Diary       Removed past events

Teaser Club

On the Home Page and the Club Welcome pages I have added details of how to join and who to pay - particulalry for those outside the UK

A Career At Sea?

Notable OCs

In Memoriam

A Career At Sea?

Added Torres Strait PIlot to the list giving us 58 pilots. Thanks to Captain George Homes (53-56)

Added to Shipping Companies: Andrew Youle & Co, Bigland Brown & Co, Colonial Oil,Don Line, Donaldson, Rose & Co (Aberdeen), IF Co, John Joyce & Co, McIlwreath & McEachan, River Plate Steamers,  Union Co, now 817 entries.

Added Grants Guns (South Africa) to the list of armed forces, now 190.

Added Jamaican Constbulary making 49 emergency/uniformed services

Bibliography

Added new books by Desmond Fforde and Geoff Woodland - the latter is on the home page

Addded the cover for The Canadian Coastguard 1962-2002 - Auxilio Semper by Charles D. Maginley (45-47)

Updated the entry for John Perry's "Quit Ye Like Men" to correct the publisher's email adress which should be memoirclub@email.msn.com

OCs' "Personal" Web Sites

Added 60-62 Geoff Woodland giving 171 entries.

Image Archive

This is the largest update of images I've ever done - 762 new entres taking us to 7,256 images in the archive. There are already a hundred or so new ones waiting! It has taken me a huge amount of time to get them ready and loaded. It normally takes about 5 minutes per image, this lot have taken much more than that becuse I've had to create so many new indexes and albums. That explains why some of you have waited so long to see your images loaded, and why I've been silent on the chat group (link of the day can resume!)

As previously, I can only apologise for the poor quality of some images but I still work on the principle that a poor image is better than  no image.

New Theme Albums:
-  Coaling
-  Concerts & Plays
-  Model Making
-  Tour of the Tents
-  Uniforms - No 1 Dress
-  Uniforms - Sports Kits
-  Uniforms - Working Rig

Updated Theme Albums:
One or more new images added to each of:
-  Athletics,
-  Boxing, 
-  Crests, Cricket, Cutters,
-  Figurehead, Flying,
-  Gigs, Gold medal winners,
-  Hockley,
-  Juice Barge,
-  Mountains,
-  No 1, No 2,
-  Pinnace,
-  QBs,
-  Relics, Royal visits, Rugby 1st XV, 2nd XV, 3rd XV, 4th XV, Bantams XV Colts XV, Rugby Misc,
-  Sailing, SCCs, Ships company, Ships models, Silver, Staff,
-  Tour of the:   camp (inside),  camp (outside),   dock,   kelvin block,  new block (inside),  new block (outside),  Rock Ferry grounds,   ship (decks),   ship (hull and masts), strait (to Bangor), strait (at PN),

People & Places "Today" Albums:
-  New entries for Club Dinners for 1927, 1928, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1954 and 1963
-  Updated 150th reunion 59 term dinner
-  Updated How We Look Today with two new OCs
-  Updated Reunion of 50-51 cadets in 1991 @ Mold

New Art Gallery Albums
-  "ANR"
-  Bottomley
-  Daniel
-  Frater
-  Hook
-  Langton
-  Longbottom
-  Rodmell
-  "TMG"

Updated Art Gallery Albums
One or more new images added to each of:
-  Andrew. Cadet B. J. B. Andrew also signed his work as "BJBA" and "Bevis Andrew"
-  Barnes (includes a self portrait)
-  Ellis
-  Shoesmith
-  Thorpe
-  Williams
-  Unknown Artists - Cartoons
-  Unknown Artits - Drawings

Document Albums
I've got hundreds of documents waiting to be scanned so I've completely revamped this section; it is now better structured and ready for a major expansion. There is an index page listing the types of document that can be viewed and then individual pages for each index entry. Lots of new stuff here. The index currently includes:
-  Advertisements
-  Book covers
-  Cadet magazine covers
-  Conway songs
-  Exams - entrance (New)
-  Exams - passing out (New)
-  Fees
-  Lesson cards
-  Newspaper and magazine articles (updated)
-  Passing out certificates
-  Prize lists (New)
-  Prospectuses (updated with 1930's)
-  Reunion programmes
-  Plans of buildings, camp, moorings, Ship decks, Ship hull, sports grounds
-  Rules & regulations (New)
-  Slop chest
-  Stationery (New)
-  Sports day programmes (New)
-  Term calendars (New, various entries for 1960 to 71)
-  Terminal reports
-  Watch bills (New)
-  What Company Shall I Join Issue 2 (Please email me if you have Issue 1 or 3)

New Year Albums
-  1949 Opening of Shore Establishment 21st Oct

Updated Year Albums
One or more new images added to each of:
-  1800s (the next update will split out the 1800s into indivudal years)
-  1926, 27, 28, 29
-  1930, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39
-  1939-45 Plas Dinam now includes Gordonstoun
-  1940, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49
-  1950, 51, 52, 53,  54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
-  1963, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69

Narrow Boat Emily continues to take up a lot of my time and I am in the process of adding over 650 new images which is taking an inordinate amount of time but which I think you will enjoy once I get them all published. In the meantime I have made the following updates:

Diary added a number of new events for the coming months and for 2011. In particular:

- UK Scottish Branch has a dinner on 7th November at Aberfeldy.

- The Friends of HMS Conway have their AGM on 13th November and thier annual Remembrance Service on the 14th.

- UK South West Branch has a luncheon and tour of the Devonport RN dockyard on 26th November.

Sorry about the lack of updates for the last few months -we've been rather busy on our narrowboat. This is a quick update to say I've deleted all the old Diary entries and have updated the home page to remind youn that the Club's annual dinner dance and AGM is looming. Nothing will ever compare to last year's 150th celebrations but this year marks a special centenary, 100 years since the founding of the Club.

Bibliography

Added a new autobiography by Tony Matthews (51-53)

The History of HMS Conway is now available as an eBook click here.

Club Pages

Completely redesigned, click here

Friends pages

Updated them so that the Lost at Sea page also appears as a current project. Also added the Roll of Honour Project to the list of completed activities.

Shop Added details of John Masefield's first recording now available for sale.

Attention South African OCs! An OW is trying to set up get togethers in Gauteng in association with Old Bothas, OWs and OPs so that old training ship associations can continue in South Africa. Go to the News page and look under South Africa.

A Career ar Sea has been a bit quiet of late. The pages now list 807 shipping companies, 57 pilot services, 37 harbourmasters, 84 nautical training organisations, 189 armed forces units, 48 emergency/uniformed services and 136 civilian jobs. Please email me if your details are not covered.

Replaced the Friends of HMS Conway pages with a completely new structure and lots of new content. In due course other sections of the site will be similarly restructured.

Conway Ringtone: To entice you to their new pages you can download a mobile phone ringtone of the Conway Song from their Welcome Page. It works fine on my iPhone and only took seconds to transfer from the web page to my phone - if you have problems that's to do with your phone not my ringtone!

2010 February 28th