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Remembering HMS Conway This document is a snapshot of content from a discontinued BBC website, originally published between 2002-2011. It has been made available for archival & research purposes only. Please see the foot of this document for Archive Terms of Use. 27 February 2012 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage Wales Home Remembering HMS Conway Last updated: 06 April 2009 Former cadets of HMS Conway swap tales at the opening of a more from this section new exhibition about the naval training school on the edge of BBC Local History the Menai Strait. Maritime memories North West Wales Broadcasting Things to do Family history Celtic heritage People & Places The school was originally based onboard the HMS Conway, Castles Nature & Outdoors People in History moored in the Menai Strait, but more use of the school's base History Industrial heritage at Plas Newydd was made after the ship was destroyed in a Religion & Ethics Telford's legacy fire in 1953. The Romans Arts & Culture Black History Music The National Trust have put together an HMS Conway World War II TV & Radio Abolition of slavery exhibition in Plas Newydd coffee shop, formerly the school Restoration Local BBC Sites mess room, where some of the 'Old Conways' gathered for More treasures News the opening and reminisced about their schooldays. Useful links Sport Weather Elfed Roberts from Perth, Australia (1951-53) related www links Travel HMS Conway Most of the boys from my Neighbouring Sites Mid Wales home village of Abersoch more from North West North East Wales wanted to go to sea. I got the Wales first scholarship offered by Related BBC Sites Caernarfon County Council to Wales Traffic and Travel attend HMS Conway when I Getting around Cymru was 14. I hadn't really left Take the train, boat or Gogledd Orllewin Pen Llyn before coming here; plane, or hit the region's roads. it was a bit of a shock. About this site Even though there were boys from all over the world - Newsletter Australia, America, Hong Kong - it was an English school. Keep up-to-date with There were about 12 of us from the area, but others didn't changes on the website really like us to speak Welsh. every week. Arts I happened to be on the ship when she went aground. I was Be inspired hauling ropes on the tugs which were pulling her from Plas Release your creativity with Newydd to Bangor for a refit. The tides are extremely strong a look at local art and in the Menai, so we'd waited 10 minutes for the right time to artists. pull her between the bridges. But the tide suddenly changed on us in the most dangerous part of the Strait and there wasn't enough power in the tugs to pull her off the sand. Tai Hanesyddol O blastai crand i ffermydd Only half of her was stuck, but when the tide went down, gwledig, camwch dros drothwy rhai o dai mwyaf there was nothing to support her back half and she broke her hanesyddol yr ardal back. So when the tide rose again, she didn't lift; water poured in and we had to get to work removing files and paperwork from the offices. We hauled everything up through the trees on the Caernarfon side of the Strait. Because it was too dangerous to move her, the Conway stayed where she was until she went on fire some months later. No one seems to know how she was set on fire; it's a mystery to this day. It was a weird feeling returning to school without the ship being there. They built huts on the Plas Newydd land and having the stableblock for classrooms was actually better, but we did miss training onboard ship. I particularly remember Officer Brooke-Smith. Everyone really liked him. He'd never get stressed about anything. I remember climbing the mast for the first time and there he was, standing about 40 feet up on the part where you've got to climb out over the rigging. He had on his smartest shoes, uniform, cap and glasses and was just holding on with one hand, helping the boys climb up with the other. I didn't have a great time here, but you always look back more fondly on your schooldays. There are Conway boys all over the world. I settled in Perth, Australia, working as a ship's pilot, and we've got an HMS Conway group over there. The relationship with the old school is still very strong. More memories of life at HMS Conway Take a picture tour of HMS Conway 27 February 2012 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage Wales Home Remembering HMS Conway Last updated: 06 April 2009 Mervyn Thomas from Rhos-on-Sea (1958-61) more from this section BBC Local I won a scholarship from History Maritime memories North West Wales Friars Grammar School when I Broadcasting Things to do was 14. Even though I came Family history Celtic heritage People & Places from Bangor, I was only allowed to go home once a Castles Nature & Outdoors term. But they were definitely People in History History Industrial heritage the best days of my life. Religion & Ethics Telford's legacy The Romans Arts & Culture The executive branch, in their Black History Music uniforms, would teach us World War II TV & Radio Abolition of slavery maritime studies and the academic branch would make sure Restoration Local BBC Sites we kept up with our education. And there was a lot of sport. More treasures News There's a saying though that Conway cadets were great Useful links Sport seamen but lousy academics. Weather related www links Travel Saying that, the Poet Laureate John Masefield was a Conway HMS Conway boy, as well as Iain Duncan Smith, the ex-leader of the Neighbouring Sites Mid Wales Conservative Party, and England rugby coach Clive more from North West North East Wales Woodward. Wales Related BBC Sites And every transatlantic ocean liner has been commanded by Wales In Pictures a Conway boy - except for the Titanic, which says something! Slideshows Cymru Our A-Z takes in everything Gogledd Orllewin Captain Matthew Webb who swam the Channel was also a from aerial views to zoos. Conway cadet. He sadly died trying to swim across Niagara Useful links Falls. Last Sunday we had a commemorative service for Let us guide you Lieutenant Ian Frazer, who won the VC for getting his sub The web at a glance for right underneath a Japanese battleship during World War II. Gwynedd, Conwy and Anglesey. Each Friday night girls from St Winifred's and Bangor Girls Grammar were bussed in for dancing lessons. It was part of Your Say Talking points our training to be officers to learn how to dance, use the Share your views, gripes correct cutlery and have good manners. and passions and make your voice heard. I remember getting my name in the punishments book for being caught 'snogging in class' by some prefects. That makes it sound as though I was snogging a male classmate, when in actual fact I was caught taking a girl to an empty classroom after the dancing for a good-night kiss. Sardinia: Cymry yn They just didn't quite write it up properly! 'ddiogel' Pontio: Dim prif Some of the boys would also take a boat over to Port weithredwr Dinorwic each day to pick up the masters who lived over there. But sometimes we'd deliberately run the boat ashore as the tide was coming down. The girls would go to Orme's Café at the end of the jetty at that time, so we'd have to stay until the tide came up to return to school. Captain Don Houghton (1953-55) I came from just up the road in Benllech. We were allowed out on certain days and I'd take my friends to my house for a bit of a feast. I was in seventh heaven with all the sport here and didn't pay too much attention to my studies. I rowed, ran, played in the first XI and first XV. Rugby was almost like a religion here and being in the first XV had certain benefits. Captain Hewett was quite enamoured with the rugby team and the others said we were the favourites. We definitely got looked after. I carried on at sea for ten years before leaving because I had trouble with my eyes. I went into education and my time here definitely stood me in good stead as a headmaster. My life was set up by being here and I'm now chair of the Conway Merchant Navy Trust. We sponsor young people with good A-level results to go on to gain a degree in nautical studies. Richard Bleakley from Llandudno (1957-1959) I was 14 when I came here from John Bright Grammar School. My mother wanted to send me away to school; it was a choice between King William on the Isle of Man, too far; Rydal, too near; or HMS Conway. We only ever played soccer at John Bright though, so when we came here, it was strictly rugby, which was horrible for the first term. But I soon got into the first XV and really enjoyed it. The juniors lived in Plas Newydd. Then, as seniors, we went to the huts, up by the entrance where the car park is today. We were cut off from the Marquis of Anglesey's quarters of course - we weren't allowed on the lawns round the front, only round the back.
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