Added latest details of the 2009 150th Centenary Celebrations including hotel booking arrangements.

Updated the list of reunions with the 2002 Reunion of Easter 1962 QBs Lots of new entries added to the list of OCs with their Personal Web Sites. There are 127 entries now, listed by years and then alphabetically.Added two interesting entries to the Notables section for Commander John L. Rigge RN OBE (1932-33) and Terence Fisher (Approx 1916-8) Hammer Horror Films' lead director. Revised the Bibliography so that all books written by OCs or members of staff are together. They include books with Conway content, fiction and technical books. There is a separate section for books with Conway content but not written by OCs. Added a number of new works by OCs to the Accessions section of the Bibliography pages Some interesting stuff.

Added TS Dufferin (India's equivalent to Conway), , RCN Naval Operations School and RCN Sea Training Staff to list of training establishments in a Career At Sea? An OC was Dufferin's Captain Superintendent during WWII. Also added new Shipping Co Commodore.

Updated A Career At Sea with International Maritime Transport our 524th Shipping Co., and added New Zealand Fire Service and Zambian Police Force to Uniformed Services giving 149 entries. Added Companion The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) to the List of Medals

Updated the Staff section with a new photo of Conway's third Captain Superintendent, Capt Mowll.

I am building a page of links to recent OC events. There are three so far, the latest a link to the page for the 2002 reunion of Easter 1962 QBs - actually I've mislaid this link so if you know it please email me!.Added Abram Lyle & Sons, British Antarctic Survey, Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd and Henry F Watt to the list of shipping companies giving 523 in total. Added Royal Hong Kong Police (1968-1997) and Hong Kong Police (from 1997) to the list of uniformed services to give 147 in total. A Career At Sea?

Added a new section in Bibliography on Joseph Conrad and the references to OCs/Conway in many of his books e.g. the lead characters in Lord Jim and The Secret Sharer are OCs. Also added a new book "Isle of Man; Then and Now - A Photographic Journey" by Andrew Douglas (OC) and new books by Con Lloyd (56-58) "in Command' and "Anchors & Anchorwork".

Dates have been set for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations at Liverpool in 2009. Click here for details.

The editor of ther Club Newsletter, Alan Burns (48-50) ever, and rightly, a stickler for accuracy, challenged my dates for the Conway song. I'm working from very poor scans of the Cadet magazines; some are awful and the three I relied on here are amongst the worst. A bit more searching though adjacent pages and I found more legible dates. He was quite right; the 'third' song was introduced in December 1916. Details were published in the Club Newsletter No. 42, Autumn 2001 pages 28-30. Conway Songs.

Added the first Chief Officer, a Mr Littler, to the list of Chief Officers.

Added a few more details abot the large painting of the Ship above the entrance to the Mess Deck in the New Block: Relics.

Updated the entry for Lt Henry Warington Smyth Baden-Powell RNR KC Admiralty Court (1861- 1864, cadet number 187), founder of the Sea Scourts Notables.

Added Bowater Steamship Company, Department of Energy Mines & Resources, Canada, George Horsley & Co (West Hartlepool), Jordain Shipping and T & W Smith (Newcastle) to give 519 shipping companies. Added Canadian Atlantic Pilotage Authority to give 42. Added Ceylon Planters Regt, King Edward’s Horse and the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) to give 146 uniformed services. Extended the list of maritime training organisations in which OCs have served to include Canadian Coast Guard College, Georgian College, Nova Scotia Nautical Institute, Survival Systems Training Ltd and the National Nautical School, Portishead where an OC was once Captain Superintendent. A Career At Sea?

For years I knew that the Conway Song we all know was not the original one. I had words for an earlier song but no music. A long search has finally come up with three songs! The first, extant in 1898 was also titled "A Conway Carol". I've found the missing music for the second song although this seemed not to be sung by 1917. The third song, 'our song' was introduced in December 1918. Conway Songs

Updated List of Club Committee Members

More Shipping Co Commodores.

More Medals & Awards.

Added more Uniformed Services - 143 in total.

Updated the list of Padres

Revised the list of Chief Officers / First Lieutenants / Director of Nautical Studies

Updated Senior Officers with our 24th and 25th Admirals (Everett and Niblett), 4th and 5th Commodores (Lane and Ruthven) and 2nd and 3rd Generals (Barber and Nicholson )

Separated out the list of 14 Harbourmasters and 41 Pilot Services from the list of Shipping Companies . Thanks to Dave Collick(Fxl 55-57) for Michalinos and Bohannen Line, Andrew Tinsley (54-56) for General Maritime S.A. (Casablanca) now 516.

Added RNC Dartmouth(at one time there were 4 OCs serving on staff together), Port Jackson cadet ship (Master) and Russell Coates Nautical School, Branscombe, Dorest (Captain Superintendnet) to Maritime training centres.

Fixed broken links to personal sites and added new personal sites for (now 52):

1866-67 Kyrle Bellew

1911-13 Rear Admiral Douglas Henry Everett RN CB CBE MBE DSO (search under RN and "E")

1960-61 Rick Foster

1963-67 Alec McNab

1964-67 Paul Warren

1964-68 Nick Watkins 1

1964-68 Nick Watkins 2

1971-74 Paul Nicholas 1

1971 -74 Paul Nicholas 2

1971-74 Paul Nicholas 3!

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Added new OCs with private web sites / significant mentions in web sites. 47 now. Let me know of any I've missed Added a new "Returning Lost Boys" page to the Home Page. This is a tie in with the campaign to track down lost OCs being run in association with Geraldine McCaughren's Peter Pan In Scarlet; her wonderful sequel to Peter Pan.Moved details of recent reunions to the renamed "Diary & Recent Events" page. Send me details of any other events and I'll add them. Added T.R. Sanderson to the Staff list. He taught Spanish 1952-3 (at least).Thanks to Messrs Budd (71-3), Burkey (62-64), Haskins (40-43), Kirkham (54-55), MacVicker 68/71, Moody (04-06), O'Donnell 66/68, Walker (62-64) and Williams 53-5 lines are now up to 548. New Shipping Co Commodores - RML 51 to 53, BISN 54-5 and British Tankers 61/2 Several new uniformed services, now at 110. Chinese Maritime Customs was the magical 100th! Several new Maritime training establishments - now 57.

Added Member of the Institute of Fire Engineers.

OCs on web sites Returning Lost BoysDiary & Recent EventsStaff

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Added photo of Paul Kingsford in 1990 to Staff photos Initial information about 2009, the organisers want your views.

Shipping companies now 480 and new training centre in Durban.

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All new Staff pages.

Shipping companies on a roll - 467 now. Aiming for 500. We need your help!

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New images in Vancouver Day 3, new page for Alaskan Cruise.Added our 22nd and 23rd Admirals

Added extra shipping companies (now 442) and services (now 90)and a couple more shipping company commodores

Vancouver Reunion Notables

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New images in Vancouver Day 3.Added our 20th and 21st Admirals - Vice Admiral Brownfield and Admiral Murray. New notable OC Lt Cdr B M Skinner (1930-32), Captain of HMS Amethyst of Yangtse Incident fame

Added extra shipping companies (now 430) and services (now 86) plus 4 extra training ships and 2 new Olympians

Vancouver DinnerNotables

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Added review and photos of the London BBQ

New President of the Cruising Club.Minor update to Friends 'Events'

Added notes and photos for the Vancouver reunion, and details of the 2008 Christchurch NZ reunion in 2008.

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Two new sets of cufflinks for sale from the Club Shop.Lots of change for the Cruising Association including diary datesAdded Bullard King, Carmichaels, Cowasjee Line (Karachi),
F Laeisz (Hamburg), John Steward, British Rail Hovercraft Ltd (Seaspeed), Hovertravel Ltd, RANR, RNR, RNVR, Royal Marines, Scottish Fisheries Protection and Tung Group to lines - 388 now. Added the Australian Army, The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, Royal Army of Oman, Royal New Zealand Armoured Regiment (New Zealand Scottish), Liverpool Police,Parachute Regiment, West Yorks Regt, South African Light Horse to the list of Services & Units - 68 in total now. Also several more medals added and listing revised.

Thanks to Peter Booker, Lt Col David Beveridge, Alan Burns and James Hume for most of the extras.

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Updated the Diary page with new dates and events.Added book "The Queens & I" by Commodore G Marr (22-24)Lots of new high res photos of the Chapel windows on the Friends' pages. Thanks to John McLeod (65-67) for taking them.

Added new section listing the Services & Units in which OCs have served.

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