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The Navy Is Here!
CONTACT ! The Newsletter of the former RAF Defford Reunion Association, now merged with the DEFFORD AIRFIELD HERITAGE GROUP in partnership with THE NATIONAL TRUST, CROOME http://deffordairfieldheritagegroup.wordpress.com Editor: Bob Shaw Distribution: Ann Sterry Number 124, February 2019 THE NAVY IS HERE! Photo: Geoff Shaw Royal Navy Corsair comes in fast and low. There were at least four Corsairs at Defford from 1944, for trials with the Royal Naval section at Defford. In this edition of ‘Contact!’ we tell the story of Lt Cdr ‘Loopy’ Dunworth DSC, who was Officer Commanding the Naval Section at Defford 1951-1953. A popular and eccentric figure, he stayed on at Defford as a test pilot with Boulton Paul (see ‘Contact!’ no. 123, January 2019), at Defford after leaving the Navy. .2. Lt Cdr Geoffrey “Loopy” Dunworth DSC OC Naval Section, RAF Defford 1951-53. BPA Pilot 1953-1961 By Les Whitehouse, with additional material from Dennis Williams and overall editing by the editor Born in Manchester 5/8/1921 Geoff Dunworth qualified as a Research Chemist for ICI but in Sept 1940 he volunteered to be aircrew with the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, as an Observer. From RNAS Arbroath, he was posted to 817 Squadron aboard HMS Victorious, August 1941, which was part of the replacements for aircraft losses over Petsamo and Kirkenes, Norway in July. Escort of the Arctic convoys to Archangel (Operation Dervish) and then the escort of HMS Argus returning from Murmansk followed. Victorious launched air attacks, on targets in Norway, through to October 1941. L/A Geoff Dunworth along with gunner L/A Davies were teamed up with S/L Raymond. -
Fig. 1. Frigate Believed to Be Pallas. Painted by Charles Brooking, 1759
149 APPENDIX A FIGURES Fig. 1. Frigate believed to be Pallas. Painted by Charles Brooking, 1759. From Brooking, 8 Fig. 2. Frigate entering Portsmouth. Painted by Thomas Mitchell, 1780. From Brooking, 100 150 Fig. 3. Ship’s lines for frigate HMS Pallas. Based on NMM: ADM 2042 - Admiralty drawings for Pallas’ sister ship HMS Brilliant Fig. 4. Keel and keelson assembly detail. From White, 31 151 152 Fig. 5. Interior profile plan for frigate HMS Pallas. Based on NMM: ADM 2196 Admiralty drawings HMS Pallas 153 Fig. 6. Various types of scarfs used in construction of Pallas. 154 Fig. 7. Stem assembly detail. After Goodwin, 37 Fig. 8. Bow construction detail of frigate Pandora. From McKay and Coleman, 30 155 Fig. 9. Stern construction detail of frigate Pandora. From McKay and Coleman, 31 Fig.10. Stem boxing detail. From White, 31 156 Fig. 11. Interior construction detail for frigate HMS Pallas. © 2005 by P. Erik Flynn. All Rights Reserved 157 Fig. 12. Frame assembly detail. From White, 39 Fig. 13. Hawse pieces detail. From Ollivier, 57 Fig. 14. Midship section detail frigate HMS Pallas. © 2005 by P. Erik Flynn. All Rights Reserved 158 Fig. 15. Spirketting and quickwork detail. From Ollivier, 57 159 160 Fig. 16. Gun deck construction detail for frigate HMS Pallas. © 2005 by P. Erik Flynn. All Rights Reserved 161 Fig. 17. Lower deck construction detail for frigate HMS Pallas. © 2005 by P. Erik Flynn. All Rights Reserved 162 Fig. 18. Fore and aft orlop construction detail for frigate HMS Pallas. © 2005 by P. Erik Flynn. All Rights Reserved 163 Fig. -
TRIARIUS-Especial-28.Pdf
1 Presentación Carlos Alfredo de Jorge es Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina “Santa María de los Buenos Aires”, Instituto de Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales. Durante más de 20 años ejerció como profesor titular en la Cátedra de Geografía Física Argentina y en la Cátedra de Geografía Regional de la República Argentina, en el Consejo Superior de Educación Medellín - Colombia Católica (CONSUDEC). También ejerció como docente en Edición Especial No. 28 otros prestigiosos centros de educación superior, incluyendo 21 de Julio de 2019 el Colegio Militar de la Nación y la Escuela Superior de Editor Gendarmería Nacional “Gral Brig Don Manuel María Douglas Hernández Calderón”. Ha sido publicado en distintas oportunidades, y Autor de esta obra es un colaborador habitual de esta revista. Carlos Alfredo de Jorge (Argentina). En esta oportunidad el Doctor Carlos de Jorge nos presenta Doctor en Ciencias Políticas. un análisis de la llamada “Diplomacia de las Cañoneras”, que no es otra cosa, que la imposición de la voluntad de quien tiene el poder militar, sobre quienes se encuentran en una Esta es una edición especial publicada por el Observatorio posición de vulnerabilidad. Esta ha sido la constante a lo Internacional sobre el Terrorismo y largo de la historia, como nos lo demuestra este documento. las Nuevas Amenazas. Complementa el Boletín que se publica Y aun lo es, aunque la situación se disfrace con un manto de regularmente cada 15 días. falsedades, con la ayuda de los mass media y las redes sociales. Este aporte, viene a contribuir con la comprensión de Información de Contacto: algunos de los fenómenos geopolíticos, y para darnos una Douglas Hernández visión más amplia de la realidad en que nos ha tocado vivir. -
The Forgotten Fronts the First World War Battlefield Guide: World War Battlefield First the the Forgotten Fronts Forgotten The
Ed 1 Nov 2016 1 Nov Ed The First World War Battlefield Guide: Volume 2 The Forgotten Fronts The First Battlefield War World Guide: The Forgotten Fronts Creative Media Design ADR005472 Edition 1 November 2016 THE FORGOTTEN FRONTS | i The First World War Battlefield Guide: Volume 2 The British Army Campaign Guide to the Forgotten Fronts of the First World War 1st Edition November 2016 Acknowledgement The publisher wishes to acknowledge the assistance of the following organisations in providing text, images, multimedia links and sketch maps for this volume: Defence Geographic Centre, Imperial War Museum, Army Historical Branch, Air Historical Branch, Army Records Society,National Portrait Gallery, Tank Museum, National Army Museum, Royal Green Jackets Museum,Shepard Trust, Royal Australian Navy, Australian Defence, Royal Artillery Historical Trust, National Archive, Canadian War Museum, National Archives of Canada, The Times, RAF Museum, Wikimedia Commons, USAF, US Library of Congress. The Cover Images Front Cover: (1) Wounded soldier of the 10th Battalion, Black Watch being carried out of a communication trench on the ‘Birdcage’ Line near Salonika, February 1916 © IWM; (2) The advance through Palestine and the Battle of Megiddo: A sergeant directs orders whilst standing on one of the wooden saddles of the Camel Transport Corps © IWM (3) Soldiers of the Royal Army Service Corps outside a Field Ambulance Station. © IWM Inside Front Cover: Helles Memorial, Gallipoli © Barbara Taylor Back Cover: ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London © Julia Gavin ii | THE FORGOTTEN FRONTS THE FORGOTTEN FRONTS | iii ISBN: 978-1-874346-46-3 First published in November 2016 by Creative Media Designs, Army Headquarters, Andover. -
At the Double a Snowy Douaumont
JOURNAL February 48 2013 At the Double A snowy Douaumont Please note that Copyright for any articles contained in this Journal rests with the Authors as shown. Please contact them directly if you wish to use their material. 1 Hello All An interesting article in the Times caught my eye a couple of weeks ago. Carrying the heading: ‘Dramatic boost for campaign to honour first black officer’, it covers the life of Walter Tull, a coloured professional footballer with Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town, who joined up in the ranks at the beginning of the War, enlisting in the 17th Battalion (1st Footballer’s), Middlesex Regiment as it came to be known, and was later commissioned, before being killed in March, 1918. The campaign referred to, asks the government to award him a posthumous Military Cross for his bravery, and indeed, he had been recommended for the MC for courageous acts undertaken some time before his death. But, one presumes that, given that a unit could only receive so many awards in a month, more meritorious acts were recognised, and so Walter Tull’s gallantry sadly went unrewarded. The award of a posthumous MC to a very brave man does sound like a nice idea, but in these specific circumstances is it not woolly-headed? Politically correct even? I think that it is both, and would set an unwelcome precedent. With the rationing of medals, whoever had to decide who should receive the six, shall we say, awards from ten recommendations had to make a judgement call, and these decisions were made at Brigade and Division level. -
WEEKENDER the Second Destruction of the HMS Aboukir
Saturday, October 22, 2011 Page 11 WEEKENDER The second destruction of the HMS Aboukir HERITAGE MATTERS DR EDWARD HARRIS ‘Underwater Cultural Her- was in Bermuda in earlier itage encompasses all traces decades when there was at least of human existence that lie one outfit here that purchased or were lying under water such ‘scrap’ materials for ship- HMS Aboukir, a Cressy Class cruiser, launched in 1900, pictured about 1905. and have a cultural or his- ping overseas. torical character. Recognis- That is perhaps why bronze teers. ing the urgent need to propellers are now missing from Of our 22 year old man off the preserve and protect such historic and picturesque ship- Dutch coast, it is likely he enlist- heritage, UNESCO elaborat- wrecks in local waters, to say ed in the Royal Navy, being: ed in 2001 the Convention on nothing of ‘disappeared’ port- “SMITH, William Edmund, the Protection of the Under- holes and other features of met- L/1874, 1st class cook, R.N., lost water Cultural Heritage. — al on those carcases of the on HMS Aboukir 1914, Septem- UNESCO website 2011 misfortunes of others. ber 22, a coloured man, believed Nearer to Britain, where we to have been the first Bermudi- The continuing global reces- sent hundreds of our young men an to lose his life in this war, son sion and the sharp increase in in the two World Wars, some of of William Felix Smith and his the value of precious and semi- whom died on the soils of The wife Emma Jane, née Douglas, of precious metals represents a Netherlands or nearby, Dutch Harmon’s Hill, Somerset, bap- worldwide threat to heritage salvage operators are enacting tised 1893, June 4, at St James sites, both on land and under the the second destruction of HMS Church, Sandys. -
1 Introduction
Notes 1 Introduction 1. Donald Macintyre, Narvik (London: Evans, 1959), p. 15. 2. See Olav Riste, The Neutral Ally: Norway’s Relations with Belligerent Powers in the First World War (London: Allen and Unwin, 1965). 3. Reflections of the C-in-C Navy on the Outbreak of War, 3 September 1939, The Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs, 1939–45 (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1990), pp. 37–38. 4. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 10 October 1939, in ibid. p. 47. 5. Report of the C-in-C Navy to the Fuehrer, 8 December 1939, Minutes of a Conference with Herr Hauglin and Herr Quisling on 11 December 1939 and Report of the C-in-C Navy, 12 December 1939 in ibid. pp. 63–67. 6. MGFA, Nichols Bohemia, n 172/14, H. W. Schmidt to Admiral Bohemia, 31 January 1955 cited by Francois Kersaudy, Norway, 1940 (London: Arrow, 1990), p. 42. 7. See Andrew Lambert, ‘Seapower 1939–40: Churchill and the Strategic Origins of the Battle of the Atlantic, Journal of Strategic Studies, vol. 17, no. 1 (1994), pp. 86–108. 8. For the importance of Swedish iron ore see Thomas Munch-Petersen, The Strategy of Phoney War (Stockholm: Militärhistoriska Förlaget, 1981). 9. Churchill, The Second World War, I, p. 463. 10. See Richard Wiggan, Hunt the Altmark (London: Hale, 1982). 11. TMI, Tome XV, Déposition de l’amiral Raeder, 17 May 1946 cited by Kersaudy, p. 44. 12. Kersaudy, p. 81. 13. Johannes Andenæs, Olav Riste and Magne Skodvin, Norway and the Second World War (Oslo: Aschehoug, 1966), p. -
Claremen & Women in the Great War 1914-1918
Claremen & Women in The Great War 1914-1918 The following gives some of the Armies, Regiments and Corps that Claremen fought with in WW1, the battles and events they died in, those who became POW’s, those who had shell shock, some brothers who died, those shot at dawn, Clare politicians in WW1, Claremen courtmartialled, and the awards and medals won by Claremen and women. The people named below are those who partook in WW1 from Clare. They include those who died and those who survived. The names were mainly taken from the following records, books, websites and people: Peadar McNamara (PMcN), Keir McNamara, Tom Burnell’s Book ‘The Clare War Dead’ (TB), The In Flanders website, ‘The Men from North Clare’ Guss O’Halloran, findagrave website, ancestry.com, fold3.com, North Clare Soldiers in WW1 Website NCS, Joe O’Muircheartaigh, Brian Honan, Kilrush Men engaged in WW1 Website (KM), Dolores Murrihy, Eric Shaw, Claremen/Women who served in the Australian Imperial Forces during World War 1(AI), Claremen who served in the Canadian Forces in World War 1 (CI), British Army WWI Pension Records for Claremen in service. (Clare Library), Sharon Carberry, ‘Clare and the Great War’ by Joe Power, The Story of the RMF 1914-1918 by Martin Staunton, Booklet on Kilnasoolagh Church Newmarket on Fergus, Eddie Lough, Commonwealth War Grave Commission Burials in County Clare Graveyards (Clare Library), Mapping our Anzacs Website (MA), Kilkee Civic Trust KCT, Paddy Waldron, Daniel McCarthy’s Book ‘Ireland’s Banner County’ (DMC), The Clare Journal (CJ), The Saturday Record (SR), The Clare Champion, The Clare People, Charles E Glynn’s List of Kilrush Men in the Great War (C E Glynn), The nd 2 Munsters in France HS Jervis, The ‘History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers 1861 to 1922’ by Captain S. -
'The Admiralty War Staff and Its Influence on the Conduct of The
‘The Admiralty War Staff and its influence on the conduct of the naval between 1914 and 1918.’ Nicholas Duncan Black University College University of London. Ph.D. Thesis. 2005. UMI Number: U592637 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Dissertation Publishing UMI U592637 Published by ProQuest LLC 2013. Copyright in the Dissertation held by the Author. Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ProQuest LLC 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 CONTENTS Page Abstract 4 Acknowledgements 5 Abbreviations 6 Introduction 9 Chapter 1. 23 The Admiralty War Staff, 1912-1918. An analysis of the personnel. Chapter 2. 55 The establishment of the War Staff, and its work before the outbreak of war in August 1914. Chapter 3. 78 The Churchill-Battenberg Regime, August-October 1914. Chapter 4. 103 The Churchill-Fisher Regime, October 1914 - May 1915. Chapter 5. 130 The Balfour-Jackson Regime, May 1915 - November 1916. Figure 5.1: Range of battle outcomes based on differing uses of the 5BS and 3BCS 156 Chapter 6: 167 The Jellicoe Era, November 1916 - December 1917. Chapter 7. 206 The Geddes-Wemyss Regime, December 1917 - November 1918 Conclusion 226 Appendices 236 Appendix A. -
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THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS A Publication of the Foreign Policy Research Institute GREAT WAR AT SEA: REMEMBERING THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND by John H. Maurer May 2016 13 FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS, NO. 13 GREAT WAR AT SEA: REMEMBERING THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND BY JOHN H. MAURER MAY 2016 www.fpri.org 1 THE PHILADELPHIA PAPERS ABOUT THE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Founded in 1955 by Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, FPRI is a non-partisan, non-profit organization devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. In the tradition of Strausz-Hupé, FPRI embraces history and geography to illuminate foreign policy challenges facing the United States. In 1990, FPRI established the Wachman Center, and subsequently the Butcher History Institute, to foster civic and international literacy in the community and in the classroom. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John H. Maurer is a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He also serves as the Alfred Thayer Mahan Professor of Sea Power and Grand Strategy at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone, and do not represent the settled policy of the Naval War College, the Department of the Navy, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. Foreign Policy Research Institute 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610 • Philadelphia, PA 19102-3684 Tel. 215-732-3774 • Fax 215-732-4401 FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE 2 Executive Summary This essay draws on Maurer’s talk at our history institute for teachers on America’s Entry into World War I, hosted and cosponsored by the First Division Museum at Cantigny in Wheaton, IL, April 9-10, 2016. -
HMS Drake, Church Bay, Rathlin Island
Wessex Archaeology HMS Drake, Church Bay, Rathlin Island Undesignated Site Assessment Ref: 53111.02r-2 December 2006 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES IN RELATION TO THE PROTECTION OF WRECKS ACT (1973) HMS DRAKE, CHURCH BAY, RATHLIN ISLAND UNDESIGNATED SITE ASSESSMENT Prepared by: Wessex Archaeology Portway House Old Sarum Park Salisbury Wiltshire SP4 6EB Prepared for: Environment and Heritage Service Built Heritage Directorate Waterman House 5-33 Hill St Belfast BT1 2LA December 2006 Ref: 53111.02r-2 © Wessex Archaeology Limited 2006 Wessex Archaeology Limited is a Registered Charity No.287786 HMS Drake: Undesignated Site Assessment Wessex Archaeology 53111.02r-2 HMS DRAKE, CHURCH BAY, RATHLIN ISLAND UNDESIGNATED SITE ASSESSMENT Ref.: 53111.02r-2 Summary Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Environment and Heritage Service: Built Heritage Directorate, to undertake an Undesignated Site Assessment of the wreck of HMS Drake. The site is located in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, Northern Ireland, at latitude 55º 17.1500′ N, longitude 06° 12.4036′ W (WGS 84). The work was undertaken as part of the Contract for Archaeological Services in Relation to the Protection of Wrecks Act (1973). Work was conducted in accordance with a brief that required WA to locate archaeological material, provide an accurate location for the wreck, determine the extent of the seabed remains, identify and characterise the main elements of the site and assess the remains against the non-statutory criteria for designation. Diving operations took place between 28th July and 5th August 2006. In addition to the diver assessment a limited desk-based assessment has been undertaken in order to assist with the interpretation and reporting of the wreck. -
UNESCO Press Kit
SAFEGUARDING THE WORLD’S UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE On the Occasion of the Centenary of World War I UNESCO Press Kit Centenary of World War I UNESCO draws attention to the need to protect the submerged heritage of World War I World War I did not only take place in trenches. An important part of the conflict was fought at sea, either on the surface or - and this was a first – under water. The wrecks of ships and submarines that have sunk during the conflict therefore present today an invaluable information source. Their hulls contain a snapshot of history that has not been the subject of sufficient research so far. These wrecks also serve as custodians of the memory of the thousands of people who have lost their lives there. This fragile heritage that lies at the bottom of the oceans now enters the scope of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. The Convention designates underwater cultural heritage as “all traces of human existence having a cultural, historical or archaeological character which have been partially or totally under water, periodically or continuously, for at least 100 years.” From 2014 onwards, ships, cruisers, ocean liners, and destroyers sunk during the war will fall under the scope of the Convention. Also, UNESCO will organize in occasion of the Centenary of the First World War a scientific conference on underwater heritage of WWI to be held in Bruges, Belgium 26-28 June, 2014, with the support of the Government of Flanders. The support of Flanders is given in the framework of the country’s commemorative project ‘The Great War Centenary (2014-18)’, giving tribute to the fact that Flanders was a central battlefield during the war.