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Where’s your next function? SNOBS DISCOTHEQUE Will you be getting A stylish City Centre venue suitable for functions from □ A GREAT ATMOSPHERE? 50 to 300 people: licensed till 2 a.m. and available for exclusive private hire Sunday, Monday, Tuesday or □ PLEASANT SURROUNDINGS? Wednesday. Snobs is also available on Saturdays from □ HNE CATERING? 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with free admission to our Disco □ HIGH QUALITY ENTERTAINMENT? from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. for your guests. □ VALUE FOR MONEY? FIESTA SUITE Don’t take the chance A great atmosphere is assured at the Fiesta for functions insist on the BEST . . . from 200 to 700 people. Available for private hire any Sunday, Monday or Tuesday until 2 a.m. SNOBS and FIESTA can be combined on any of these days for up to 1,000 people.
MANHATTAN SUITE Our new Functions Suite in the City Centre available for your next Firms Dance, Social Night or Presentation Evening for Parties of 200 + any Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Late Bars, Full Catering Facilities, Live Bands, Cabaret and our Resident DJ.s are available by prior arrangement.
We can provide Discos, Bands, Cabaret, Catering, in fact, anything to make your next Firm’s Dance, Social Evening, Presentation Night, Anniversary or Wedding go with a swing in pleasant surroundings and, above all, a great atmosphere. Phone GERRY MARSH or DEBBY Fiesta Entertainment Centre, Mayflower Street, WATERS on 220077 for details of the special offers for Plymouth Tel. (0752) 20077 ships company dances. GENERAL INFORMATION To help you find your way just follow the colour-coded signpost system. BLUE signs point to the ships and the dockyard area; BHina GREEN signs to the lawn display and exhibition hall; RED signs to the car parks and exits. Sailors and Wrens will be stationed at various points in the Navy Days area to help you. Please ask them for any GUIDES information you want. Children up to the age of five may be left at the nursery in HMS NWYUWS Drake Sick Bay free of charge (See map). Lost Children should be taken to the nursery in HMS Drake Sick Bay (See map). Members of the Royal Navy's Medical Staff and St John's FIRST AID Ambulance Brigade will be on duty in the Navy Days area (See map). 9.30am—Gates open, ships 1pm to 1.30pm and 4.20pm to Facilities are provided throughout the Navy Days area as LEFT large items of hand baggage are not permitted on board the open. 5pm—Natwest Jazz Band. LUGGAGE ships (See map). 10.15am— Hot Air Balloon. 1.30pm and 4pm— Ministry of Smoking is allowed. But in a few places-marked by signs- 11.20am to 12 noon— Natwest Defence Police Dog Display. visitors are requested NOT to smoke. Please be very careful Jazz Band (pavilion) everywhere to extinguish matches and cigarettes before throwing them away. Noon and 5pm—Lawn Display 6.30pm—Area Clear.
Cameras may be brought into the Navy Days area, but it is regretted that no close photography of ships can be allowed. CAMERAS Out-of-doors photography is permitted in HMS Drake. Cameras are not allowed on board nuclear submarines. Lost property can be handed in at any left luggage point, at the LOST Navy Days control bus next to the Lawn, or to any MoD PROPERTY policeman. Enquiries should be addressed to the Navy Days Office, HMS Drake, Plymouth. Souvenirs are on sale at various points around the dockyard YOUR GUIDE TO NAVY DAYS and in the Exhibition Hall. Books and posters will be on sale SOUVENIRS in the hall. (See map).
The Frigate Refit Complex is situated apart from the main Navy Ships open for inspection...... 5-25 FRIGATE REFIT Days area, and a free bus service is available to take visitors there COMPLEX (See map). Map of the Dockyard...... 26-27 Exhibition H a ll...... 28-31, 35-37, 41-43 Our advertising material and programme have to be prepared well in advance of the event, and we apologise for any Dockyard Exhibition...... 32-33 unavoidable changes but hope that these will not spoil your River Display...... 38-39 enjoyment of Navy Days. Lawn Display...... 45 Visitors are warned that no liability can be accepted by the Ministry River T rip s ...... 47 VISITORS of Defence or its agents for any accidents, loss, injury or damage sustained on Government property, however caused. General information...... 50
Navy Days has been organised by Lt. Cdr. Neil Anstis RN 50 Welcome to Navy Days
A message from Vice-Admiral for the first time and, also for the Sir Robert Gerken, KCB, CBE, first time, the superbly trained Royal Flag Officer Plymouth and Ministry of Defence Police dogs Naval Port Admiral, Devonport. will be giving demonstrations on the lawn. Auxiliary I AND all those taking part, There is certainly plenty to see welcome you to Plymouth Navy and do at Plymouth Navy Days Service Days 1986 and trust that you will this year and I hope that your visit have an interesting and enjoyable today will help you to share the visit to Her Majesty’s Naval Base, pride of all those taking part, Devonport. coming as they do from a wide Once again we have a wide THE Royal Naval Auxiliary Service trains information you can contact: The Area variety of ships for you to board volunteers—men and women—in their Naval Auxiliary Officer, Officer of the Flag and inspect, superb, action-packed spare time to support the Royal Navy in Officer, Plymouth, Mount Wise, displays on the river and the lawn their local area in the naval control of Devonport PLl 4JH. as well as some highly interesting merchant shipping and in the defence of anchorages and ports. The RNXS crew the coastal training craft and informative exhibitions in the Volunteers come from all walks of life such as the XSV Example, pictured. Drill Shed—not to mention the and there are shore duties, com Capable of speeds up to 22 knots, the new vast Frigate Refit Complex which munications and operations tasks—as well class has added a new dimension to the is open as part of HM Dockyard’s as an afloat element. RNXS afloat capabilities. Example’s sister Applicants must be aged between 18 and ship, the Explorer, will be taking part in the vital contribution to the success of 60, 55 for afloat work. For further river display. Navy Days. In order that Navy Days can be enjoyed by the whole family we Exeter Flotilla Royal Maritime have added a number of new AFTER World War Two a unit of the Royal Auxiliary Service attractions for 1986: a supervised range of organisations both in the Navy Volunteer (Supplementary) Reserve was re-established in Exeter. When that THE Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service chil^dren’s amusements and play Armed Services and the many reserve was disbanded in 1965 it was forms the major part of the Marine Services are;^ is conveniently sited on the civilian bodies that make up the decided with Ministry of Defence approval organisation which supports the Royal main lawn, close to the bar, and rich tapestry of life in the South to carry on as an association of officers Navy. there is a new “cream tea’’ area. West. A most important point to with membership open to reserve and It provides a versatile, flexible and cost- retired officers of the Royal Navy and effective service which includes: harbour Catering is further improved by be pondered: last year we raised at Royal Marines. The Exeter Flotilla was tugs and pilots to assist ships of the Fleet opening one of the Dockyard’s Plymouth Navy Days alone more born. when berthing and unberthing; delivering main restaurants for excellent than £96,000 for Maritime In the 1960s the flotilla’s membership fuel, water and victualling stores with value sit-down meals. Charities which provides a vital was around 20, but it now stands at more purpose-built vessels and craft to ships in For the more intrepid visitors contribution to the well-being of than 240. Members are proud that the harbour; transporting ammunition; ferry membership annual subscription is only ing personnel to and from ships at anchor there are helicopter flights many seafaring folk and their £1—and has been for more than 20 years or secured to buoys, and providing proyiding a very different view of families. with no signs of an increase. specially designed vessels for other tasks the ships and Naval Base. The new Thank you for coming today, Should any reserve or retired officers be such as moorings and salvage, torpedo headquarters and diver training your understanding and support interested in joining the flotilla, they recovery, underwater research and should contact the secretary at Wood development and degaussing. tank of the Plymouth Clearance are vital in the fulfilment of our peckers, 15 North View Road, Budleigh These support operations are carried out Diving Team is open to the public tasks. Salterton, Devon. EX9 6BZ. mainly in UK waters and at Gibraltar. 49 nc^aurant HMS ARGONAUT
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HMS Drake Clearance THE task of HMS Drake is to serve the Fleet, both operational and refitting. While diving team the Dockyard refits the ships, Drake pro NAVY DAYS 1986 sees the new diving vides the facilities to support and refresh centre open to the public for the first time. the ships' companies—accommodation, The modern centre is not due to be education, training and sport as well as opened officially until October, but you medical, dental, spiritual and personal can see the centre during your visit unless families services. the facilities are required to deal with an The Royal Navy Barracks were first oc emergency. cupied on June 4, 1889. They were eventu Among the new features are a trials tank ally commissioned as HMS Vivid and re and a large hyper baric section. tained this name until January 20, 1934, The Plymouth Clearance Diving Team is □ Designed from the start to operate from small when they were renamed HMS Drake. responsible to the Flag Officer Plymouth ships in the roughest weather With the introduction of centralised for: Diving in the event of a submarine □ Unequalled flight and deck handling drafting and the dispersal of training, the accident or similar emergency salvage characteristics requirement for a barracks as such ceased, requirements; explosive ordnance disposal □ Robust, reliable, compact and since 1961 HMS Drake has been a shore (EOD) in the Plymouth Command; back-up □ Minimum maintenance establishment and an accounting base for to the Fleet Clearance Diving Team on a LYNX is in service worldwide with the Navies ships refitting in HM Dockyard and for men worldwide basis; demolition training; ship of Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, waiting draft and on course in the various repair and routine maintenance; continu Great Britain, Holland and Norway. instructional schools administered by the ation training for ships' diving teams. Commodore, HMS Drake. The team is mobile with its own road and A major modernisation programme is sea transport and has a diving capability of being undertaken to update accom 55 metres (180 ft). Westland modation, roads and services and to im EOD tasks include dealing with Second Westland Helicopters Limited, Yeovil, England. prove amenties. World War mines in the team's area. 6 Cornwall's *PREM!ER* HMS AMBUSCADE
A ttra c tio n A pioneer In naval design Three times British Tourist Authority THE eighth Royal Navy ship to bear the bine propulsion, the improved accommo award winning ALL WEATHER name HMS Ambuscade completed a dation standards for all the ship’s company family leisure park set in beautiful 15-month restorative refit in Devonport at and the great reduction in complement landscaped gardens... the end of last year. compared with other classes of warships of F lA M S W She successfully carried out post refit sea similar size. trials and work up to April. She is equipped with a comprehensive J VILLAGE yA Since then she has been involved in outfit of warning radars, sonar and gunnery training in the Mediterranean, electronic warfare equipment. Staff College sea days and fleet trials. So far this year the Type 21 frigate has visited Gibraltar, Port Vendres on the French Mediterranean coast and Lisbon. FACTS AND FIGURES HMS Ambuscade was commissioned in Displacement: 3,714 tons ★ BALL POOL I 1975. At the time she represented a signifi Length; 116.8 metres ★ BUMPER BOATS cant advance in many aspects of warship Beam: 12.3 metres ★ BOUNCER TENT ★ VIDEO design. Armaments: Exocet; Seacat; 4.5 inch GAMES^SPACE RANGERS★ LUNAR She is capable of carrying out anti-sub- automatic guns; torpeidoes BUGGIES ★ RADIO CONTROLLED BOATS ★ marine and anti-surface defence of convoys Aircraft: Lynx or Wasp helicopter ★ BOATING LAKE ★ CHILDREN'S PLAY AREAS ★ PICNIC AREAS and has good self-defence capabilities Propulsion: Two Rolls Royce Olympus gas ★ GARDEN CENTRE ★ HYPERGLIDE ★ CAFETERIAS ★ FREE AEROGOLF^ against attack from air, surface and sub turbines, two Rolls Royce Tyne gas tur OPEN EVERY DAY 10a.m.^ ^ for children with admission t surface forces in all weather and sea con bines ( K I ^ Last admissions 5pm. EASTER to end of OCTOBER Tel .Helston(0326)574549/573404 ditions. Speed: In excess of 30 knots DON'T SA VEIT FOR A RAINY DA Y-IT'S FABULOUS WHEN THE SUNSHINES! Notable new features are the all-gas tur Complement: 10 officers, 170 ratings
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A UNIQUE feature of Plymouth Navy Days days before the event each year, and, in is the popular lawn display. This hour-long that short time, produce the performance spectacular takes place twice daily at 12 you will see, a performance unique to noon and 5pm. Plymouth Navy Days. A new event this year is the Training Ship With a sightly more military flavour, the Stirling’s Field Gun competition. These Royal Marines of 3 Commando Brigade will young sea cadets carry out a field gun run be giving a display of unarmed combat. identical to the Royal Tournament Two bands are featured, the Parkstone competition with only slightly scaled- Sea Cadets Band, and Flag Officer down equipment. Plymouth’s Band of the Royal Marines. The Cadets of the Training Ship Royalist will also be giving a display of their skills The evening display culminates in the with their exciting and action-filled Mast beating of the retreat by FO Plymouth’s and Cannon Display. band and a ceremonial sunset. Less noisy, and with a different kind of Separate from the main lawn display, but skill, the Girls Nautical Training Contingent in the same arena, the Ministry of Defence will be dancing the traditional hornpipe, police dog display team will be performing always a great favourite. twice daily. The team was only recently The girls meet for the first time just a few formed and in its first season. 45 SEA CHARTERS HMS BRAVE DAWLISH 865141/EXETER 214575 HYDROGRAPHICAL SURVEYING AND POLLUTION SURVEYING -ALL TYPES OF VESSEL FOR CHARTER- LATEST EDITION
92' TYPE “TIGER BAY” CAPTURED FROM THE ARGENTINIANS IN THE FALKLANDS NOW WORKING IN THIS AREA Ultra-modern frigate with a mighty punch HMS BRAVE is the newest warship in to detect submarines at considerable dis NEARLY READY FOR THE SEA the Navy. tances and to control their destruction by She is the seventh Type 22 frigate, the torpedoes launched from the ship’s own third “stretched” ship in Batch 2—but she Lynx helicopter. WATCH TV—AND NAVY DAYS has some notable firsts too. She is the first Royal Navy ship fitted with Spey engines for more economical FACTS AND FIGURES FOR YOUR LIVE cruising. She is the first to have the new Displacement: 4,900 tons lightweight Seawolf close range air defence Length: 148.1 nnetres ENTERTAINMENT system. Brave is also the first with a hangar Beam: 14.8 metres and a flight deck large enough to take the Armaments: Four Exocet MM 38 missile M s t r d EH 101 helicopter being jointly developed launchers; one Seawolf double-headed THE by Britain and Italy. system; two triple STWS 2 torpedo 27 Princess Street CHERRY HMS Brave is undergoing extensive trials, tubes; two 40/60 Bofors guns Plymouth Tel 673000 TREE mostly in home waters, but there has been Aircraft: one or two Lynx helicopters time for a visit to Lowestoft to forge links Propulsion: two Rolls Royce Spey SM1A s with the Waveney district of Suffolk which gas turbines; two Rolls Royce T.yne Pennycross, Plymouth. “Lunches & Dinners has “adopted” her. RM1C gas turbines; David Brown non Thursday, Friday, HMS Brave, which is designed for an reversing gearboxes leading to control everyday at Mo’s” Saturday & Sunday anti-submarine role, is fitted with the most lable pitch propellers COMPLETE Nights. MEAL modern computer-controlled passive sonar Speed: 28 knots device, the towed array. This enables her Complement: 250 44 EXHIBITION HALL Bodmin Whistle, Siren and Horn Museum THE Bodmin Whistle, Siren and Horn collection of L/Stwd Humble, RN, who Museum is not yet open to the public, but started his work in the 1960s when he work is continuing and it should open its bought a small locomotive whistle from a doors within the next year. scrapyard for less than ten shillings (50p). It will be based at Bodmin General The collection now numbers 900 and Station and will house the largest collection includes items ranging from a police of its type in the United Kingdom. whistle to the air horns from the carrier The exhibits at the museum, on the HMS Eagle weighing about half a ton each. Bodmin to Wonford Railway, are the
First Day Covers PHILATELISTS visiting Navy Days Days—and the others have become will not be able to resist the special collectors’ items. First Day Covers on sale throughout But the covers are not just for the the naval base. experts. They also make a wonderful The covers have been designed by souvenir of your visit to Devonport. semi-retired Exeter builder Ray And the money goes to a good cause, Marriot. Navy Days charities. This is the fourth year in suc This year’s covers depict HMS Brave cession that Ray has produced a First and HMS Spartan, both on view at Navy wise goddess of the sea Day Cover for Plymouth Navy Days. HMS Minerva is the ninth ship of the Royal The deployment included visits to Navy to bear the name which is derived Bordeaux, Gibraltar, and Menorca before from the Roman Goddess of Wisdom. returning to Devonport to undergo a short Devon and Fleet Air A major refit in 1979 saw the original 4.5 period of maintenance. gun replaced with the Anglo-French missile Cornwall Police Arm Museum Exocet. Minerva is a member of the Seventh THE Devon and Cornwall Constabulary THE Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in Frigate Squadron which consists of seven was formed in 1967 through the amal Somerset has a display of more than 50 Exocet Leanders. Although primarily an FACTS AND FIGURES gamation of the former Plymouth, Exeter, historic aircraft, including Concorde 002, ASW ship she has many other roles. Displacement: 3,200 tons Devon and Cornwall forces. and many specialist exhibitions depicting Since Summer 1985 Minerva has visited Length: 370 feet The merger was part of a national drive the story of naval aviation since 1908. Salford, the Ship’s affiliation town, Beam: 41 feet to streamline the police service and create The latest exhibition, opened by HRH Rotterdam and Liverpool. The New Year Draught: 18 feet forces with sufficient resources to meet Princess Anne, presents 70 years of the saw Minerva take up duty as part of the Aircraft: One Lynx helicopter present-day needs. WRNS and the Fleet. Dartmouth training Squadron and accomp Armament: Exocet surface to surface With 2,700 officers, the force is res anying HMS Invincible on deployment to and Seacat surface to air ponsible for policing an area of 2.5 million Wood carving the West Indies. nnissiles. Anti-submarine acres, more than double the size of many PENSIONER Harry Johnson is well-known Following Easter leave in Devonport, torpedoes; two 40mm and other constabularies. for his beautiful wood carvings, mostly of Minerva completed a short period of Fleet two 20mm guns. The force area extends 180 miles from ships. He retired as a carpenter in the Contingency Ship duties off the coast of Propulsion: Two double reduction the Dorset and Somerset borders in the east mid-1970s but continues with his hobby. Scotland. She was then deployed to the geared turbines, two shafts, 30,000 to the Isles of Scilly in the far west and, at Among his exhibits are the Mary Rose and Mediterranean to take part in a large NATO shaft horse power giving a speed of its widest point, "^5 miles from the South The Eye of the Wind, Francis Drake and Exercise. about 30 knots. Hams to the North Devon coast. Plymouth Hoe. 10 43 BURROWS AND SON PAUL HMS DANAE GOODWILL Second Hand Farm Machinery FIBREGLASS YACHT Bought and Sold Leander class frigate reborn in E9m refit * * * 6ft CANOPY from REPAIRS EIMS DANAE has just completed a £9 looking very much as she does today. She fs ONLY £12 per week Professional Friendly Telephone million refit at Devonport Dockyard which now armed with Exocet surface-to-surface including delivery Service. Lapford (03635) 351 included renewing her hull stiffening, put missiles, homing torpedoes and a Lynx' reductions second week Devon under strain during months of operations helicopter. SUNDIAL SUNBEDS Contact Us On in appalling seas. HMS Danae spent a large part of 1985 on Liskeard 50057 She has since been carrying out sea trials South Atlantic patrol, returning to the UK BUCKFASTLEIGH before beginning her operational sea train via the West Coast of South America, the TOURING 4 3 7 9 6 ing at Portland next month. Panama Canal and the United States. CARAVANS HIRE The Leander class frigate is the sixth ship to bear the name since 1759, when the Fred and Maria Wckomc you British took the first vessel as a prize from FACTS AND FIGURES From £40-£85pw to a friendly almospher at the Class A—with full extras, inc the French. Displacement: 3,000 tons Showers, Fridges, Awning etc. QUEEN AND SPECIALISTS IN REPAIRS French prize ships also provided the next Length: 113 metres Class B—Basic, Inc. Insurance TO ALL DOMESTIC two ships to carry the name. The last Beam: 12.5 metres and Calor Gas. CONSTITUTION REFRIGERATION Danae was a light cruiser built at Newcastle Armaments: Exocet; Seacat; anti-sub Duke street. PLYMOUTH in 1918 which was lent to the Polish Navy marine torpedoes; 2 x 40mm AA guns; Devonport and renamed ORP Conrad during the 2 X 20mm AA guns P M Tourers UK Ltd. REFRIGERATION Second World War. Aircraft: Lynx helicopter W idegates 308. 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Britannia Royai Navai Coiiege Dartmouth UNTIL 1 9 2 1 , cadets entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne, on the Isle of Wight, where they spent two years before coming to Dartmouth to complete their training. Both King Edward VIII and King George VI received their initial naval training at these colleges, as did their brother the Duke of Kent. It was while he was a cadet at Dartmouth in 19 39 that the Duke of Edinburgh first met the Queen who was visiting the college with her parents. More recently Prince Charles and Prince Andrew spent their first months in the Royal Navy under training at the college. After the college was bombed in 1942 the junior cadets were evacuated to Bristol and did not return to Dartmouth for four years. During this period the college buildings were used first by British Combined Operation Forces and later by the United States Advanced amphibious Base, whose occupation is commemorated by two stained glass windows in the chapel. Many American troops sailed out of the Dart for the Normandy beaches in 1944. Now, the age of officers under training varies from 18 to 32 and all branches of the Navy are represented. These include WRNS Officer Cadets, Midshipmen who join the Royal Navy immediately after leaving of courses in strategic studies, foreign school and university graduates who, as languages and economics. Sub-Lieutenants, are entering one of the Graduates with arts degrees receive main specialisations of Seaman, Engineer, instruction in the essential basic scientific TELEPHONE INFORMATION SERVICE Supply and Secretariat or Instructor. principles of technical equipment in ships. The training is aimed at developing As part of their training most officers spend character and leadership potential and also some time at sea. to provide basic knowledge of the Navy Apart from the normal classroom facili and naval professional subjects. ties the college also possesses two patrol PLYMOUTH 664011 Academic training is intended to give all vessels for navigation instruction and more officers who did not go to a university an than a hundred boats varying from the OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 8AM-7PM. (8AM-6.30PM SUNDAYS) understanding of the scientific principles of twin-screw 45-foot motor picket boats to modern naval technology as well as choice ocean-going yachts. 12 41 HAWKINS MOTORS Peugeot Talbot Dealers in SPARTAN THE TIGER CORNWALL. WHITLEIGH - PLYMOUTH Professional Friendly Service. Call us on St Austell (0726) Live entertainment every weekend 822566 and HAYLE GARAGE Lunchtime bar snacks (0736) 753143. always available Such NICE people to Deal With. Within a pleasant and friendly atmosphere 790651 'Courage with endurance' the motto of deep-sea MAC-VAC J HOOKING & SON CHIMNEY Removals & Storage. battleship of the 1980s SWEEP Service Personnel & Civil Professional Service Specially Catered work For . . . guaranteed SPECIAL RATES Full or Part Loads, Any special rates O.A.Ps FOR SERVICEMEN Distance. Free Estimates. Tel: McGregor 69 Beaumont Road, Plymouth Unlimited Mileage, St Judes, P lym ou th . 781023 Wide selection of Tel: 6 6 1 4 6 0 .______Brand New Cars PLYMOUTH 791177 McMULLIN & SON for more details. Member BAR Removals & Storage. Full/Part Loads. Any sBudgets Distance. Free Estimates. rentacar^ 5/6 Southside Street, P lym ou th . SHAW PLYMOUTH Tel: 660874/491036/ 790651 anytime 336202
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Fast, good-looking and a film star HMS BOXER is the first of a new class of HMS Boxer also has an unofficial role— “stretched” Type 22 frigates, being 12 as the Royal Navy’s film star. metres longer than her predecessors. She appears in a successful support She is the latest in Naval design. A feature for the latest Disney movie and a modern warship with a powerful weapon number of RN training films. She is also to fit, built to the most up-to-date standards appear in a popular television programme incorporating many of the lessons learnt in early next year. the Falklands campaign. Boxer has the highest standard of accom Some of Boxer’s extra length comes from modation with messdecks and cabins fully her dramatic new bow shape which pro air conditioned and all the latest design in vides faster and cleaner lines allowing her furniture and fittings. to achieve more than 30 knots despite her She was launched in June 1981. size. And this extra speed does not hamper the tremendous stability for which her class is noted. FACTS AND FIGURES In addition to her impressive array of Displacement: 4,400 tons armaments. Boxer can carry Lynx multi Length: 477 feet role helicopters whose endurance and Beam: 48 feet ability to carry a variety of weapons pro Armaments: Two twin Exocet launchers; vide a significant extension to the ship’s two Seawolf systenns; two triple-barrelled fighting radius. anti-submarine torpedo mountings; two To help the captain control all Boxer’s 40mm Bofors guns weapons is the latest generation of Aircraft: Two Lynx helicopters operations room equipment—the Com Propulsion: Two Rolls Royce Tyne RMIC puter Assisted Command System. gas turbines; two Rolls Royce Olympus This has the ability to collect all the TM3B gas turbines; David Brown non information from the various sensors— reversing gearboxes leading to control radar, sonar and electronic warfare— lable pitch propellers and present the command with a full pic Speed: In excess of 30 knots ture of the threats to the ship. Complement: 250
14 39 AIR AND RIVER DISPLAY HMS BROADSWORD
Fast action, Target helicopters, smoke, and on noise and thrills are targ et some ol the In the ingredients of this Palklands year’s River and Air Display. The hour-long SINCE being in the thick of the fighting spectacular features during the Falklands a Sea Harrier, a conflict HMS Broad Jetstream, five types sw ord has returned to of helicopter. Royal the South Atlantic to Marines raiding complete two patrols. The second Royal squadron, the RNLI Navy ship to bear the lifeboat, the Chinese name, she is an anti junk of the Exeter submarine frigate, Maritime Museum, possessing a first-class missile defence system someone called and an effective anti James Bond, surface vessel pirates, treasure and capability. a damsel in distress. The Type 22 frigate was on passage to HMS Broadsword lowered all boats and Every day at the Persian Gulf when she was diverted to with helicopters set about the harrowing 2.30pm on the river join the South Atlantic Task Force and her task of rescuing survivors. In all 170 of first role was to provide protection for Coventry’s crew were taken on board (See map). HMS Hermes. Broadsword. For the landings at the end of that event ful May, Broadsword’s role was as Escort Commander for the amphibious task group invasion force of the six warships protect ing the landing ships. FACTS AND FIGURES During the fighting her Seawolf missiles Displacement: 4,350 tons claimed two Argentine aircraft while the Length: 428 feet upper deck gun crews, marines and sailors Beam: 48 feet used a mixture of guns to shoot down two Armaments: Four Exocet missile more aircraft and damage two others. launchers; two Seawolf missiles; two On May 25 Broadsword was hit by a 40/60 Bofors guns; two STWS Mk II bomb. It bounced off the sea, crashed triple launchers through the ship’s side and passed up Aircraft: Fitted to carry two Lynx heli through the flight deck. The bomb took off copters the nose of a Lynx helicopter before it fell Propulsion: Two Rolls Royce Olympus gas in the sea and exploded. turbines and two Rolls Royce Tyne gas Minutes later a second wave of aircraft turbines attacked her partner ship HMS Coventry Speed 30 knots which was abandoned after being hit by Complement: 23 officers, 66 senior rates three bombs. and 155 junior rates 15 EXHIBITION HALL RFA TIDESPRING HMS Raleigh THE present HMS Raleigh at Torpoint was new entry training establishment. But the commissioned in January, 1940, as a shore transfer of WRNS basic training from HMS establishment for naval training of seamen Dauntless in 1981, artificer apprentice called up under the Military Training Act of basic training from HMS Fisgard in 1983 1938. and supply and secretariat from HMS In 1944 it served briefly as a US advanced Pembroke also in 1983, has dramatically amphibious base, but four years later it widened the scope of training within became a marine engineering training Raleigh. establishment. . The range of trainees varies from young Seaman-training restarted in 1955. male and female ratings who have just Marine engineering training continued in completed their Part I training to senior Raleigh until 1971 when it was transferred Commanders and Captains who have been to HMS Sultan. appointed to sea in command. Between 1972 and 1978 the establishment Raleigh also provides facilities for youth underwent a major rebuilding period and organisation training courses, such as the can now accept 250 recruits a week in Sea Cadet Corps. It is also the home of the modern and spacious accommodation. Royal Marines Band of the Flag Officer Now Raleigh is primarily regarded as a Plymouth. The fleet Supply and in miniature Transport Veteran of south Georgia MORE than 20 years ago Devon model THE role of the Royal Naval Supply and maker Tony Blatchford decided to begin a Transport Service is to support the Royal RFA TIDESPRING, the remaining unit and a new, more modern navigation project tracing in miniature the develop Navy as an efficient and effective fighting of the improved Tide class of large Fleet bridge. ment of the metal warships of the Royal force, in peace and war, ashore and afloat, Replenishment tankers, was launched in At full speed Tidespring will burn 80 tons Navy. at home and overseas. 1962. of heavy oil in a day. The models are built to a scale of 1/600 This civilian service’s tasks include main Since joining the fleet in the January of Some foreign navy ships still burn the or 50ft/1 inch—largely from photographs. taining armaments and weapons at oper the following year Tidespring has seen ser heavy oil and so to fulfil NATO commit Plans are used only when readily available. ational readiness; supplying spares; general vice all around the world. ments Tidespring can offer a variety of rigs The basic materials Tony uses are stores and fuel for the ships; and clothing She was part of the force which recar>- and couplings which enable her to refuel wood—generally deal or yellow pine— and victualling officers and crew. tured the island of South Georgia during warships of any of the NATO or Common Plastikard and wire. Staff serve at Ministry of Defence head which both of her Wessex helicopters were wealth countries with whatever fuel they There are now about 270 models on quarters in London and Bath, at the Dock lost in the attempt to lift SAS troops from require. display, being added-to at a rate of about yards, at numerous bases in the UK and the Fortuna glacier in a blizzard. 20 a year. Gibraltar, and afloat in the ships of the More recently Tidespring has completed FACTS AND FIGURES It is thought that a further 50 or 60 ships Royal Eleet Auxiliary Service. These are a five-month patrol in the Gulf of Oman as Displacement; 27,440 tons should complete the collection from 1870 crewed by Merchant Navy officers and part of the force looking after British ship Length: 583 feet to date. ratings but managed by the RNSTS. ping in that war-torn area. Beam: 71 feet Three years ago it was decided to include During this patrol Tidespring was in Armaments: 2 x 20mm Oerlikon guns; 2 x vessels of the Supply and Transport Service. Twenty-one ships of the RFA service company with HMS Broadsword and HMS 7.62mm machine guns A small portion of this fleet-in-miniature were deployed to support the Fleet and Cardiff and together the ships steamed a Aircraft: Hangar space for two Sea King can be seen regularly at Military Modelling Land Forces during the Falklands War and total of 27,000 miles and carried out 66 helicopters and charity shows in the West Country were in the forefront throughout. 250 refuellings. Propulsion: Steam turbine throughout the year. The complete members of the RNSTS served in the RFA In recent refits Tidespring has been Speed; 17 knots collection can only be seen at Dartmouth ships and in the merchant ships taken up modified extensively and now has satellite Complement: 110 (160 with flight person Naval College Open Day and, of course, from trade and converted and are entitled communications and navigation equipment nel) every year at Plymouth Navy Days. to wear the South Atlantic Medal. 16 37 EXHIBITION HALL Royal Naval Hospital COMPLETED in 1762, the design of the the range and depth of training has TAMAR
• FARES FROM JUST £14 SINGLE / £19 RETURN ♦ Command Logistic Regiment Tel: PLYMOUTH (0752) 674000 THE Commando Logistic Regiment was frequently as other units of 3 Commando formed between between July, 1971, and Brigade. for your reservation January 1972, and is at present based at While performing a primarily logistic two locations at Coypool and Seaton role, all ranks in the regiment are fully barracks in Plymouth. commando-trained and can operate as The role of the regiment is to provide infantry when required. second-line medical, transport, ordnance TAMAR EXPRESS and workshop support to the United King- The regiment is almost fully represented dom/Netherlands Amphibious Force in at Navy Days with transport and work DOLPHIN HOUSE both temperate and Arctic conditons. shops squadrons providing a static vehicle This role has changed considerably since display, medical squadron, the river SUTTON MARINA the regiment was formed. It is now an display and ordnance squadron the M and indispensible operational unit which AW equipment display in the exhibition supports the force in war, deploying as hall. THE BARBICAN 36 17 EXHIBITION HALL HMS Hydrographic Cambridge School HMS Cambridge is the only Royal Naval THE Royal Naval Hydrographic School was live firing range in the United Kingdom, opened in Chatham in 1948 and has been at situated just to the east of Plymouth Sound. its present site in HMS Drake since 1965. Initial and career courses for Missile It is responsible for the training of all RN Branch ratings and Warfare officers are the Survey Recorders and Surveying Officers. establishment’s main tasks. Personnel are It was the first school in the world to be also trained in the maintenance of weapon awarded the International Federation of systems they will handle at sea. Surveyors/International Hydrographic A thriving establishment, with a gunnery Organisation Category A certificate and is HMnrOAYS history going back to the 1850s, HMS still only one of 11 throughout the world to Cambridge plays a major part in preparing maintain this status. men and equipment for the various oper As a consequence the school trains ational tasks of today’s Royal Navy. officers and ratings from Australia, New celebrate years of There are five gunnery systems at HMS Zealand, Malaysia, Pakistan as well as 25 Cambridge. Each is laid out as closely as member countries of the North Sea possible to those fitted in Royal Navy Hydrographic Commission, Norway, frigates and destroyers. Denmark and the Netherlands. Independent Television The 4.5 inch guns fire against air and Students at the hydrographic school surface targets in a firing area which spend much of their time afloat in for the South West extends 15 miles to seaward of Wembury Plymouth Sound in the school’s survey Point. In addition several close-range motor boats, gaining practical knowledge weapons and illumination launchers are of the survey equipment they will be using fitted and fires in the area. in the Survey Flotilla. And survey techniques are practised in the surrounding countryside and the advanced students conduct a practical survey on Dartmoor.
HM Coastguards COASTGUARDS are responsible for the co such as collisions at sea, possibly involving ordination of all civil maritime search and oil or chemical spillage, to swimmers in rescue missions in the large sea area around difficulties, small boat-owners in distress the UK. Many work in maritime rescue and cliff and shore rescues. centres strategically sited around the coast. In addition to the Regular Officers at the Regular officers are on duty 24 hours a rescue centres other full-time Coastguards, day, supported by a modern, nationwide known as Sector Officers, work within the communications network and have some community, patrolling their sectors, of the latest high-technology equipment liaising with other services as well as dedicated to search and rescue. training and supervising their auxiliaries. Regular officers and auxiliary coast These officers are the Coastguards most in guards are also on duty at other stations, the public eye, and you might see them U I f I r ^ T S W - TelevisTelevision South West. particularly in bad weather or at peak talking to yachtsmen or fishmen, co holiday times. ordinating cliff rescues or directing Television sets and ceuneras kindly supplied by Radio Rentals Ltd. Calls for help range from major disasters coastline searches. 35 18 FISHERMEN? Choose a CUSTOM BUILT KITCHEN HMS ARETHUSA “ Seamen extra ordinary!’’ and COOK IN STYLE ★ FREE ADVICE ^ FREE PLANNING ★ FREE QUOTATION ★ FREE FROM DO YOU KNOW? PRESSURE Her job is One fisherman is killed every 8 days in accidents at sea? Fishing is 4 times as dangerous as mining? From DIY to Installation to hunt Fishermen also man the mine-sweepers in times of all makes of appliances obtainable down and war and help to crew our lifeboats in peace time. (Due to an outstanding response the offer has They ARE seamen extra ordinary! — but who cares? been extended to 31st August, 1986) destroy ------THEIR MISSION CARES! ------high-sdeed when crisis and disaster come the RNMDSF cares • MEN LOST AT SEA submarines • WIDOWS & ORPHANS LEFT • ILLNESS OR ACCIDENT • RETIRED & INFIRMED For fisherman and their families the MISSION MAN is there to help them. CUSTOM A MAJOR conversion in 1976 trans ------WILL YOU HELP US IN OUR TASK?------KITCHEN formed HMS Arethusa from a general pur Contact us at. CENTRE pose frigate to a submarine hunter-killer— ROYAL NATIONAL MISSION Telephone: an Ikara Leander. TO DEEP SEA FISHERMEN Privham 340 ST. LEVAN ROAD OVERGANG ROAD, BRIXHAM, onxnam PLYMOUTH PL2 U P In 1985-86 she underwent a further w DEVON, TQ5 BAR. (08045) 59123 Tel: (0752) 567122 transformation, with the removal of the triple-barrelled mortars and the fitting of the latest towed-array sonar. This greatly increases the range at which Pass on Arethusa can detect submarines, making her a more effective submarine hunter- your Postcode killer. As a Batch 1 Leander, Arethusa has steamed thousands of miles, but is unique W rite it in that she is the only towed-array Ikara Leander in service. Quote it The present Arethusa is the eighth ship to bear the name for the Royal Navy. The seventh led the bombardment forces on Use it D-Day and 10 days later took King George VI to inspect the beachhead at Normandy. Postcode directories are held The name is taken from Greek mytho- logy. FACTS AND FIGURES at all main post offices. If you The present Arethusa was built at Cowes, Displacement: 2,900 tons don’t know yours, look it up Isle of Wight, and entered service in 1965. Length: 370 feet Leander class ships, the most powerful Beam: 41 feet there, or in your Thomson and seaworthy frigates the Navy has ever Armaments: Ikara missile system; Seacat Local Directory or ring had, are designed to hunt down and des anti-aircraft missile system; Bofors guns troy high-speed submarines in all weathers, Aircraft: Wasp helicopter Plymouth 668055 ext 228 but they can also engage ships, aircraft and Propulsion: Two controlled superheat use our FREEPOST Enquiry Quotation Service short targets. boilers and two sets of steam turbines Citycoach/Citybus. Freepost. Piymouth PL11BR Although ageing, Leanders remain popu driving twin screws. Telephone Plymouth (0752) 264816 Royal Mail lar within the Navy as the workhorses of Speed: 28 knots the Fleet. Complement: 12 officers and 220 men. 34 19 HMS CHIDDINGFOLD
The largest plastic ship in the world HMS CHIDDINGFOLD is the ninth of national and NATO exercises, the most the Hunt Class Mine Countermeasure recent of which was Exercise NORMINEX Vessels and the second ship to bear the off the north west coast of France. name. HMS Chiddingfold can detect mines with Ships in the Hunt Class are the largest in her sonar and dispose of them either with a the world to date to be built of glass re small unmanned submersible—the PAP—or inforced plastic. by charges placed by divers from the small The ship was launched in Southampton diving team on board. in October 1983, after only 27 months She is also capable of sweeping moored building time. She was commissioned a mines with her mechanical sweep and in year later. fluence mines with a towed acoustic gener Having completed trials and work-up in ator and magnetic loop. record time, HMS Chiddingfold was de ployed to the East Coast of the USA with the First Mine Countermeasure Squadron in FACTS AND FIGURES March last year. Displacement: 675 tons During her short deployment the ship Length: 60 metres visited the Azores, Bermuda, Norfolk in Beam: 10 metres Virginia, Washington and Charleston in Propulsion: 2 Deltic diesel engines for South Carolina. main propulsion; one Deltic diesel engine The ship returned to her base port of for slow speed drive and Bow thruster Rosyth on the Firth of Forth in July 1985- Speed: 14 knots Since then she has been involved in Complement: 6 officers, 38 ratings HMS Avenger, a Type-21 frigate, in the Frigate Refit Complex. 20 33 DOCKYARD EXHIBITION HMS AURORA
Proud bearer of a famous name BEFORE her arrival here at Plymouth name Aurora, perhaps the most famous was Navy Days 1986, HMS A u ro ra had taken the eighth, a light cruiser commissioned in part in winter exercises in northern Nor 1937 which distinguished herself in some way. of the heaviest fighting seen in the Mediter And in direct contrast she also enjoyed ranean against Italian forces. the sunnier climes of the Mediterranean. During this deployment she fulfilled Britain’s contribution to the Naval On-Call force based in the Mediterranean, working in close co-operation with our southern- FACTS AND FIGURES based allies. Displacement: 2,450 tons A major conversion in 1976 transformed Length: 370 feet Aurora from a general purpose frigate into Beam: 41 feet a submarine hunter-killer. Armaments: Ikara anti-submarina rocket Aurora completed a major refit at Devon- launched torpedoes; one triple-barrelled port Dockyard 14 months ago. After under anti-submarine mortar; two quadruple taking her work-up period at Portland, she Seacat launchers; two 40/60 Bofors joined the fleet as a fully operational front guns; one 20mm Oerlikon machine gun line unit in November 1985. Aircraft: Wasp helicopter The ship is one of the many very success Propulsion: Two reduction geared steam ful Leander class frigates now in service turbines producing a maximum 30,000 which for many years were the workhorses bhp of the fleet. Speed: 28 knots Of her many predecessors to bear the Complement: 12 officers and 220 men
• Devonport’s Frigate Refit Complex from the river, mXh HMS Ambuscade in the foreground.
ONE of the best-known landmarks on the chilled water, steam, compressed air and Plymouth skyline — the Dockyard’s various electricity supplies. There is a magnificent Frigate Refit Complex—will be pumped sewage system so that ships can open to the public during the three days. use their normal onboard facilities. You can get there on the free buses The modern craneage, ship-handling running reguarly from the main Navy Days facilities and layout have taken the area. complex a major step forward in warship The complex, which can handle a total refitting. of eight frigates, incorporates three dry The Dockyard is visited by naval authori docks under cover. No.2 basin with four ties from all over the w orld—to assess its berths and another tidal berth on the River potential for their own navies. Tamar. The Frigate Refit Complex is open to the All the berths, including the dry docks, public and you can see a display of Dock are served by a full range of dockside yard activities and a frigate under repair facilities built into the docks and basin and refit. For safety reasons it is not walls. possible for visitors to go on board ships in These include supplies of fresh, salt and refit. 32 21 ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT TRUST The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, If you’re dreaming o f a home in Devon which was instituted by Royal Charter or Cornwall call Plymouth 346341 in 1922, is administered and supported by the men of the Royal Navy and llflil Royal Marines for the benefit of serving and ex-serving men, their widows, orphans and dependants in need or distress. Suppliers to the licence The Trust maintains Pembroke House, its own residential home for trade. aged ex-naval men, situated at Wines and Spirits Gillingham In Kent. Applications for assistance should Ales and beers and be forwarded direct to: Grants Committee soft drinks. Local Secretary, Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, 2a Tipner Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire P02 8QR. Are pleased to be Tel: Portsmouth (0705) 660296 For full details o f our exciting range o f homes from ‘Super Single fully furnished apartments to suppliers to Plymouth 4 bedroom luxury detached houses with gara^ and central heating, visit the Wimpey Property Shop Head Office at Valley Road Plympton. O pen M on-Fri 9am to 5 pm, or call us on Plymouth 346341. Navy Days and wish General Secretary, Royal Naval Benevolent Trust, 1 High Street, £500 Special Naval Discount Available them continued success. Brompton, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5QZ Tel: Medway (0634) 42743
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Signal Training Centre THE display mounted by the Signal signals with speed and reliability in all Training Centre for Fleet Communications types of ship-to-ship, ship-to-air and ship- is designed to show the role of satellites in to-shore tactical and strategic today’s Royal Navy. communications. Today’s Fleet Communications has A radio postcard scheme is available The last of the Amazons for a small fee to enable visitors to worldwide coverage, 24-hours-a-day DEVONPORT-based HMS Avenger is The present ship added another honour send a special souvenir Navy Days availability and direct communications presently operating in home waters. to this list. The Falklands 1982. During the postcard to friends or relatives any with the Ministry of Defence no matter She recently visited the Cornish fishing conflict she was primarily tasked close in where in the United Kingdom, via your where a ship may be operating in the village of Fowey which is the ship’s affili shore among the islands carrying out naval world. local Royal Naval Reserve Centre. ated town. gunfire support, convoy escort duties and Also available on the stand, free-of- Fleet Communications, incorporating Over the past year she has spent time offensive patrolling. the use of satellites, employs micro charge, is the very popular Navy Days away from her home base on two major de Despite a number of near misses she telegram service which allows visitors computer-controlled message and data ployments. She spent six months in the suffered neither damage nor casualties. systems using the world’s most advanced to send radio telegram to any serving South Atlantic winter on Falkland Islands member on board a Royal Navy war technology in naval communications. patrol in 1985, and this spring she spent It provides transmission and reception of ship either at sea or in harbour. three months as West Indies Guardship. HMS Avenger is currently leader of the FACTS AND FIGURES Fourth Frigate Squadron known Displacement: 3,640 tons throughout the Royal Navy as the 21 Club. Length: 380 feet Sailors’ Rest She was the last Amazon class frigate to Beam: 40 feet THE first of the Royal Sailors’ Rests was men on board HMS Dryad, the training ship be built for the Navy, being launched in Armaments: 4.5 inch automatic gun; opened in Plymouth 109 years ago. The anchored in the Hamoze. 1975 and completed in 1978. Exocet missiles; 20mm guns; Seacat nicknames for the rests remain today— During her eight years in service she has missiles; torpedoes Aggies or Aggie Westons, after Miss Agnes A rest was opened at Portsmouth in 1881 been to most parts of the world and Aircraft: Lynx helicopter Weston, later Dame Agnes Weston, who and as money became available others were steamed 250,000 miles. Propulsion: Two Rolls Royce Olympus gas opened that first centre. opened in naval areas to meet the needs. Avenger is the seventh ship to bear the turbines, two Rolls Royce Tyne gas The work began in Plymouth as a result There are rests—now day centres—at St name. Her predecessor’s battle honours in turbines of Miss Weston’s correspondence with the Budeaux, Portland, Faslane, Rosyth, clude Martinique 1794, North Africa and Speed: Excess of 30 knots men on HMS Crocodile and requests from llchester, Portsmouth and Gosport. The Arctic 1942. Complement: 15 officers, 170 ratings 30 23 ^ EXHIBITION HALL . 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a fortnight’s exercise or course, for which Royal Naval they receive full Naval pay and wear the Reserve same uniform as their regular counterparts. THE Royal Naval Reserve has a proud The MoD Police tradition dating back to 1859. It has grown over the years until by the end of World THE MoD Police are on duty 24 hours a War Two nearly 40,000officers served in day. Their responsibility covers seven MoD the Naval Reserve. establishments in Devon and Cornwall. Today’s Reservist cashes cheques, writes Specialist units include: police launches prescriptions, services cars, teaches in Plymouth Sound and the River Tamar children or works with you in an office or a including the Devonport Dockyard areas, factory. highly trained, prize-winning police dogs, Some volunteer because they love the and motor cycles. sea. Others join for patriotic reasons or The small but highly efficient CID team because they wish to share-their leisure has had a number of spectacular successes hours with people of their own age sharing and prosecutions in recent years. the same interests—the sea—all bonded One of the more pleasant aspects of together by the Royal Naval Reserve. policing the Naval Base is the schools They train twice a week after passing an liaison visits, which involves meeting large entrance examination. They also undertake numbers of local school children. 24 29 EXHIBITION HALL HMS HECLA
At home among icepacks and in the tropics THE name ship of a class of Ocean ing on the exposed areas of our continental Survey Ships, HMS Hecla is one of three shelf beyond the north-west of Scotland, still in service. while a separate team has been detached Built in Scotland in 1965, she is equipped from the ship undertaking a detailed survey to carry out hydrographic, oceanographic of the Firth of Clyde. and geophysical surveying worldwide, Two nine metre motor boats are carried having a strengthened bow for operating in for use in inshore waters, and a Wasp heli ice and air-conditioning for duty in the copter can also be embarked. tropics. Her tasks include conventional observ ations of the depth of water and the nature of the seabed and coastline, by which FACTS AND FIGURES Royal Naval Engineering College means the Admiralty’s worldwide charts Displacement: 2,630 tons are kept up to date. Also, research is done Length: 260 feet RNEC Manadon is responsible for the Eater in his career, he could be working into the earth’s gravity and magnetic field. Beam: 49 feet ^ teehnieal training of the Royal Navy’s on new designs in the latest technology Hecla spends much of her time abroad. Aircraft: Wasp helicopter can be embarked engineer officers. alongside highly-qualified civilian Last winter saw her in West Africa and Propulsion: single screw, with bowthruster Nuclear submarines, aircraft and engineers, providing the vital contribution South America. She also saw service in the Diesel-electric computer-controlled missile systems of of the practical naval officer who knows at Falklands as a hospital ship in 1982. Speed: 14 knots high complexity all come within the scope first-hand the stress and difficulties under Recently, however, she has been work- Complement: 115 of naval engineering. It is a dynamic which equipment has to operate. technology in which there are always new As an Engineer Officer in a Navy in developments and teehnic|ues to master. which small ships increasingly predomi nate he has a breadth of responsibility The Engineer Officer in the Royal navy is which his civilian counterparts would be the man in charge of the weapons systems unlikely to achieve—at least until later in or propulsion machinery in a ship or their careers. submarine, or of an aircraft and its weapon Narrow specialisation in the Royal Navy systems. is a thing of the past and the Engineer While still in his middle twenties, he Officer finds himself from time to time could be responsible for many millions of making decisions in fields that extend the pounds worth of modern equipment and boundaries of engineering. This brings a for the well-being—and even the lives—of challenge and variety to the work of the the men who operate and maintain it. Engineer Officers which they value highh .
King George’s Fund^ THE King Cieorge’s Eund for Sailors is the to the best and most effective use and central fund for all charities that care for overlapping is reduced to a minimum. seafarers in need and their families. Some of the charities are entirely While unable to help individuals directly dependent on grants from the KCiES to it has unrivalled knowledge of the maintain an adec|uate le\ el of support for changing needs of more than 120 voluntary their seafaring beneficiaries. societies which devote themselves to this During 1985, KC'iFS grants totalled task. A 1,333,"^30, raising the total distributed With this knowledge, the fund is able to since the fund’s foundation in to ensure that every penny subscribed is put more than A19 million. 28 25 HM NAVAL BASE DEVONPORT
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