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UPDATES IN 2010
2011 Dec 15th
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A Career At Sea
- Added: Barge Express
(Darwin), IMT Shipping (Hamburg), Karlander New Guinea Line, Offshore
Marine Shippng (Port Hedland WA), Princess Cruise Line (West
Australia) and United Enterprises (Singapore). Now 835 entries
thanks to Brian Beverdge (FXL 59-61) and Roger Stuart (63-66)
- Added Jeddah to the list of Pilots. Now 61 entries thanks to David G Williams (49-51)
- Added 'Shipping Company Director' to the list of 'Job Titles' now 139,
and 'Senior Vice President & Director of Cunard Line Ltd' both
courtesy of John Hnabridge (55-57)
- Added 'Sworn Measurer & Weigher to the Home Ward Freight
Conference, Kobe, Japan, to the list of unusual appointments - Brown,
Son & Ferguson, Ltd (1946) thanks to Cap W G Lalor OBE
(years not known)
Bibliography
Added:
- Wire Spicing by Dr R Scott Skirving (Years not known)
- Sword For Hire By Douglas V Duff (14-16) - his autobiograhy
- A Handbook of Weather, Currents & Ice For Seamen By Capt L A Brooke Smith (1893-95)
- Wireless & Weather, An Aid To Navigation by Capt L A Brooke Smith (1893-95)
- I Captained The Big Ships by Commodore Robert G Thelwall (11-12)
- Without Incident by G. Drake (22-24)
- Raw Courage - The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of Four RAF Brothers in Arms by Simon Muggleton & Norman Franks
Club's Links to other "Old Boys'' Associations/Chat Groups
Added new links to
- TS Arethusda,
- Athel Tankers,
- the Australian MN,
- Australian Shipping Company,
- Avenue Shipping Company,
- Bank Line,
- Ben Line,
- Bibby Line,
- Blue Funnel,
- Bolton Steamship Co.,
- Booker Line,
- Bowrings,
- Brocklebanks,
- BP Shipping Co,
- Buries Markes,
- Canadian Pacific Navigation Co,
- Christian Salvesen,
- Clan Line,
- Cunard,
- Donaldson Line,
- Elder & Fyffes,
- Ellerman Group,
- Furness Bermuda Line,
- Hull Independent MN Association,
- Geest Line,
- Glen Line,
- GSNC,
- Hain Steamship Co.,
- Houlder Brothers,
- Indo-China Steam Navigation Company,
- Irish Shipping Co.,
- RMS Rangitki,
- SS Oriana
Club Members' Only Pages
Added the Minutes of the 2011 AGM and the Club's accounts for 2010.
Diary
Added
- Announcement of the 50th Anniversary Reunion of 1962 QBs in Sept 2012.
- 2012 March 24th 7.30pm Tribute To The Titanic at Liverpool Cathedral
Image Archive
Added new albums:
- Camp Aerial Views
- House Aerial Views
- House Inside
- House Outside
- House Yard
- Kelvin Block Aerial Views
- Kelvin Block Inside
- Kelvin Block Outside
- Kelvin Block Yard
- New Block Aerial Views
- 1946 Documents CWP RN Entrance Exam
- 2010 BBQ in HQS Wellington
- Art Gallery: paintings of the Ship (Nile)
- Art Gallery - Smith (Conway & Indefatigable)
Added 122 new images - all viewable in Accesssions, giving 8,341 in
total. We only need 659 more to reach 9,000 images so while you are
lazing around over Christmas dig out your old photos and documents and
email copies to me at alfie@hmsconway.org
or post them (with your return address) to 2, French Grass, Bradford on Avon, Wilts, BA15 1DX, UK.
Albums affected: 1800s, 2008 Australia, 2011 HQS Wellington, Art
Shoesmith (after Conway), Band, Cutters, Dock, Figurehead, Gold Medals,
QBs, Royal Visits, Rugby 1st, 2nd 3rd and Colts XVs + Misc, Sailing,
Ship Mersey, Staff,Tour of Comnway Scenes Today, Tour of the Ship -
Decks.
Years affected: 1800s, 1898, 1932, 33, 45, 46, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62.
Republished updated 1938 Masting, 1946, Pinnace and the Captain's Gig
Crews albums. Please let me know if you find broken links.
1970 Athletics team aded Heinz's name - thanks to Robin Bradford (67-70)
In Memoriam
- Added version 16 of the Lost At Sea Memorial List
- Added the Obituary for Mortimer and Glasson (1896-97)
- Updated entry for D Roberts
- Added Merchant Navy medal to list of 'Other Awards' - it was awarded to
C M R Lloyd (about1956-7) in 2010 - thanks to Cmdr Ron Warwick (56-57))
for the information.
- Added OBE to list of other awards, belated congratulations to Ian Evans (50-52)
Members of Staff
Created or updated:
- Leslie Bold who served from 1946 to 1957 and still styles himself
Conway's Chief Engineer. He was in the ship for the transits in 1941
and 1953.
- Wallace Blair, Instructor from circa 1860 to 1890.
- Mr Chipp, Second Offr 1882-1909.
- Mr Wyatt, member of the academic staff left May 1901.
- Rev McNeile, Padre from Sep 1900
- Corrected dates for Rev Latham (left Jul 1900)
- George (Tartar) Hunt, 1902.
- Mr Cullingworth left Jul 1903.
- Mr Grime, 1903
- Mr Bakeman 1903
- Mr A H Stuart joined Sep 1904
- Williams, Instructor joined Sep 1904
- Mr Marchant 1899 to 1934
- C J Beecheno 1889
- Mr Charles Light 1894
- John Milson left 1907.
- A new nickname for Wm Tozer - Maggot
Notables
Added
an interesting link to the life and works of Dou'Without Incident' G.
Drake, 'Without Incident' G. Drake, 'Without Incident' G. Drake, glas V
Duff (14-16) Click here
Added a new Commodore of Cunard - Commodore Robert G Thelwall (11-12)
OCs' Web Sites
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2011 Oct 26th
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Changed the image on the home page to announce Alec McNab's appointment as President of Athletics New Zealand.
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2011 Oct 20th
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Changed the image on the home page and updated the Diary enrties
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2011 Sep 22nd
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Bibliography
While
researching for the Obituaries pages I came across an obituary for
John Bulloch (42-44). He was one of the most highly-respected foreign
and diplomatic correspondents, Middle East experts and authors of his
era – from the early 1960s into the new millennium – the author of more
than a dozen books, notably on Iraq, Lebanon, the Gulf and Kurdistan.
He was also a driving force behind the launch of The Independent in
1986 and The Independent on Sunday four years later. I have included details of a number of his books.
Diary
Added details of the Scottish Branches Autumn Get-Together on Novermber 6th 2011. ALos put it on the Home Page
In Memoriam
This
is now the page for all information about OCs: obituaries,
notables OCs, memorials, honour boards and awards etc. It therefore now
includes:
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The Obituaries pages which previously were in the Members Only pages
and so inaccessible to family members and researchers.
- The Notables pages.
Links
Added Britannia Naval College Association
Notables
Moved into the In Memoriam pages and removed from the home page index
Songs & Chants
Added a new page for the three Conway songs, sheet music for them and other Conway chants ands songs
Update (this page!)
Added links back to site updates for 2000, 1999 and 1998. Note that the visitor counter started in 2000.
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2011 Aug 29th
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Home Page
Added a teaser for the new issue of The Cadet and a reminder about the Dinner Dance/AGM
Club Members' Only Pages
The username and password have been changed. The new ones are on page 55 of the Autumn The Cadet.
I have added the new edition of The Cadet.
There is a new set of Obituaries pages which will contain the obits of OCs,
members of staff and members of Conway's Management Committee. I have
copies of all obits from back issues of The Cadet (1889 to 2011) and
several from newspapers/web sites. Eventually I will obtain copies of
all obits from back issues of the Club Newsletter. There are going to
be someting like 12,000 of them so while I have started loading them it will take a while to load them
all!
Shop
Updated prices and stock
items for the Club shop. New PayPal link promised in the The Cadet has
not yet been provided to me - sorry.
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Home Page
At long last I've fixed the home page so the elements stay aligned (I hope) - I've been tearing my hair out over this for ages.
Remember - you can adjust the sound using the loudspeaker symbol.
A Career At Sea
Added "Senior Officer WWII PoW Camp" thanks to Lieutenant GFW Wilson DSO RN via Geoff Haskins,
Image Archive
There are now 8,230 images! The quickest way to see all 510 new images is
the Accessions albums Click Here:
- Roughly 70% of this upload are for the years
62-65 (thanks to Ian Stutt and Tosh Neal for their contributions).
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About 30%
of the new images are of the 150th (albums updated = Liverpool scenes,
gala dinner main room, gala reception, 60-62 dinner, 55-57
dinner, socialising, hotel and cathedral. New album = Invitation Card) Click Here
- There is part of a QB book from 1964 in the Documents section. Here
- Galitzine has been added to Today - How We Look Now.
- Ships Company album updated with 1927 and sorted into year order.
- New image of the Quarterdeck in Tour of the Ship - Decks.
- New Swimming album. Click here.
- New photo of the 62 cross strait swim in the Cross Strait Swim album.
- Rugby Slop Chest now accessible.
- New albums for the two sets of sports grounds at Rock Ferry.Click here.
- Some new photos of the 2006 and 2008 London Summer BBQs
- Some new photos of the 2009 visit to the House of Commons.
- Some new photos of the New Block today including a modern floor plan showing how the dorms have been split up.
- Added photos of Shoesmith's painting of Conway used as a jigsaw.
- A photo of the Sailors' Home site today.
- A new Documents - Newspapers album for the 1962 vist of a famous flyer
- Added a new album for the 2011 reunion of 1961 QBs - they
obviously had a really good time. Click here.
- Added a new album for Captain's Gig Crews - lots of gaps here
so please send me any you have
- I have split the single 1800s album into separate albums for
the years 1859 to 1899 although not all years are covered. Can you help
with some of the missing years? Click here
- There is an all new album listing documents by year. Click here
- Added a new Album in Art Galery for Shoesmith's later work. Click here
- I have generally tidied up the Themes page. You'll see a number of new albums which are Coming Soon.
In Memoriam
Added a new section for the DSO awarded to OCs in WWI and WWII. Once again a big vote of thanks to Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42) who actually did all the hard work.
Diary
Added booking details for the Club's 2011 AGM & Dinner Dance.
Provided contact details for the Western Australia Branch event on September 8th.
Added a new UK East Midlands Branch luncheon event on September 9th and their January 14th 2012 Post Christmas Party Night
Added UK North West Branch's events for 2012.
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2011 July 8th
obits
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A Career At Sea
Added Sussex Constabulary as our 54th Police Service. Thanks to Tim Raggett (Fxl 68-72)
Conway Club Links Page
Added
a new page of Links to the “Old Boys” Associations for pre-sea training
ships and schools, shipping companies and for MN Associations.
Conway Trust
Updated the list of Trustees
Diary
Updated the Lyme Regis Day pages
Added details of several new events and additional information about existing events.
Click here.
Notables
Added new entry for Commodore William Marshall CB DSO and Bar RD RNR (1889-91)
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2011 June 16th
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Diary
Added details of the London BBQ on 5th July 2011 Click here.
Added menu for the Thursday evening gathering at the Lyme Regis Gig Club. Click here
Removed old events
In Memoriam - Lost At Sea
Added
the loss at sea of Cadet William Vionett Godwin
(1893-95) Washed overboard from Star of France off
Tristran da Cuhna aged 17 years 1897 May 22nd (Thanks to
Emanuel School magazine 1897 and family research)
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2011 May 21st
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A Career At Sea?
Added Pilot Port Kembla & Eden (NSW) - thanks to Bryan Hayes (53-55)
Club Members' Only Pages
Added the full acounts for 2009 and the outline acounts for 2008
Diary
Added Conway crew list to the Lyme Regis Gig race pages.
Come along it's fgoing to be a great day and don't forget to email Alfie if you are attending the day.
HMS Conway Trust
Updated the list of Trustees. If you haven't looked at this page please do so and consider subscribing or donating.
Image Archive
Added
206 new images so the archive now has 7,634 entries not counting the
various moving image clips. The quickest way to see them all is the Accessions album.
Added several new artists' work to the Art Gallery. Click Here.
Added new theme albums for Anchor Recovery and the Cross Strait Swim. Click Here.
Added a new Reunion album for Hobart (more to follow). Click here.
Added a new term dinner album for the 150th. Click here.
Added a photo of the Club Dinner in 1929 Click Here
Added photos to year albums for 1800s, 1911, 15, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 46, 47, 52, 53, 53 Tents, 54, 56, 58,
59, 60, 61, 62, 64 Opening, 65, 69, 74. Click here.
Added photos to the loss of the ship in 1953, albums 01, 03, 04, 05, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Click here.
Updated theme albums for Athletics, Breeches Buoy, Concerts &
Plays, Crests, Cutters, Gigs, Gold Medals Winners, How We Look Now,
Models Of The Ship, Plas newydd, Relics & Artefacts, Royal Visits,
Rugby (all of them), Sailing, Ship Bangor, Ship Mersey, Ship Plas
Newydd, Silver, Staff, Stationary, Conway Scenes Today. Click Here.
In Memoriam - Lost At Sea
Added entry for Brian Lloyd (54-55) lost overboard from Booker Monguard on 16th December 1974. There are now 105 entries in the list and a further 12 being researched.
Relics & Artefacts
Added two new models of
Conway giving 10 in total that we know of. The additions are the New
Zealand Model and the Vietamese Model.
Added a note to the "Captain's Cabin Doors". Their provenance is now in terminal doubt.
Updated the Binnacles entry
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2011 May 18th
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Diary
Added
details of the HMS Conway Calcutta Gig Cup race at Lyme Regis on 28th
July 2011. OCs and OWs will re-enact the original race held in Calcutta
in 1893. Six junior gig crews from the West Country will then
inaugurate the annual race for the cup. Join us for the day on the
world famous Cobb.
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A Career At Sea?
Added Chief Executive Swindon Town Football Club - thanks to Nick Watkins (64-68)
Updated the list of Shipping Companies to 830 entries. Time to aim for 900 - if your companies are not listed email me. New entries are:
- Dealgan Shipping Co. Ltd thanks to Robert Hilton (54-56).
- Hardie & Co thanks to the late Patteson and Abigail both (09-10)
- Technip thanks to Alf Wynne-Jones (FXL 67-70) .
- Shoreside Support Ltd thanks to Michael Howorth (64-67).
- E D Sassoon & Co (Bombay) thanks to A H Hicks (21)
- Campbell Maritime thanks to Donald (King Cam) Campbell (62-64) and Peter Johnson (62-65).
Diary
Added costs and details for the SW Branch's lunch at Kelly College. Book early as this always a sell out.
Added a new event in Scotland: a Spring Luncheon at Malmaison House Leith on Sunday 22nd May
In Memoriam - WWI
Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42) has updated details in the WWI Memorial and Honours Lists. I still love that Dead March.
In Memoriam - Lost At Sea
Added entry for Richard Martin Willcock (62-64) lost overboard from Chusal in 1966
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2011 Mar 23rd
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Diary
URGENT! The Vancouver Island Ancient Mariners' dinner is on March 23rd
28th July 2011 Lyme Regis - The inaugural gig race for the HMS Conway Calcutta Cup Click here for initial details.
Home Page
Image Archive
The Image Archive now has 7,328 entries
New album Club Dinner 1923. Click here
New album Tour of the Strait To Bangor Click here
In Memoriam - Lost At Sea
Added a
completely new and dreadfully long list of OCs Lost at Sea in peacetime
i.e. those who have no known grave. I would like to hear from you if
you have any corrections or additions. Email me
In Memoriam - Other Conflicts
Added Waziristan
1922-23 thanks to Gp Capt S B Harris DFC AFC RAF (08-12). His DFC was
awarded for action in the Waziristan operations
Notables
Added a photo and extra details about Captain Sir Malcolm Edge (47-49)
Conway & Titanic
Added details of William Russell-Smith (51-53) - grandson of Titanic's Captai
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2011 Mar 10th
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Club Members' Only Pages
You'll
need the username and password published in the Spring 2011 The Cadet
to access these new pages. The username and password will be changed
with each new The Cadet. Inside the area are separate pages where you
can obtain copies of:
- Minutes of previous Club AGMs
- Summaries of previous Annual Accounts
- Previous editions of The Cadet
Further entries will be added to each section over time and I aim to
include copies of all The Newsletters as well. I also intend to compile
an Obituaries section using the entries from The Cadet/Newsletter
Image Archive
The Shoesmith album has been split into three:
- Sketches he produced while he was a cadet. Added five new images he had published in The Cadet
while he was a cadet.
- Conway images he produced after he left the ship
- His general
work as an artist.
The image archive now has 7,261 entries. Click Here
In Memoriam
Updated the details about several OCs who lost their lives in WWII
Added sound to the pages - Handel's Dead March from Saul
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2011 Mar 7th
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A Career At Sea?
Added
5th/14th Punjab Regt courtesy of Lt Col W F Charter MC (08-09), Bengal
Infantry courtesy of Lt Col T Brodie (1872-74) Now have 195 armed
services.
Added Commissioner of Assam to Other Notable Achievements courtesy of Lt Col T Brodie (1872-74
Conway Club Members Only Pages
The
username and login to access these pages is in latest edition of The
Cadet which has been posted to members. Conternt wil be updated over
time.
Image Archive
At long last I have been able to reload the photo albums for 1967 and 1969. I have no idea why they wouldn't load before. Click here
In Memoriam - Other Awards
Added DCM, KCB, GCMG, KCMG, MM, MVO,
In Memoriam - Other Conflicts
Added Second Balkan War 1912-13
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2011 Feb 7th
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A Career At Sea?
Now
824 shipping companies: Deleted Harrison Line as it duplicated T&J
Harrisons Ltd. Added Huawei Offshore (Peoples' Republic of China),
Papua New Guinea Shipping Corporation and Swire Pacific Offshore.
Thanks to Tim Clerc (69-71).
Added
RN Seige Gun Service to the list of uniformed services but also had to
move a few Police Force entries from the list leaving 193 entries.
Added
new police Forces: City of London, Hertfordshire and Norfolk, thanks to
John Bligh (65-69). Now 53 entries in the Emergency/Uniformed Services
section.
Bibliography added:
Halifax Squadrons of World War II by Jon Lake. Mentions Group Captain Basil Robinson(28-29)
Man of Mafeking: The Bechuanaland Years of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1884-1901) by Elizabeth Main. The story of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1880-83).
The Maritime Art of Kenneth D. Shoesmith (06-07) by Glyn L. Evans. Describes the life and works of the artist Kenneth Shoesmith (06-07).
Club Pages
- Updated the list of Branches and contacts.
Diary
- Updated events for 2011, several new events and changes to existing ones. Best to check everything in your area again.
Friends pages
Updated the Chapel Memorial pages with links to the In Memoriam pages
so that the stories behind the names can be read - see In Memoriam
below.
In Memoriam
We
owe a huge vote of thanks to Lt Cdr Geoffrey Haskins RNZN Rtd (40-42)
whose years of diligent research have brought to life the lists of
names on our Honours Boards and Rolls of Honour.
He has provided completely updated list of names to the WWI and
WWII Honours Boards, the WWI and WWII Roll of Honouyr (Memorial) Boards
and added new lists for "Other Conflicts" and "Other Awards" all with
details of the individuals named.
Also revamped the laytout of this set of pages.
Notable OCs
Added the fascinating story of Edgar Claude Donovan, Croix de Guerre (1900-01)
OCs' "Personal" Web Sites
Corrected the link to 1967-70 Ken Huggins. Still 171 entries.
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2011 Jan 18th
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Teaser Club
Fixed the PayPal link - still not too late to join for this year.
Bibliography
Added new books:
- Diving Stations By Peter Dornham AM The inspiring story of Captain George Hunt DSO DSC RN (30-32)
- The Superyacht Owners Guide 2010 Editorial Consultant Michael Howorth (64-67)
Diary
Added lots of new events for 2011 including the book launch of Diving Stations in Queensland in February.
Friends pages
Updated list of Trustees, Diary Dates and details of Annual Subscriptions, Donations and Bequests - click here
In Memoriam
Added link to Conway Chapel Old Conways' "In Memorium' Boards which gives details of how names can be added.
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