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Update History (most recent at the top)

Date
Update Details (click blue text to go to the page)
2014 Dec 28th
The Cadets' List
Added RN service link for Douglas Charles Kenyon Browning (37-40), Francis Brooke-Smith GC (34-36) and Michael Blois-Brooke (33-36).

Added obituary for Spike Harding (60-63).

Added link for James Hope (1872-74) explaing his links with Joseph Conrad and his role in Heart of Darkness.

Added Bibliography links for Abrahams, Atkinson, Baden Powell, Beavis, Beck, Beggs, Bennett, Brand, Briggs, Brooke-Smith LA, Bulloch, Carter, Clegg, Cockburn, Conway, Coombes, Cornish, Day, Drake, Duff, Duncan Smith, Dyde

2014 Dec 26th
Lost At Sea
Another major update adding more links and photos, including one oif ther Murray brothers - thanks to (previous Club Hon Sec Val Murray).
Now at version 39. If you can provide more info please let Alfie know.

2014 Dec 16th
The Cadets' List
Added new link to artist Bruce Braithwaite's (64-66) website.
Added announcement of the death of Rear Admiral John Edwards CB LVO.
Added link to Lance Greefiled (69-74)'s book.
Added links for L Barradell (08-10) awarded the legion Of Honour for RNR services at Jutland. Later a famer in Kenya.

Bibliography
Added a first novel by Lance Greenfield (69-??) - Eleven Miles


2014 Dec 10th
Lost At Sea
Another major update adding lots of ships' photos.

2014 Dec 8th
Lost At Sea
Updated entries for Allen, Barton, Bishop, Blattner, Carroll,  Conby, Coney. Matthews, The Murray brothers, Phibbs, Pollard, Richardson, Stephens/Szczepanowski (1866-67) and Townson

Added new entries for Norris (1884-86) and Partington (1880-82)


2014 Dec 5th
Image Archive - Art Gallery
Added a new album for john Speer's painting of the ship at Rock Ferry in 1932. This had previoulsy been mis-attributed to Shoesmith. The give a way was the large signature "Speer'!

Home Page
Added several new Conway items for sale for Christmas 2014.

2014 Nov 25th
The Cadets' List
Added new entry for  Captain John L Davidson (71-73).

Added links to all those in the Still At Sea list

Added note that Capt., L A Brooke Smith 1893-95 was a founder member of the HCMM.

Still At Sea List
Added a new menu item to the Home Page under Conway Today to link to the list.
Added new entry for  Captain John L Davidson (71-73)

2014 Nov 21
The Cadets' List
Added links for Harvey Broadbent (1880-81) and Capt Supt 03-27.
Added link for Capt Coombs

2014 Nov 18
Bibliography

Added Bulk Carrier Practice by Jack Isbester (Staff)

The Cadets' List
Added entry for K. Lumbers


2014 Nov 17th
Bibliography

Updated the Conrad page to show that Lord Jim was intended to be an OC. Thanks to Josh Garner.

Moved Mischief Goes South from Books BY OCs to books with Conway content.

Added Conway & The Falklands by David Fletcher-Rogers (43-45).

Added Tanker Practice by GAB King (Staff 52-54)
. Thanks to Josh Garner.

Provided a link to part opf Rick Foster's (60-61) book Finally Gathering Moss which is online.

Added Mike Hingston's (62-65) second book Renegade Hero.

Added Biography of Buster Crabb.

Added The Hothouse Society by Royston Lambert.

Added Tony Perk's (54-55)
Sailing Smacks of the Port of Faversham

Revised and updated the books indexes.
Added new entry for 'Schools 1948' which lists public schools including Conway, Worcester andw Pangbourne.

Added FIVE! new books by Michael Con Lloyd (56-58). He must be the most prolife living OC author. Just take a look at the list of his technical and fiction works.


The Cadets' List
Added Rick Foster's (60-61) web site and Tim Oakes's web site.

Added entries for A. Ashton, A. Brown, A. Collins, 'Buster' Crabb, G. Crawford, P. Denham, J. Fairweather, D Hewitt, M Hook, G. Hunt, J. Hume, J. Jones, J. Mathieson, G. Owen, M. McFakland, G. Palmer, J. Riach,  W. Seybold, G Shires, G. Smith, W. Stevenson, D. Trevorrow, J Watson

2014 Nov 16th
Bibliography

Added new book about a Battle of the Atlantic convoy by Michael 'Con' Lloyd (56-58).

Added new book about the Canadian Coastguard written by Charels Maginely (46-47).

2014 Nov 14
The Cadets' List
Added business link for Trefor Owen (68-71).

2014 Nov 12th
Image Archive Video Clips
2014 Nov 11th Conway ensign (David Hulbert ) at Liverpool pierhead memorial service

2014 Nov 2
Still At Sea
Several updates.
2014 Oct 31
The Cadets
Added a link to photos of Albert Manchester's (04-06) prize to supplement his Obituary.

2014 Oct 27
The Friends Of HMS Conway
Added the Friends' new logo and new pages for the Chapel Brochure and how to hire the Chapel for services.

2014 Oct 23
Club's Members' Only Pages
Added Accounts for 2013.

The Cadets
Added entries for Butler, Chubb, Clay, Clayton, Collier, Elliott, Farrell x2, Islam, (Tudor) Jones, Kemp,  Kinghorn, Lambert, Leatham, Lewarn, Lloyd, Nobles, Pack, Roberts, Roughton, Simpson, Spearing, Stocks, Thurgood, Topp, Verrals, Webb (R) and (M), Yell

2014 Oct 22nd
Club's Members' Only Pages
Added the most recent The Cadet from Jul 2014.

The Cadets
Added entries for Abel, Arnott, Austin, Bent (VC), Bostock, Broom, Burrow, Buttewrworth, Carter, Clegg, Clouting, Collett, Crellin, D'Oyly, Eccles, Edwards, Follenfant, Gordon, Harrison, Haworth, James, Jestico, Jones, Lawton, L'Estrange, Lowe, Mansell-Hope,  Nicholas, Parfect, Reeves, Rigge, Rose, Sidall, Thorpe, Trowbridge, Waugh, Watts


2014 Oct 20th
In Memoriam George Cross/Albert Medal
          Corrected the years for three recipients of this award.


Small Boats
Added details of new Motor Boats in the period around 1895.


2015 Oct 12
Bibliography
Added cover image for Salty Dips.
2014 Oct 8
New dedicated Conway Club site
Following discussions with the Club we have agreed that the exsiting club pages should be moved to a dedicated Conway Club web address. I shall continue to maintain the site and shortly we shall announced new club emails for the President, Hon Sec and Treasurer.

I am still working to resolve the issues preventing many of you getting through to the Members' Only pages


2014 Oct 3
Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine
Oct 14 issues has an article about Conway.
2014 Oct 1


In Memoriam
Today is the anniversary of Col Bent (10-12) being awared the VC so I added a couple of extra links including one to his regimental history that includes a photo of him.
The Ships - Nile
Added three photos of Nile at Halifax 1850-60

A Career At Sea?
Added Accountant, Lusaka City Council in Zambia. Thanks to David Morgan.
2014 Sep 27
The Cadets List
Added death of Richard Francis Lorraine in 1998. Thanks to Wendy Stacey for discovering his death certificate.

2014 Sep 16
Small Boats
Added photo of the Pinannce burning in the Dock in 1970.

2014 Aug 25
Image Archive
1953 short clip of the ship aground - judging by her hull lines it was filmed soon after she grounded. Taken from  BBC TV Flog It programme from Bangor and broadcast on 24/8/14. It also describes the Strait and the Suspension Bridge.
2014 Aug 13

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Friends of HMS Conway
It is now possible to make donations via the Charties Aid Foundation website: https://www.cafonline.org/my-personal-giving/start-giving/donate-now.aspx

2014 Aug 8
Home Page
Invitation to join a cruise in a tall ship at Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta.

Conway VCs
Updated the entry for Gus Bonner (1899-1901)

"The Cadets"
Updated 'The Cadets List' with links for Kyle Bellew, Charles 'Gus' Bonner VC, Raymond Cafferata, Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, Bernartd Dunphy, Donald Gunn, Phillip Bagshaw Lohnson, Henry L'Estrange, Henry Jauncey, John Manton, John Gifford Ridell, Arthur Rostron, Michael Sokolov (Military Spy), Roger Wickens, Alfie Windsor.

2014 Aug 4
CCCs
Corrected entry for Summer 1966 to read G Symes

2014 June 18
Staff (Captain Superintendents)
Added a profile of Rear Admiral Edward Franklin (Capt Sup., 1871 - Sep 1881) and details of his medals. Thanks to Tim Dodd (63-65) for spotting the details online.

2014 June 16
Home Page
Added detals of this year's Club AGM and Dinner Dance.

2014 May 23 Club - Officers Page
Added David Fletcher-Rogers (43-45) and Anthony Braithwaite (47-49) as ne Honorary Vice Presidents.

2014 May 19
Image Archive
Updated links to Old Conway footage from Pathe News that are now on YouTube.

2014 May 14
Added details of the London BBQ to the Home Page
2014 April 19

"The Cadets"
Updated 'The Cadets List' with links for Champion, Crofton, Morton, Siddall, Parfect, Purser, Tristarm, White

Small Boats
Added news that Fife No 2 Morwys, after many years at Salcombe, has been sold to a Swiss man and now sales on a Swiss lake (thanks to Andrew Wright).

2014 Mar 18







Bibliography
Added Everilda by Donald Alexander MacAlister (1889-90)


New! "The Cadets" Page
Created a new page 'The Cadets'  to show what became of OCs. There are five entries:
1.    'The Cadets List': a full list of all cadets with joining and leaving dates. Over time I will add their achievements, web sites, obits etc.
2.    'Notable OCs': the existing Notables page relocated from In Memoriam.
3-5. Links to three "term" pages I know of. These are separate pages maintained by other OCs about their term or QB group.

If you have a web page for your term/QBs etc. please email me so I can add it to this page.

Updated 'The Cadets List' with links for all Easter 1959 QBs and for:
Arnold, Arnott, Aspin, Atkinson, Balfour (4th Earl), Bennett, Berna, Blakey, Blunt, Bradford, Vice Admiral D Brown, David Brown, Burns, Butterworth, Clouting, Murry, Scott, Sessions, Sinnott, Smiley, A Smith, H P B Smith, Syddall, Van Bergen, Wade, Walker, Warden-Owen, Warrand, Warren, Warwick (Bil), Warwick (Ron), Watkins, (Spider) Webb, Wilcox, Withey, Woodland, Woodward, Work, Wright and Youde.

2014 Mar 6
A Career At Sea?
Senior Officers: Commodores RN/RIN  Added our 25th enrty - Commodore Richard Garstin OBE, CBE RIN (1900/02)  returned from the Retired List of the RIN in 1942 to become a Commodore of Ocean Convoys in 1942.

Notable Achievements:
- added President of Malaysian Nautical Institute (IKMAL), President of The Chartered Institute of Transport (Malaysia National Council, Director of Kuantan Port Authority and Chairman of Global Maritime Ventures  (thanks Suffian 64-67)
- added Fellow of the Institute of Physics (thanks Bill Trowbridge (46-48))


Bibliography
RE-ordered the Comway Authors page to be in alpha order by OC's name so that all books by7 asingle person can be viewed.
Cretaed a new page fopr Books by members of staff.
Moved the Guide to British Naval Papers in North America by R Morris to books by OCs.

Added around a dozen new cover images including several for Duff, The Nation's  Key Men by Coombes, Mason's Book of Steamers, Kinghorn's Away To Sea, and Bulloch's Death Of A Country

Added:
-  Two biographies of Hammer horror filmaker Terence Fisher (19-21)
-  Two book about/including works by Kenneth Shoesmith (06-08)
-  16 books
by Brian S Dyde (51-53) about the Carribean.
-  Three novels by Michael 'Con' Lloyd (56-58)
-  Triangle Trade by Geoff Woodland (60-62)
-  Titanic Hero The re-issued autobiography of Captain Rostron of the Carpathia
by Sir Arthur Henry Rostron KBE RD RNR (1885-86)

Added to the newspapers section a two page feature from the March 1889 Boys Own Paper about the merits of Conway training written by Captain A T Millar RN FRGS the Captain Superintendent.


The Cadets List
Noted the deaths of M. R. F. Carter (42-44), Captain Trevor Haworth AM (46-47) and Captain Frederick George Hanvey Mansell-Hope (45-47)


Club Pages
Updated the list of Officers and Committee members

Members of Staff
Academic Staff: added more details aof Mr Arthur Eustace Blomfield joined October 1911 from his home in Lewisham to teach French and History for the Osborne Class. Left Dec 1910. in 1914 he joined the Army as a Lt in the23rd Div Amm Col RFA. He was killed in action on 27/28th Oct 1918, Buried Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade.

Technical Staff: added a web link for
Mr. A.R. Ollerton (Ollie) in 1960 was Focsle divisional officer


2014 Mar 4
Club Members Only Pages
Updated the Still At Sea list - new photos and links
2014 Feb 28
Club Members Only Pages
Updated password as per the March The Cadet
Loaded the March the Cadet

2014 Feb 18th
The Cadets List
Noted the death in Feb 2014 of Michael R.F. Carter (42-44)
Image Archive Film
 2014 Jan 31st
Club Members Only Pages - Still At Sea List
Updated with new entry fro Ian McRae (61-63)

Ship Histories -
Conway(1)

Added a breakdown of her armament and details of her attack on Chusan in 1840.

2014 Jan 21st
Obituary added for Peter Austin (35-37) the founder of Ringwood Brewery and inventor of Micro Brewing techniques.

A Career At Sea also updated with those achievements.

2014 Jan 18th
Home page updated with image of new Conway mug available through the shop.

2014 Jan 7th
Club Members Only Pages - Still At Sea List
Updated with new information and links to vessel details and location

2014 Jan 6th
Members of Staff
Split this monolithic page into several smaller pages each dedicated to a separate group of staff.

Updates 2013

Updates 2012

Updates 2011
Updates 2010
Updates 2009
Updates 2008
Updates 2007
Updates 2006
Updates 2005
Updates 2004
Updates 2003
Updates 2002
Updates 2001
Notices 2001
Updates 2000
Updates 1999
Updates 1998


 
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