DS T H E T R A D E 261 9 JOURNAL Freedom of the City of Derby to RN Submarine Service Granted 28 April 2002 Derbyshire Submariners Newsletter Issue Number 261 June 2021 EDITORIAL PAGE/S CONTENT 01 CONTENT & EDITORIAL I appreciate this NL has come around quick with two in May. But it did clear the ‘deck’ of all the 02 WELFARE FLEECEWAR prepared stuff I had accumulated over lock-down! 03/04 POLITICALLY INCORRECT PAGES To date no ‘Drip Chits’, not even from Jim. Keep 05 JEFF BACON © TWO TIFFS your feedback coming and it’s that which determines what goes in your DS Members 06 IMPORTANT DS PROPOSAL RE SUBS Newsletter. 07 KRI NANGGALA 402 UPDATE Well, the Good news is another Astute is due to 08 A REPORTERS DEATH ON HMS URGE Commission at Barrow. Astute class submarine 09 RN RULING THE WAVES? HMS Anson has been in the water for a number of weeks and is now in the final stages of construction 10-11 1 OF OUR SUBMARINES IS MISSING and commissioning, say the Royal Navy. The RN 12-13 HMS THETIS SINKING & SALVAGE say that the final stages of the boat’s completion 14-15 MARITIME STRATEGY & SECURITY were complicated by the pandemic, which placed particular challenges and demands on the complex 16 WORLD SUBMARINE NEWS operation to lower the hunter-killer into the water. 17 NEWSLETTER FEEDBACK The Edinburgh Military Tattoo this Aug has been 18 MY DAD BY PETER JOHNSON cancelled for the second year running & the Stanley 19 2004 EUROPEAN NAVY ENSIGN! Wellington Bomber Annual Commemoration and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BOBMF) Flypast has also 20 MAYFLOWER, MAGS & FEEDBACK been sadly been cancelled but re-booked for 2022. 21 COLD WAR CENTRE SITREP HMS Queen Elizabeth The RN’s Flagship has 22 LORD OBJECTS TO MORE TRIDENTS sailed into its home base of Portsmouth for an 23 S/M D1, SPEARFISH & POLICE SUB unscheduled stop 19/5 ahead of its first operational deployment to the Far East. The £3 billion aircraft 24 RNSM NEWS DS ROUNDUP carrier has just taken part in a major exercise off the coast of Scotland and had intended to carry out its final deployment preparations while in the Solent along with the other ships of the Carrier Strike Group (CSG). But the poor weather forecast for the coming days including heavy winds has caused the 65,000-tonne warship to return to Portsmouth Naval Base while some of the other DS BIRTHDAYS 2021 CSG ships have headed to Devonport. 11 June Terry Hall Since When did Roughers prevent the RN from Sailing? Information & Comments Welcome Please? 25 June Kevin Lawson 22 July Michael Roberts COVID 2019. Sadly, still a very uncertain time and 23 July Max Horton QGM Caution appears the main watchword for most. 26 July Ian Worrall Unlike, the Govt DS has no firm date of 21 June regardless as a Lunch Club without facilities of a A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH fully open pub and more importantly Member’s who feel it is safe to venture out. The Best Time to Join Derbyshire Terry Hall Submariners was 20 years ago. The Trade Journal Newsletter Editor The Second Best time is Now. Hon. Sec/Treasurer, Derbyshire Submariners’ [email protected] 1 WELFARE MATTERS Mental Health Awareness Week Courtesy of National RNA Welfare Section Veterans UK. Find out You may have seen that this week is National about your Armed Mental Health Awareness Week, a campaign we Forces Pension or are getting behind because we believe our mental make a compensation health deserves just as much care and attention as claim for any injuries or our physical health. The RNA was formed in the bereavements. Veterans UK is part of the early 1950’s in the wake of the WWII, when Ministry of Defence (MoD) and has its own thousands of men were being demobbed and trying dedicated helpline. to adjust to life back on ‘civvy’ street. It was those https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ve men who came together to share a pint/tot with their terans-uk oppos, in a time when they needed to talk about shared stories/horrors, or to just be around people Veterans Gateway who really understood the last few years of their life. quickly and easily It was set up as a lifeline, essentially to ease the find the resources stresses on ‘mental health’ that life in the Navy and you need by using during wartime had inflicted on them. Camaraderie Veterans Gateway, from healthcare and housing and community were, and continue to be, crucial advice, to financial information and support with healers during stormy weather. The Assn is now personal relationships. open to those serving, those now demobbed and the families of those with loved ones still serving or https://www.veteransgateway.org.uk/ having served the RN. The mental health repercussions of serving in the Navy cannot be Combat Stress. Access mental health support to overlooked and can affect everyone with a personal deal with issues like link to the service. Our Assn exists to make those Post Traumatic challenges more surmountable, through the support Stress Disorder of our tightknit community of individuals who share (PTSD), anxiety and a unique part of their life. Here are a few links for depression. https://combatstress.org.uk/ you to familiarise yourself with, which may help you, an oppo or a family member in times of need… Cobseo, The The Samaritans Did you know you can call Confederation of Samaritan’s anytime for emotional support? Service Charities. Their telephone number is 116 123 Gain access to organisations Shout. A free, confidential, 24/7 texting service for offering services that meet your specific needs support during an emotional crisis: You can text Shout to 85258 and have your voice heard by Government Committees and groups. Relate Relationship support for everyone Telephone Contact 0333 257 4042 SSAFA. Soldiers, Sailors, Air Rethink Advice and information about different Forces Association is a UK charity mental health challenges that provides lifelong support to Telephone 0121 522 7007 serving men and women and veterans from the British Armed ACTION FRAUD. This is the UK’s national reporting Forces and their families or dependents. centre for fraud. You should report all types of fraud https://www.ssafa.org.uk/ to Action Fraud whether or not you choose to report it to another agency such as Trading Standards or TRBL. The Royal British Legion your bank as well. It’s quickest to report fraud to https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/ Action Fraud online using the online reporting tool, 0333 258 5463. The Royal but you can also report by phone on 0300 123 2040 British Legion, sometimes called Monday to Friday, 8am to 8pm. If you can’t hear or the British Legion, is a British speak on the phone, you can use Relay UK with an charity providing financial, social and emotional app or a textphone support to members and veterans of the British on 18001 then 0300 123 2050. Action Fraud collates Armed Forces, their families and dependants. the reports and will give you a crime reference number, which can be helpful if you need to tell your DS Members Please Note any member not on bank you’ve been a victim of fraud. It passes details the Internet and thus access the ‘Links’ to all the of all fraud reports received to the National Fraud above or as DS Chair of the Welfare Team you Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). You can forward a are always able to contact myself or the suspicious text message from your phone to Action Chairman on any Subject matter. Terry Hall Fraud free of charge by sending it to 7726. 2 UNPOLITICALLY CORRECT PAGES Medicals for Those Approaching 80! I recently Derbyshire Girls are Best Three chaps were picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits sitting together in a pub (Obviously pre-lockdown) and exhaustive tests, he said I was doing ‘fairly bragging about how they had given their new wives well’ for my age. A little concerned about the duties to perform. Harry, had married a woman comment, I couldn’t resist asking him, ‘Do you from America and bragged that he had told his new think I’ll live to be 80?’ He asked, ‘Do you smoke wife to do the dishes, and all the cleaning in the tobacco, drink beer or wine?’ ‘Oh no,’ I replied. house. He said it took a couple of days but on the ‘I’m not doing drugs, either!’ Then he asked, ‘Do third day he came home to a clean house and all you eat rib-eye steaks and barbecued ribs?’ I the dishes were washed and put away. Edward had said, ‘No, my former doctor said that all red meat married a woman from Oxford, and bragged that he is very unhealthy!’ ‘Do you spend a lot of time in had given his new wife orders to do all the cleaning, the sun, like playing golf, sailing, hiking or the dishes and the cooking. He told them the first cycling?’ ‘No, I don’t,’ I said. He asked, ‘Do you day he didn't see any results, but the next day it was gamble, drive fast cars or have a lot of sex?’ ‘No?’ better and by the third day his house was clean, the I said. ‘I don’t do any of those things.’ He looked dishes done and there was a huge meal on the at me and said, ‘Then, why do you give a damn!’ table.