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HMS Montrose’S Most Trusted Families’ Newsletter April / May 2020 │No 0000015 Only 0.500 BHD to Subscribers 4.5 Shoot Trials day for the gunnery team ‘Royals’ Takes Aim THE ROSE HMS Montrose’s most trusted families’ newsletter April / May 2020 │No 0000015 Only 0.500 BHD to subscribers RMBT Take aim ‘Four Five Engage’ 4.5’ Medium Range Gun put New Year, to the test new Minekeeping Montrose on routine operations with Blyth, starKJt Brocklesby, Ledbury and Shoreham. Award winning chefs keep waist lines in check Port Out, A Message from Starboard Home the Captain in Plymouth and Yeovilton, A very warm welcome to trialsOn ,a moreradar personaltrials, ‘Actionlevel, A very warm welcome to core training continues for Firstly, I hope this finds you readying ourselves to IssueIssue 15 15 of of ‘The ‘The Rose’, Rose’, the the Messing’ (where the chefs do safe and well. COVID-19 deploy again to the Middle Official Newsletter of HMS ‘ready,our ship’s steady, company, cook for with 200 a Official Newsletter of HMS number of the junior ranks, has impacted on all of us East. A lot has happened in MONTROSE.MONTROSE. As As you you can can people) and that is just the but I am truly grateful for the past 7-weeks but the two imagine the current global tipnow of the with iceberg Autumn. 19’s imagine the current global deployment under their belt, your support in enabling main themes have been; pandemicpandemic causedcaused by by your nearest and dearest to keeping us safe from the COVID-19 has brought Ontaking a more charge personal and bringing level, COVID-19 has brought on the next generation of deploy on global operations unintended transmission of challengeschallenges to tous us all all and and as as core training has been vast at with the Ship. In being able COVID and preparing you will read through this everyHMS levelMONTROSE for the Port.Ship’s It you will read through this is safe to say that by the end to do this has been a ourselves to deliver on issueissue of of ‘The ‘The Rose’ Rose’ this this has has Company. Those who have massive team effort – you operations, as we have done been no different for the beenof May here HMS beforeMONTROSE are been no different for the Port will be firmly all are firmly part of that time and again. CrewsCrews of of HMSHMS integrating the 22% change team; thank you. MONTROSE. I hope that overcemented of new in personnel; the region thusonce MONTROSE. That is why again with the assurance of The first 3-weeks consisted asas you you read read this this newsletter newsletter training the next generation Additionally when I talk to of isolation and quarantine, you will recognise the sheer ofNaval MONTROSE. Command, after 3 you will recognise the sheer weeks of assessments, that my Ship’s Company of the final 4-weeks has been efforteffort and deterdeterminationmination that some of the great things that training. In both aspects, that has been required, by Finally,we are we here ha veand commenced back ready has been required, by all, to to deliver on operations members of the albeit very different, the all,enable to HMSenable MONTROSE HMS a Fleet Time Support Period. ‘MONTROSE family’ are sailors and marines of HMS MONTROSE to remain on Thisonce is again. essentially a ‘MOT to remain on task, achieving at home, during MONTROSE have been task,protecting prot ectingthe Nation’sthe and Full service’ for the this testing time, it is hard exceptional. They have Nation’sInterests. Interests. Ship. Due to current COVID not to be impressed. overcome the challenges measures the external Whether you are on the faced, run the gauntlet of ThisThis issue issue looks looks at atwhat what support we have come to frontline with the NHS, pressure thrown at them and HMS MONTROSE has rely on to assist, are no HMS MONTROSE has volunteering to support come out the other side (yet beenbeen able able to toachieve achieve in the longer available and it is a those in need of assistance, again) a fully functioning nearly two months since we whole ship effort so that we home-educating due to the operational warship; made departed the UK. It can get back to operations in closures of schools or only possible by the quality includes, isolation, a sustainable state. shielding to remain safe – of its people. quarantine, fire exercises, you are all in our thoughts. multiple gunnery shoots (of It is safe to say that in the ready, steady, cook turned As ever, thank you for your everyup to calibre11), and of that weapon), is just the last 7-weeks we have It will not be lost on any of continued support to battle damage exercises, achieved a lot….read on to tip of the iceberg as to what you that seven weeks ago, allowing such capability to transitsHMS ofMontrose strategic Portchoke has find out more, but I feel we re-formed and re- be made possible. Stay safe; points (Strait of Hormuz), there is a lot more still to achieved since taking grouped keep in contact and again, differingownership operating of the routines,ship at the come! many thanks for all you do Royal Marines flying operations, sonar start of the month. whilst we are away. Ollie tackle targets Comment Facility (UKNSF) and be MONTROSE handing over Command systems, to Monthly tested for COVID at the end with Starboard, safe in the stripping wires and re- of the period. knowledge that both Crews rigging communications were ‘COVID free’. boxes so that Command and Overview Strange and testing times Control could be articulated Part 1: Isolation for both crews! Instead of Part 2: Operational accordingly to the crew. handing over the ship and Assurance HMS MONTROSE Four days later and HMS Logistics was no different. This issue’s Monthly Starboard Crew still MONTROSE were now the Their tests varied massively. Overview starts a little embarked, the Ship returned custodians of the Ship, In the galley, feeding 227 before April. A letter from to sea to continue executing ready to proceed on task people in under 45 minutes the CO was sent to all HMS the operational tasking within the Arabian Gulf and (including all of the MONTROSE Port Crew in required from her. Gulf of Oman. washing up.) To supplying late March saying that due pivotal parts and stores of to the outbreak of COVID- For Port Crew, confined to To mention, during all of who ever requested them – 19 in the United Kingdom quarantine in an this the crew were joined by cue “Action Logistics”. On the decision had been made accommodation block, it a team from the Surface the other end of the that all HMS MONTROSE required people to get Flotilla (SURFLOT), and spectrum, the medical team Port would return to HMS creative. MA Potts began Flag Officer Sea Training were fighting hard in DRAKE, a week later Once running an isolation (FOST) who after enduring exercising to save lives, there we would begin our competition for Port Crew isolation with everyone then dealing with causality isolation phase to combat to keep busy whilst in provide the training, and scenarios. and protect against COVID. lockdown. This included ultimately the green light to The aim; to ensure that quizzes, fitness challenges say that we were once again Fighting hard against the HMS MONTROSE Port (run by our Physical ready to conduct operations. simulated battle was the could return to Bahrain in as training Instructor (known Thus began 3 weeks of an Warfare Department. Their known ‘COVID State’ as as Clubs), and a creative Operational Assurance Visit assurance package consisted they could be. Everyone challenge. The creative (OAV) and Theatre of continual assessments of was showing agility and challenge caught people’s Integration and Weapons emulated attacks, very real flexibility in adapting to the attention, with a number of Training (TIWT). replenishment at sea (like pandemic and the National video entries recreating filling your car up from lockdown that we were all Aladdin, or the Pixar lamp During this period the team another car on the enduring. animation using what they were put through their motorway), flying serials to could find in their paces, being tested keep the ship and aircrew in Fast forward one week and accommodation as props or unilaterally across date for aviation and also the crew found themselves costumes. These were all departments. The making the big gun go bang en route to Bahrain, ready hosted on a Defence Mechanical Engineers in to prove accuracy and for handover with Starboard Connect page (like particular were being precision. crew, to sail into operations Facebook circa 2008), for quizzed daily (even hourly) once again. the Ship’s Company to keep on their system knowledge. Overall, HMS MONTROSE informed of information. What they would do in the Port had returned to Bahrain Unfortunately, just as with The page also had daily event of a break down of an after whirlwind 7-weeks. In the UK, Bahraini work outs from Clubs, and a engine? What they would a particularly uncertain Government regulations Vlog from the Chaplain to do if the ship lost all world the one certainty, that were in a state of flux. No keep everyone in the right steering? Or more routinely, is evident, is that Port Crew sooner had everyone landed headspace and general on their daily working and were back onboard and once into the country the information to ensure we engineering practices. again ready to deliver on direction came through that stayed connected. operations as the Royal all foreign personnel The Weapons engineers Navy’s Forward deployed entering the country would Finally after one week of would be tested on their Frigate; HMS MONTROSE have to isolate for two group isolation in the UK, ability to deal with battle remains at the tip of the weeks.
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