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Updates in 2018 (most recent at the top)

2018 Dec 18th
Diary Contacts
Removed past events. Events for 2019 wil be added once thery are known.

2018 Dec 18th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Tidey (54-56)

2018 Dec 13th
Sea & Shore
Added a new 25 page feature on OCs &The Mesopotamina Inland Water Transport in WWI and WWII.


2018 Dec 11th
The Conway Club Site
Added Club Rules to the Members pages

2018 Dec 8th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Barry (WWI)

2018 Dec 2nd
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Crick and Mudford

2018 Nov 29th
Home Page
Added details of the 2019 AGM and dinner to the home page and updated the Club site



2018 Nov 27th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Alban, Anderson, Ashton, Back, Baker, Banton, Barker, Becket, Bell, Cadman, Chapman, Clutterbuck, Colquohuon, Craven-Phillips, Curry, Davis, Dunning, Elliott, Ellis, Everingham, Foukes, Ox, Granger, Gray, Halle, Hawes, Hay, Hayward, Hill x2, Learmont, MacCaulay, MacGregor, Major x2, May, Merriman, Moore, Morton, Murray, Murrell,Nash, Saddingtion, Salloway,  Spill, Stewart, Taylor, Thornycroft x2, Walker, White, Wichman, Woods, Woodward.

2018 Nov 17th
Sea & Shore
Added:
-  53rd Harbour Master: Dun Laoghaire (Sheil), Hobart, Tasmania (Woods).

-  61st Police Force: River Thames (Thornycroft).
-  110th Nautical Training Establishments: HMIS Bahadur Boys Training Ship (Baker), RN Artificers Trg Centre, Rosyth (Chapman).


2018 Nov 9th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for the Robinson brothers and Swift

2018 Nov 7th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Chodzko (stage name Michael Anthony), Brown, Crick, Frankcom, Fraser, IDS, Warwick and Webb

Image Archive
Now has 13,551 entries with above obituaries

Notables
Added our 35th Commodore RN - Frankcom (18-20)

2018 Nov 2nd
Image Archive
Added 314 new photos, paintings and documents so the archive now has 13,541 entries. All shown in the Accessions album - click here.

Corrected albums for 1938 July Refit and December Dry Docking.

New albums for 1956 Shipbreakinbg Docs, Display @ Menai Heritage Centre, Display @ PN, Display @ Conway Centre, Art - Laing, Art - Andrews, 2007 Vancouver, 2007 London BBQ, and 2018 London BBQ,

Keep them coming to alfie@hmsconway.org


2018 Nov 1st
Home Page
Added details of SW Branch Event on 23rd Nov and new photo


2018 Oct 20th
Image Archive
Added report and attendees list for the 1923 dinner in London, Cartoon of the event already online

2018 Oct 15th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Hunter and  Masefield

Sea & Shore
Added our 69th Pilot Service - thanks Hunter

2018 Oct 10th
Shipping Companies
Now 1042 entries thanks to
-  Gibson (1864-66) George Gibson & Co (family shipping co)
-  Gibson (1890-92) for the County Line
-  Gibson (08-10) for Lane & Son


2018 Sep 20th
The Cadets' List
Corrected entry for Munsch (was Monsch) and added links/info.


2018 Sep 20th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Cable, Calderley and Carson


2018 Sep 14th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Champion, Cooper, Copeland and Cuthbert


2018 Aug 24th
Bibliography
Added Images of Merseyside, Captain of the Carpathia, Seafaring - The Full Story and Come on the Tigers.

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Bent, Masefield and Unwin.

2018 Aug 23rd
Image Archive
Added our 13,226th entry; a newsreel film from 1940 of boys at Aberdovey Sea Scholl where Comway cadets spent time.

Small Boats
Corrected the entry for Joan

2018 Aug 22nd
A Proud Tradition Continues
Updated the entry for the Barnes Cup. We are still searching for it

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Burn, Deer, Dunn, Genochio

2018 Aug 20th
Sea & Shore
Added a new article OCs & The Holy Land thanks to David Brown

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Brown, Haskins and Miller


2018 Aug 16th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for 13 Gibsons (1800's to 1940's) and Giles

Sea & Shore
-  OCs & Calcutta - Minor updates to Kendal's entry and new details for 1940-41 from James Hume
-  OCs & Jutland added details of Giles's participation in the flagship Iron Duke
-  OCs & Gallipoli added details of Giles's participation in the flagship Inflexible
-  Commodore RN/RNR added our 34th entry for Giles


2018 Aug 15th
Home Page
Added link to the OCs' chat group on Facebook


2018 Aug 13th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Lambert, Waddell, Westbeech, Willams DP, Winstanley and Wycherly

2018 Aug 8th
Conway Club Web SIte
Added the Jul 2018 The Cadet to the members only pages. Password is on page 30 of the printed copy sent to members - look under Web Site & Image Archive.


2018 Aug 1st
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Bennett, Edwards, Elliott, Hasan, Hilton, Samuel, Sayer, Scrivens, Seymour, Shaw, Sibson, Smith, Sigley, Slack, Spivery, St George, Stephenson, Stewart, Stickland, Stone and Swan.

2018 Jul 31st
Staff - Headmasters
Added an all new entry for TWEB Browne includsng a photo of his medals from WWI and WWII. Thanks to David Coulthard for spotting this information temporarily online.

Diary
New events for Queensland on Sept 9th and Vancouver Island on Aug 23rd.

Home Page
Updated with AGM weekend details.

Image Archive
Added new album for 1863. Now 13,224 images online.

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Paige, Maughan and Shepley.

Lost At Sea
Published Issue 97 with a much updated entry for  Paige, lost in the Submarine Sterlet  in WWII

2018 Jul 22nd
Diary
All new Diary added.

2018 Jun 20th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for new entries for Willcock (62-64

Home Page
Added details of a proposed 61-63 Reunion and a painting of the wreck by Kevin Andrews


2018 May 15th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Ali

2018 May 2nd
History - 1st Ship
Added award of the China Medal to her crew of 143 men in 1842.

2018 Apr 3rd
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for new entries for Vice Admiral Pizey (12-15)

The Image Archive
-  Now 13,222 images.
-  Added new Documents album 1970 Britannia Brdge Fire
-  Revised art Galley Ellis


2018 Apr 1st
Still At Sea
Added C J Todd (71-73) to the list so we now know of 23 OCs still serving.

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for new entries for two Todds (60s and 70s)

2018 Mar 22nd
OCs & The Indian Navies
Now version 8 after adding details of Admirtal C Pizey CB DSO (12-15) who was C-in-C 1951 to 1955.

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Woodward.

2018 Mar 21st
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Dickie

The Image Archive
-  Now 13,207 images after adding 1958 Extra XV, 1971/2 Bantams XV and MT's 1972 Gig Cup winnners.
-  New theme albums for Rugby - Other XVs (7), Rugby - Pangbourne Matches (3) and Rugby - Worcester Matches (37).

2018 Mar 15th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Russell

Friends Web Site
Updated the page for the Plas Newydd window with better photos


2018 Mar 14th
The Image Archive
- Now 13,202 images
- Added a new documents album "Standing Orders"
- Added a new documents album "Ship 1953 Rigging Plans"
- Added 1967 Breeeches Buoy Rocket, 1958 Summer Mizzentop Pennant and 1969 Athletics team

2018 Mar 13th
The Image Archive
-  Now 13,193 images.
-  Added new album for 1952 Prize List (thanks Coupland)


2018 Mar 3rd
The Image Archive
-  Now 13,181 images.
-  Added 2 new Art albums for Art - Donnison (The Ship @Bangor) and Art - Conway Crag showing where it was.
-  Added new album for Today - Snowdon Group showing places they used as bunkhouses.


2018 Mar 2nd
OCs & Snowdonia
Added lots of new photos to the text.


2018 Feb 28th
Conway Club Web SIte
Added the Jan 2018 The Cadet to the members only pages. Password is on page 31 of the printed copy sent to members - look under Web Site & Image Archive.


2018 Feb 21st
The Image Archive
-  Now 13,170 images.
-  Added 13 new Art images with new albums for Art - Hillhouse and Art - Russell Flint (OC) The Ship.
-  Separated the Today - Chapel @ Birkenhead album into a number of different albums e.g. Outside, Inside Panoramas, Silver, Displays...,
-  Added new album for Messware.


2018 Feb 14th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Antrobus, Baines, Bell, Biggs, Blackburne, Blamey, Budd, Clay, Coffman, Fanaken, FitzGerald,  Forber, Foster, Giitins, Gyton, Hare, Igoe, Laverick,  Lawrence, Mageean, Marks, Martin, McIllwraith, Menzies, Morris, Musters, Olive, Parker, Preston, Pritchard, Roberts, Thurgood, Ward (2), Warner, Wilkinson,

Sea Career
Now 1040 entries after adding Headline Shipping (thanks Mageean) and Victoria Deprt of Fisheries (thanks Preston) and Tidex Marine (thanks Fanaken)

Staff - Padres
Added obituary for Roy Chalkley

2018 Feb 12th
Conway Club Web SIte
I’ve completely rebuilt the club website using new software (Wordpress) although the bulk of the content is still broadly the same. A lot of work but I hope you think it looks much better, particularly the proper drop down menus. It has a Conway family format so the Friends and Club sites look similar. My next job is to revamp the main site but that is going to be many many weeks of work.

The new site includes a full online shop so you can now buy from anywhere in the world using bank transfer or any card and any currency. There are lots of new things on sale and you can also buy your Teaser Club and Conway Club subscriptions online. I’ve added new security software so back issues if all the (new) The Cadet magazines are now online. The password is in the new issue you should receive any day now.


2018 Feb 10th
The Image Archive
-  Added a new album for Gigs - Top Crews


2018 Feb 8th
The Image Archive
-  Now 13,128 entries after adding 36 new images and documents.
 
-  Added new albums for Art - Out (OC) and  Branches 2015 HCMM HQS Wellington Luncheon.

- All in Accessionsalbum for speedy viewing but also updated albums for 1959, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1970 1973, 1974 Closure articles, Art- Snow, Branches 2015 Cutty Sark, Breeches Buoy, Chapel - Birkenhead, Cricket 2nd XI, How We Look Today, QBs, Ship @ PN and Rugby 1st and  3rd XVs.


2018 Jan 29th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Clutterbuck, Craven-Phillips (x2), Fraser, Kemp, Linsley, Robinson, Tink

2018 Jan 29th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Fforde and Fox

2018 Jan 29th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Dahl (Dall), Davidson, Donaldson, Dowden, Dudley

2018 Jan 24th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Ashton, Barradel, Bill, Boaler, Bonney, Bostock, Butterfield, Chadwick, Dearnley, Dias, Edwards,  Fairweather, Francis, Greenfield, Gurnell, Hale, Harding, Homer, Hornby, Hoersburgh, Hughers, Hunnisett, Kearsey, King, MacKenzie, McCaughren, McManus, McMillan, Marette, Newman, Norman, Parry, Smith (2), Stephens, Turner, Vidian-Jones, Warren, Windsor, Wooler

Shipping Companies
Now 1037 entries thanks to
-  Kearsey the US Bedford Institute of Oceongraphy

-  Horsburgh (both father and son!) - Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Food (England) and Scottish Fishery Protection Agency (both Marine Supt)

Lost At Sea
Added the 297th entry, for Commodore the Rt.Hon. Henry Douglas King (1891-93)

OCs & The RIN
Added details of Vidian-Jones's wartime service


2018 Jan 23rd
Home Page
Added painting by J Anton  "HMS Conway's End 1953"  and its probable source 


The Image Archive
Added new album for Art Anton


2018 Jan 16th
The Image Archive
-  Added 12 new images and documents so archive now has 13,093 entries
-  All in Accessions album for speedy viewing but also updated albums for 1897, 1904 and 1961


2018 Jan 18th
OCs In Calcutta & The River Hooghly
Added information about "WG" Gibson DSO MC OBE (02-04) and his time in the city. Now at version 10.

2018 Jan 17th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Maginley and Smith.

The Image Archive
Added new link in Branches to cover the presentation by two OCs at the 2015 Canadian Coastguard College Annual Awards

2018 Jan 16th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Gibson - DSO and MC

The Image Archive
-  Added 101 new images and documents so archive now has 13,081 entries
-  All in Accessions album for speedy viewing but also updated albums for 1897, 1898, 1904, 1909, 1914, 1926, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1953, 1953 Loss 14, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1964 to 1971, 1974 and How We Look Today
-  New album 1898 Navy & Army Illustrated magazine article about Conway
-  New albums for the Summer Play programmes in 1955 and 1956
-  New albums in the Art Gallery for Baden-Powell (OC), Hasta and Wright
-  New album in the Art Gallery for Conway III in commission as HMS Nile
New album showing Decks pre 1938 conversion
-  Added new Year album for 1953 Coronation Review


2018 Jan 15th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Davis, Francis, Pickthorne

2018 Jan 13th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Bill Fenton (65-68) and Professor Graham Gibbs (65-68)

2018 Jan 8th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Guirey, McLeod, Mervik, Metcalfe and Warwicks (2)


2018 Jan 7th
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Wallace, Walshaw, Ward,watts, White, Williams (2),  Wills, Wood


2018 Jan 2nd
Small Boats
Updated Gig entries and added links to Image Archive albums for each boat.


2018 Jan 2nd
The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Colin Coles, Howie


2018 Jan 1st
Staff - Crew
Added very sparse information about Mr Wood.

OCs & The Falklands
Added details of Colin Elms's service as Chief Officer in Avalonia Star

The Cadets' List
Added links/info for Bowering, Elms, Evans, Thomas (de Meaune).

Update History
Moved all updates for 2017 to the Updates In Previous Years list above.



 
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