HMS Conway

Updates in 2020 (most recent at the top)

Updates in previous years

2020 Dec 24th	Sea Career Updated entry for OCs & India Pt 2: Calcutta.
2020 Dec 23rd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Haskins.
2020 Dec 17th	Lost At Sea Updated entry for Lloyd. The Cadets List Updated entry for Puddifer
2020 Dec 16th	Sea & Shore Added new paper 'OCs Out of Africa listing 71 OCs who joined from Africa.With thanks to the late Tony Ashworth who compiled the original list
2020 Dec 15th	Home Page Added details and link to the Rock Ferry Waterfront Trust
2020 Dec 3rd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Scott, Shawcross, Sheldrake, Snodgrass and Sutton
2020 Dec 1st	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Hughes.
2020 Nov 29th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Wadsworth, Warren-Evans, Watson x2, White, Whitelaw, Williams x2, Wood and Wootton
2020 Nov 28th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Garner.
2020 Nov 27th	The Cadets' List Added new entry for Kinsella Sea & Shore Added our 327th armed forces entry - the French Foreign Legion, thanks to Kinsella.
2020 Nov 25th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Hugh Perks
2020 Nov 20th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Lambert, Lawrence, Lewis, Lightowler, Lofts.
2020 Nov 19th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Roden and Hayews, Morgan, Wadswick and Wright
2020 Nov 17th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Davies, Denham, Dennison, Ditchfield, Dixon, Downes, Drysdale, Dyde.
2020 Nov 16th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for two Royds
2020 Nov 13th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Ballaam, Barclay, Bennett, Beveridge, Bray, Broadbent, Brooking.
2020 Nov 12th	Lost At Sea Updated entry for Turner.
2020 Nov 11th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Maud, McGavin, Mudford x2. Haque, Harbottle, Harrison x2, Hart, Heaven, Hills, Hilton, Hopkinson, Howdle, Hughes x5, Humphries, Hunter, Hyde-Barker. Graham x2, Gibbons and Greig. Waugh.
2020 Nov 10th	Image Archive The archive now has 11,473 photos and films of and about HMS Conway, her cadets and staff. Added links to the following new albums: - Silver Competition Cups - Silver Individual Winners' Cups - Conway PN Mooring - Conway Mast @ Welsh National Sailing Academy + 18 new images
2020 Nov 9th	The Cadets' List Updated approximately 30 entries in the "B"s.
2020 Nov 8th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Kirkham
2020 Nov 6th	Lost At Sea Added several corrections and clarifications.
2020 Nov 5th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Dunphy.
2020 Nov 2nd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Capt David Smith RN
2020 Oct 28th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Lockwood
2020 Oct 23rd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Richmond, Rogers, Roycroft
2020 Oct 22nd	Sea & Shore Tidied up the wording and layout of this page.
2020 Oct 21st	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Badger, Beattie, Beck, Booker, Brown and Butler.
2020 Oct 19th	The Cadets' List Added very interesting new entries for Bushilll. Start with the Life Story link. Thanks to Bloy.
2020 Oct 12th	Staff - Crew Updated the entry for engineer Leslie Bowles including a photo.
2020 Oct 11th	Ship - Other Conways Added details of a song mentioning a vessel called Conway.
2020 Oct 10th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Baden-Powell.
2020 Oct 9th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Young
2020 Oct 7th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Galbraith (00-04)
2020 Oct 5th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Stewart (70-74)
2020 Oct 4th	Lost At Sea Added a new entry for Barham with considerable thanks to M Bloy.. Corrected entry for Fox.
2020 Oct 3rd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Walker x2, Watson, Welland, West, Wilson, Wood, Woodland.
2020 Oct 2nd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for K Bill (08-10)
2020 Oct 1st	OCs & The RCN Added revised version. Further improvement needed.
2020 Sep 30th	Lost At Sea Revised entry for Niblett. The Cadets' List Added new entries for Niblett.
2020 Sep 26th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for MacVicker, McCloskey, McColl, McConomy, Mewes, Miller, Miners, Moore, Morgan.
2020 Sep 24th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Foster brothers and three other unrelated Fosters from the 50's.
2020 Sep 17th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Wildermuth (RNR Service Record) and Wright (too many to list!). Added new links for Coates.
2020 Sep 16th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Thorpe, Tosach, Tristram and Tyler. Added new link for Barradel, Bartlett, Bittles, Brewer, Burnham, Burton
2020 Sep 15th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Ward, Warrand, Watson, Weeks, Wevill, Wheeler, Whitehead, Whiteside, Wildman, Wildmuth (and corrected name from Wildsmith), Wiatt, Wildsmith, Willcock, Williams, Wilson, Winsdsor, Winslow, Winton, Wood and Pete Ransome fxl gig rower extraordinaire
2020 Sep 14th	Home Page Added reviews of HMS Conway - Yesterday & Today In Photos.
2020 Apr 12th	History - Snowdonia Sea & Shore - Snowdonia Added updated information about use of Hafod Bach.
2020 Sep 11th	Cadet Captains Revised the entry
2020 Sep 10th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Hassell
2020 Sep 9th	The Cadets' List Added links for Molvig.
2020 Sep 7th	Image Archive Added 240 new photos including several new ones of the ship at Bangor and Rock Ferry, and some full colour photos of the wreck smoldering. Now 11,455 photos online. Added new albums for Art Gallery - Nash, Branches 1998 Kwazulu, 2010 Sydney, Club Dinner 2009, Models - HMS London, Models - HMS Rodney, Models - Pinnacle, Reunion 67 QBs in 2006, Today - Ship's Mooring @ PN Split the Silver album into: Silver Competition Cups, Silver - Individual Winners' Cups, Silver - Other Document Archive Added 70 new documents/pages including the 1950 Prospectus and an interesting plan of the New Block giving two possible alignments. Now 5,684 entries.
2020 Sep 6th	Home Page Copies of the new book HMS Conway - Yesterday & Today In Photos are now available.
2020 Sep 4th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Walker, Wallin, Wardle, Whitehouse, Wilkie, Wilson, Wise, Wright
2020 Sep 2nd	Friends web site home page Updated news of the PN memorial dedication day.
2020 Aug 28th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Fardell
2020 Aug 26th	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Edwards
2020 Aug 23rd	The Cadets' List Added new entries for Harboard, Clarke, Coates, Coles, Crawford, Crawley and Cubin
2020 Apr 21st	Lost At Sea Revised entry for Boomer.
2020 Aug 19th	The Cadets' List Added leaving dates for Openshaw x2 Added new entry for Hines Added brothers notes for Breen-Turners Added nicknames for 'Sloth' Jutsom, 'Chink" Hall and "Puff' Kearsley
2020 Aug 15th	Staff - Padres Added revised entry for Rev Kenneth Edmunds with thanks to his son
2020 Aug 12th	Staff - Academics Added nickname for 'Ikey' Wood
2020 Aug 11th	Image Archive Added our 62nd film clip in '2: Historic Scenes'. It is a short clip of the ship aground being unloaded on 14th April 1953.
2020 Aug 10th	Bibliography - Newspapers & Magazines Added an article from the Sydney Mail (15th Jul 1925) about a visit to the ship. Includes a photograph.
2020 Aug 9th	Slop Chest - Cadet Numbers Updated the table
2020 Aug 8th	The Cadets' List Added links /information for Tidey and Tollast
2020 Aug 7th	The Cadets' List Added links /information for Richards, Richardson, Ridley, Roberts x4, Roderick, Rogers x2, Rosoman
2020 Aug 6th	The Cadets' List Added links /information for Sandy, Sneedon
2020 Aug 5th	The Cadets' List Added leaving dates for Badger
2020 Aug 4th	The Cadets' List Added links for Mahony, McCaughrean, McKenow, Mayor, Meadowcroft, Milner, Mitchell, Moss, Muir.
2020 Aug 2nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Webb and Woodward
2020 Aug 1st	The Cadets' List Added links for Masefield and Moody
2020 Jul 30th	The Cadets' List Added links for Fraser
2020 Jul 28th	The Cadets' List Added links for Dahl, Dodd and Duncan-Smith
2020 Jul 26th	The Cadets' List Added links for Buster Crabbe
2020 Jul 25th	The Cadets' List Added links for Bellew, Brooke-Smith (G & F) and Brown
2020 Jul 22nd	Bibliography Removed the Accession's table as necessary.
2020 Jul 20th	Home Page Friends web site home page Updated news of the PN memorial dedication day.
2020 Jul 18th	Image Archive Added our 61st film clip in '2: Historic Scenes'. It is a short clip of the ship in 1938. it starts 6.38 minutes in.
2020 Jul 15th	The Cadets' List Added links for Nicholls and Nighy
2020 Jul 5th	Bibliography - Newspapers Added link to a North Wales Online feature on the loss of the ship.
2020 Jul 3rd	Image Archive Added our 60th film clip - new short image in '3: Modern Scenes' of Conway on the Menai Strait section of the Wales Coast path video. They seem to have copied our idea of an image of the ship seeming afloat on the Strait but from opposite the wreck site.
2020 Jul 3rd	Image Archive Added a new film in '2: Historic Scenes' of the ship aground days after the grounding and on fire in 1956. Our 59th film clip.
2020 Jul 1st	The Cadets' List Added links for 2x Ball, Blakely, Bunce
2020 Jun 24th	Lost At Sea Added new entry for Blackler - our 294th entry.
2020 Jun 17th	The Cadets' List Added links for 2x Blacklers
2020 Jun 14th	Slop Chest Corrected spelling mistakes and revised entries for Petty Officers and Cadet Captains.
2020 Jun 6th	Relics & Artifacts Updated entry for the MMM
2020 May 28th	The Cadets' List Added links for Mounsey
2020 May 17th	OCs & D-Day Discovered a new OCs who participated - Mosley Updated his cadets List entry as well Senior Officers Added our 36th Commodore RN/RNR - White
2020 May 14th	The Cadets' List Added links for George Hunt DSO, Heaver Added links for Babbington, Bowie x2, Bray, Brown, Buckler ans Edsell
2020 May 10th	The Cadets' List Added links for Bridge
2020 May 7th	Staff - Technicals Added links for Bossy Phelps
2020 May 6th	The Cadets' List Lost At Sea Added links for Lane, Shilstone and Webb.
2020 May 5th	The Cadets' List Added links for Davys and De Verinne. Lost At Sea Updated entries for Davys and De Verinne. OCs & The IWT (Iraq) Added new entry for de Verinne.
2020 May 4th	The Cadets' List Added links for Abe, Abbott, Archer, Armour, Armstrong x2 and Aspinall
2020 May 1st	The Cadets' List Added links for Newnham.
2020 Apr 30th	The Cadets' List Added links for Barnes, Broadbent, Chase, Lavender, Littlehayes, Reardon and Vincent.
2020 Apr 29th	The Cadets' List OCs & Gallipoli Removed Barry from Gallipoli paper as he died after the campaign. Added a link to Berry's Cadet's List entry. Updated Ricjhardson. Thanks to Michael Bloy.
2020 Apr 28th	A Proud Tradition Continues Added links for the Seven Seas Club
2020 Apr 27th	The Cadets' List OCs & Gallipoli Added links for Brooke-Booth.
2020 Apr 25th	Home Page Added new link to Pininterest photo album about Conway but all images are actually already in our Image Archive. King of the Woods Added Jim Booth to Summer 66.
2020 Apr 24th	The Cadets' List Added links for the Shanks brothers.
2020 Apr 23rd	History - Snowdonia Sea & Shore - Snowdonia Added updated version of paper on cadets and the mountains to include information about Hafod Bach.
2020 Apr 20th	The Cadets' List Added links for Matthews, Newnham and Ward.
2020 Apr 18th	The Cadets' List Added links for Palfreman, Parker, Parkes, Parry, Pateras, Patterson, Pearce, Phillip, Preston, Price, Prior, Proud, Pryce,
2020 Apr 16th	Image Archive - Art Gallery Revised the article on Ellis by adding a photo of him standing in front of his large Conway painting.
2020 Apr 15th	Home Page Link to the Club reinstated. Misc - Crests Removed section on the evolution of the Club Badge as that is more appropriate to the Club's website.
2020 Apr 12th	Lost At Sea Revised entries for Moody and Taggert.
2020 Apr 10th	Sea & Shore In Memoriam Revised these pages so that entries were in the correct place and more clearly presented.
2020 Apr 6th	Image Archive - Art Gallery Revised the article on Ellis and added a new painting by him of Nile that used to hang in Capt Hewitt's office.
2020 Apr 6th	Image Archive The archive has lost 31 images from the 1973 album and so now has 11,184 photos and films of and about HMS Conway, her cadets and staff. The owner of the photos, Nick Grayson, decided to cancel his approval for them to be used on the site. They were provided to me for the archive in 2007 but he as now changed his mind. A great shame as several were unique shots.
2020 Apr 5th	OCs & The Indian Navies T he Cadets' List Added links for West, Williamson, Woolcott, Wright, Hay, Selby-Smith
2020 Apr 4th	Staff - Chief Officer Added Conway years for Radford.
2020 Apr 2nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Ricketts, Ritchie, Roberts x2, Rogers and Rolt
2020 Mar 23rd	Art Gallery Added a new album for Carmichael with a new painting of the ship. Now have 11, 215 images in the Image Archive.
2020 Mar 22nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Warde, Sabine, Slater
2020 Mar 21st	Staff - Academics Added photo and more information about Mr King
2020 Mar 20th	OCs & The Indian Navies The Cadets' List Added links for Hall, Hay, Hill, James, Major, Ross.
2020 Mar 17th	The Cadets' List Added links for Haine, Hainsworth, Hamilton x2, Hargreaves, Harrold, Hayward, Hedges, Helsby, Hellowell, Hemnell, Hibbert, Holdsworth, Hoseason and Hunnisett, Hustwick
2020 Mar 16th	The Cadets' List Added links for Hamzah, Hare, Hedowrth-Young, Hepburn, Homer, Hunter x2
2020 Mar 15th	The Cadets' List Added links for Thurn
2020 Mar 12th	Staff - Technicals Added photo of Gabby King
2020 Mar 10th	The Cadets' List Added links for Hugh Fagus (author Hugh Conway)
2020 Mar 8th	Lost @Sea Updated several entries
2020 Mar 6th	OCs & Gallipoli Added a new OC
2020 Mar 5th	Bibliography - Books by OCs Added covers fro Fletcher Rogers (x2) and Warwick
2020 Mar 4th	The Cadets' List Added links for Crowley
2020 Mar 2nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Tyrell
2020 Mar 1st	The Cadets' List Added links for Francis
2020 Feb 26th	The Cadets' List Added links for Kelly
2020 Feb 20th	The Cadets' List Added links for Howie
2020 Feb 19th	Bibliography - Books by Members of Staff Corrected Jack Isbester's entries.
2020 Feb 18th	The Cadets' List Added links for Pratt , Sandy, Simmons, Suren, Tyrell
2020 Feb 17th	The Cadets' List Added links for Pratt, Schunk, Simms, Speirs, Sutcliffe, Sydney
2020 Feb 14th	The Cadets' List Added links for Lake, Lamb, Larkin, Lambert, Law, Leggett, Lloydx2, Lloyd-Jones x2, Lowe, Lunn
2020 Feb 10th	Home Page Added info about new Conway book
2020 Feb 8th	The Cadets' List Added links for Pratt
2020 Feb 2nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Aslin - died of wounds in WW1. Buried Entebbe
2020 Jan 31st	The Cadets' List Added links for Graham-Brown
2020 Jan 28th	The Cadets' List Added links for Farnfield, Jackson x4, James x3, Jenkins x2, Johnson, Johnston, Jones x6, Jordan x2
2020 Jan 24th	Staff - Technicals Added links to a letter re Bastow
2020 Jan 22nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Howorth
2020 Jan 16th	The Cadets' List Added links for Lawrence x2
2020 Jan 13th	Image Archive - Videos New Minecraft "model" of HMS Conway - confirmed at 37 seconds in Added sevn more viddeo clips Image Archive now has 11,213 entries
2020 Jan 10th	The Cadets' List Added links for Husni, Withy
2020 Jan 9th	The Cadets' List Added links for Gasson, Gillot, Granville-Edge, O'Donnell
2020 Jan 7th	The Cadets' List Added links for Collins, Harrison, Rea, and Read
2020 Jan 2nd	The Cadets' List Added links for Brown, Lalor, Lambert, Lapsley, Lee, Lemon, Lock, Parr, Robinson, White
2020 Jan 1st	Updates Archived 2019 and started a new list for 2020.