and Commoners: Studies in British Idealism.

Small Boats entries for Emergency Boat, Joan, Lifeboat and the Skifff updated.

Notables added:

-  Commordore Mare CIE RIN (1905-07) and Commodore Thomas Maxwell Stuart Milne-Henderson CIE RIN (1903-5) to give 15 Commodores RN/RIN/RCN/RNR

-  Captain H.B. Harvey (1894-95) to lits of notable OCs (plus photos of him and his medals)

-  A poem by John Betjeman in memory of Matthew Webb

Career At Sea added our 18th merchant fleet Commodore - Cdr Henry Owen L’Estrange(26-29) DSC RD RNR. Also added three new ephemera jobs: Chief Clan Irving, Captain of Hong Kong Admirals Cup team, and Chairman of the Audit Commission for Malaysia. Added three new aqwards to the Medals & Awards.

Searching For Someone have added (now 149 entries)

- Years not known Mike Barnsley 1947 ish

-  Years not known Jeremy Raynham Kemp (late 50s or early 60s)

-  1878-80 Capt Edward Unwin VC CB CMG,

-  1887-89 Frank Henry Mason RB RI RSMA

-  1894-95 Captain H.B. Harvey

-  1914-16 Cdr Arnold Howard Piggott

-  1926-29 Cdr Henry Owen L’Estrange DSC RD RNR

-  1943-45 Lt Cdr David Davis

-  1947-49 Alan Dunlop

-  1950-52 F.M.W. Bartleet M.N.I

-  1960-63 Captain John Harding

-  1966-70 Brain Sinnott

Added SW Branch's annual Christmas lunch on Friday 28th November 08, and Honourable Company Master Mariners' open day onboard HQS Wellington London on Saturday 12th July 2008 to the Diary pages. Reformatted the entries.

Updated Conway Club page to show Patrons, Committee Members and Branches as per Spring 2008 Newsletter.

Updated Friends page to show Trustees and Honorary  Members as per Spring 2008 Newsletter.

Removed all the old images links from the History pages. they're now all on the Image Archive.

If you've come here from my email please excuse my email typing - rushing to get it out.

Final quick update before my week's holiday:

As an update about publication of the new Conway history was not included in the Spring Newsletter I've added a page with latest news accessible from the home page and here. I'd like to gauge interest so if you think you may buy a copy please use the link or form provided.

Added a very brief report and photos of the London Branch BBQ on June 18th 2008 to the Diary Recent Events page. Also reformatted the Recent Events list to differentiate between Branch Events and Reunions, and added them to the Image Archive.

Added several new photos including two of the Ships' Company in the Ship, but for an unknown year. Can you help?

Updated the Diary pages with several new entries, and added details of Scottish branch visit to RSS Discovery. Note a NE  Branch garden party in a few weeks time.

Reintroduced a much updated section describing The Ships

Added a new section to the Home page for Small Boats describing the motor, pulling and sailing boats. Removed some small boats entries from the Relics page and added a few new relics (things not people).

Added Eric Hewitt's obituary to the Staff pages.

Added a new book to the Bibliography pages: TS Mt Edgcumbe: Training Ship For Homeless & Destitute Boys by Bruce Hunt. When Conway 2 (ex Winchester) was replaced by Nile she was return to the RN who renamed her Mount Edgcumbe and loaned her as a training ship moored at Saltash under the railway bridge. This excellent history contains many photos of the ship and interesting comparisons with Conway's daily routine.

Added lots of images of Conway 2 ( ex Winchester) as Mount Edgcumbe to the Image Archive pages and new images from 2003 and 1963 including a good Ship's company (thanks Tosh Neal). Now 3,263 images!

Added details of two films to the Image Archive pages:

- In 1998 Cambrensis television film company of Cardiff produced a SC4 film on the loss of the Conway. On Saturday 18th October 1998 filming took place on the Swellies. The film is in Welsh and, from time to time, is rebroadcast on other channels. There is no English version and no plans to sell copies.

- In 2002 the Alexander Film archive came to light, the extracts viewable online include short clips of the Ship in the 1920s and aground in 1954 (3 minutes in on film one, and 5.27 minutes in on film 3)

Added Music CD: Masefield's Salt Water Ballads to the For Sale page. The cd has a photo of the ship on the cover.

Added detail about uniforms in 1950 to the Miscellaneous page.

Added Alan R Mill-Irving years (58-61) to the list of OCs with personal web sites on the Searching For Someone? page, removed duplicate entry for George Spearing.

Minor revisions to the Introduction page.

Added Captain Christopher Smith QGM (1953-55) to the Notables section

Following requests,The H.M.S. Conway Image Archive has been updated :

- Cutters & Gigs split in to two albums, and Sailing revised to include sailors as well as boats.

- Motor Boats split into separate albums for the Pinnace, No 1, No 2 and the Juice Barge (water boat)

- New albums grouping all QB photos, and Cadet Captains photos.

- New albums for Athletics, Band, Boxing, Breeches Buoy, Cricket, Entrance Exams, Gymnastics, Mountaineering, all Prospectuses,1944 Prospectus (thanks Geoff Topp), 1954 Prospectus, Rugby, Sailing, Ships Company, Skiff, Royal Visits and Plas Newydd.

- New photos in the relics album of the "Caernarvon" Conway anchor being recovered in 1986.

- New photos of Matthew Webb Channel swimmer in Notables album.

- New movie (web cam) of Conway anchor outside Caernarvon Maritime Museum and links to three new film clips.

- 78 new photos added to 1962 and 1963 (thanks Tosh Neal)

I've also added guidance about using the album viewer software.

Bibliography updated with nine new books, also a selection of covers in the Image Archive.

Updated A Career At Sea? list of uniformed services with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, now 180 entries. Added AG Robertson as Commodore of Mogul Line - 17 in total.

Added Alan R Mill-Irving to the list of OCs with personal web sites on the Searching For Someone? page. Now 139 entries.

Added Sam Foulkes (42-49) to Staff page.

Removed old Diary dates from the Diary.

New photo on the Home Page of Plas Newydd form the Strait in 1955.

Added details of 14 Conway film and video clips to the Image Archive.

Included lots of OCs' book covers in the Image Archive (Bibliography) and linked to them from the main Bibliography page. Now 3,068 photos.

Updated Bibliography section with new books in the Assessions lIst including two by J. G. (Geoffrey) Messervy-Norman, and Iain Duncan Smith's (68-72) first novel Made a number of revisions to the list of books (missing publishers, ISBN numbers etc.) more details on R Hutson's book The Nine Lives of Ding Dong Bell, and his third book Voyages - A Celebration of Early European Seamanship.

Added new entries to the pesonal sites for 1899-1901 Lt Charle Bonner VC, 1949-51 Sandy Kinghor, 1961-63 David Lambert and Years not kown R F Youde. Full list is in Searching For Someone? There are now 134 entries.

Corrected the entry for Captain George Hunt DSO DSC RAN (1930-32) in Notables.

The H.M.S. Conway Image Archive has been added to the site and I will now gradually remove all the original thumbnails. This archive contains over 3,000 photographs, drawings, paintings, documents and moving images of and about Conway. The majority of entries are organised in albums by year but there are also a number of themed collections e.g. Gigs & Cutters, and Members of Staff. I have also included albums proving Tours of most Conway locations. At the moment these are just a series of photos but in due course they will be revised as more organised tours e.g. I will add markers to the Ship’s deck plans to show the position from which individual images were taken. Entries are grouped in albums by:

- Conway Year including a series of images taken since 1974. Documents like Prospectuses and Programmes, and special events like the Opening of the New Block are placed in separate year albums.

- Theme e.g. Gigs & Cutters, and Members of Staff. - Tours of most Conway locations. At the moment these are just a series of photos but in due course they will be revised as more organised tours.

- The 1953 Loss of the Ship is covered in a number of albums aligned with the description in the history of the Ship being published this summer.

- Ships, there is an album for each of the three vessels and an extra one for the second Conway (ex Winchester) in her post Conway years as Mount Edgcumbe.

- Moving images are either embedded in the page or a link is provided

For Sale: new painting of Conway at sea as Nile by Spurling. It was painted for the cover of the Blue Peter nautical magazine published during the 1920s and 30s.

Notification has been received from the NW Branch that their bimonthly lunches previously held at the 'Liner' Hotel Lime street will be moved to the 'Liverpool Marina' Coburg Wharf Liverpool L3 4BP. The first lunch at the new venue will be Wednesday 21st May. Price £15.50.Reason for the change is a sudden dramatic rise in the cost of the Liner lunches and deteriorating standard of the meals. Diary

Updates to A Career At Sea? Thanks to Capt J Dickenson(46-48), Nigel Haydn-Evans (54/5) , Peter Lawrence (59-61) Mike Rowe (57/60), Mike Robinson (49-51)and others we now have:

- Irish Sea Ferry Company, James Poole & Co, Joseph Steel & Co (New York), Klondyke Shipping, Lam Hai Steamship Co, Louis Davies & Co, McVicar Marshall & Co, Nielsen Bulk Carriers, Sandbach Tinne & Co, Scottish Office Fishery Protection Fleet, Squarey & Kendall, Ugland Management, Union Shipping Group, W T Dixon & Sons, Yeman Gulf Line, Yacht Captain taking us to 603 shipping companies.

- Dubai, Gravesend Channel Pilot, Holyhead and Teignmouth taking us to 51 pilot service.

- 179 uniformed services by adding 5th Battle Sq, Home Fleet, 15th Minesweeping Flotilla, Bolton Police Force, Derbyshire Constabulary, Imperial Indian Army, RNZ Army, SA Air Force

- RNVR Sail Training Trust added to list of maritime training organisations, now 79.

- Commodores of Nielsen Bulk Carriers and Unicorn Fleet

Added reminder about the Club's AGM and Dinner Dance to the Home Page.

The NW, East Midlands and Scottish branches have sent details of their forthcoming events. Details are on all on the Diary page.

Added a 28th Harbourmaster to the list in a A Career At Sea? Thanks to Colin (Charlie) Parker (71-74) who was Harbourmaster in Aberdeen until a few years ago; he is now CEO of the port. The list of Harbourmasters and Pilot Servcies is not bad but I'm sure there are more. Let me know if you can add to the list - alfie@hmsconway.org

Updated the entry about the gigs and the pinnace in the Relics page and inclued photos of sister pinnaces in German world war 2 capital ships.

Added our 134th OC with some form of personal site:  Lieutenant Arthur Glynne Lewis to the list in the Searching For Someone? page.

Updated the For Sale page with details of new books available thorugh the Club. They are all by Canon Bob Evans of Mersey Missions To Seamen who writes mainly on nautical matters around the Mersey.

Updated details of overseas payments for the 2009 150th Anniversary Reunion available here. See link under 'Programme'.

Now 587 shipping companies in A Career At Sea? thanks to Ernie Fairley (47-48) for Gulf East Shipping and China Ocean Shipping (HK) Ltd. With your help can we get to 600?