DS DERBYSHIRE 211 Submariners Derbyshire Submariners Newsletter Issue Number 211 May 2017 Freedom of the City of Derby to RN Submarine Service Granted 28 April 2002 Page/s Subject EDITORIAL 01 CONTENT & EDITORIAL We Will Remember Them 02 DRIVING & ROAD LAW CHANGES ERA 1 John Brooks D/269639 03/04 POLITICALLY UNCORRECT PAGES Died: 16 April 1917 - Submarine C16 05 JEFF BACON © TWO TIFFS Derby Cemetery Register 53513 (C) 06 UK SUBMARINE RELATED NEWS Log of C16 On exercises off Harwich at periscope 07 DS LUNCH CLUB LITTLE EATON depth C16 collided with the destroyer HMS Melampus. Sank in 60’ of water. 1st Lt. drowned in 08 SA NEWS & OTHER NEWS attempt to escape to warn of disaster. Crew flooded 09 L24 SUNK WITH ALL HANDS up Submarine but escape through fore hatch thwarted by jammed hatch, all perished. 10 FAR EAST SUBMARINE NEWS 11 DS AGM, PRESIDENT & CHAIRMAN I apologise as this was meant to be 12 DS AGM, SEC, EXAMINERS, OTHERS in the April Edition of DD but it 13 NL FEEDBACK - AMBUSH NEWS inadvertently slipped through the Editorial net. I did attend the 14 NMA UPDATE & LATEST NEWS Graveside with Submariners 15 D&D ExSVC ASSN MEETING 10/4/17 Standard on Easter Sunday (16/4) and carried out a Salute, laying a 16 WORLD SUBMARINE NEWS Submariners Poppy Cross to mark 17 ROYAL MARINES RESTRUCTURING the 100th Anniversary of ERA1 18 RUSSIA SUBMARINE NEWS John Brooks loss on C16. DS has already decided and arranged 19 JULIAN OSBORNE ROYAL NAVY an official Wreath Laying to take 20 CENTENARY LOSS OF C16 MARKED place on 11/11 with the Mayor of Derby in attendance at our Annual Homage to our two WWI Submariner 21 MAY LUNCH CLUB. MAY SUM DERBY Graves at Nottingham Road Cemetery. See Pg 20. 22 DS 2017 DIARY & LONGCAST Sad to see Cdr Daveney’s two years are up as CO of HMS/M Ambush but we welcome the new CO Ambush of our affiliated boat, Cdr Sam Owen RN who took over late April, and we look forward to his first visit to their adopted City. In the meantime, many wanted to go up to the Faslane Affiliates day, but there were immense problems as only two places, thus I dropped out of the DS BIRTHDAYS 2016 names out of the hat vote, having gone last time for the 02 May Clifford Williamson Commissioning. Unfortunately, due to work, health, transport problems and carers required this meant no one 06 June Albert Birchnall could go. We are looking at two places and a carer at 11 June Terry Hall present, but nothing confirmed at the time of writing. 25 June Kevin Lawson The old £5 Note ceases to be legal tender on 5 May so A POSITIVE THOUGHT FOR THE MONTH ensure you empty your mattress before then! Page 7. There Are only Terry Hall Two Types of Vessels; Derbyshire Deeps Newsletter Editor SUBMARINES & TARGETS Hon. Sec/Treasurer, Derbyshire Submariners’ [email protected] 1 DRIVING LAW CHANGES However, the presence of an aggravating factor could see a Band C speeding fine rise to as much as 175%. The UK’S New Speeding Fines Explained Aggravating factors include things like being a persistent Carlton Boyce Saga Magazine 09 March 2017) offender or speeding while towing a trailer or a caravan. As explained in DD last month Fines for the most serious Magistrates can also sentence outside of the guidelines if speeding offences are set to rise in order to better reflect they feel that the interests of justice would be best served the gravity with which the courts view them. Currently the by doing so. Consultation last year showed that many minimum penalty you can expect to receive for speeding magistrates and criminal justice professionals felt the is a £100 fine and 3 penalty points added to your licence, current sentencing guidelines ‘did not properly take into but from 24 April, 2017, magistrates in England and account the increase in potential harm that can result as Wales are being directed to apply a Band C speeding fine speed above the speed limit increases’. And remember, for the most serious offenders. This means if you are the imposition of a speeding fine is just one weapon in the caught speeding, a Band C speeding fine means that magistrates’ arsenal. They can still issue higher fines, anyone speeding at 51mph or above in a 30mph limit for impose a driving ban, or sentence you to a prison example, faces a fine equivalent to 150% of their weekly sentence. income, and 6 penalty points on their driving licence, or disqualification from driving for up to 56 days. If you’re March 2017 update Phone Use in a Car. The new rules disqualified for 56 days or more you must apply for a new regarding using a mobile phone whilst driving came in on licence before you're able to start driving again. For March 1, 2017 - and the fine now is indeed £200 and six anyone earning £25,000 a year, a speeding fine penalty points. The changes mean anyone caught using equivalent to 150% of their weekly income means their phone twice would face a minimum six-month driving handing over a minimum of £720, no small amount. You ban under the ‘totting up’ procedure. They would also be might receive a Band B speeding fine for doing between summoned to appear in court where they could be fined 41-50mph, in which case you'd face a fine equivalent to up to £1,000. 100% of your weekly income (£480), and 4 penalty Booster Seats. As predicted, manufacturers can now points on your driving licence, or disqualification from only make booster seats designed for children who weigh driving for up to 28 days. A Band A speeding fine would more than 22kg, but if you have an existing booster seat be appropriate if you are caught speeding between 31-40 you will not be expected to change. However, do make in a 30mph zone, and you can expect to receive a fine sure that the seat you're using has the correct equivalent to 50% of your weekly income (£240), and 3 requirements in terms of your child's height, age and penalty points on your driving licence. By way of weight. However, the new regulations will only apply to comparison, the average speeding fine handed out in new products entering the market and won’t be applied 2015 was just £188. retrospectively to products already in circulation and Disqualification from driving vs penalty points If you being used by parents, grandparents and carers. get caught driving at a speed that will land you with a Driving over 70 Drivers of 70 and above, many of whom Band B or C speeding fine, the magistrates may believe have decades of accident-free motoring behind them, are your speeding is too serious for penalty points. In this generally safe drivers. Indeed, a policy paper published case, you may be disqualified from driving for a period of by ROSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention Of time instead of being given penalty points. You might Accidents) in 2015 reported that people still holding a wonder if you're better off being disqualified from driving driving licence at 70 are no more likely to be the cause of for a short time, rather than taking the 6 penalty points on an accident than any other age group. However, as you your license, especially if you've already racked up a get older, there are a few rules that you need to be aware handful of points with previous motoring offences. In of when driving, not least of which is making sure to some instances you'd be right, especially if the addition renew your driving licence at 70, as otherwise it will of 6 penalty points would take you over the 12 point limit, expire. Many drivers believe that their driving licence is as this would attract a six month driving ban rather than for life, but that is not the case. Even Younger Drivers up to 56 days. However, magistrates are aware of this need to renew their driving licence every 10 years to potential 'loophole', so odds are that they would be get the photo on their photocard licence updated. reluctant to ban you for a short time in lieu of penalty Everyone has to renew their driving licence, and will points, especially if you have been consistently driving at receive a photocard licence instead of a paper licence, if dangerously high speeds. If this is the case, perhaps you they haven’t had one before when they turn 70, even if should be asking yourself exactly why it's so important for their details haven’t changed. As well as renewing your you to get where you're going so quickly, and consider driving licence, there are a few things the law says you rethinking your attitude to the laws that are, essentially, must do if you intend to continue driving after 70, as well there for everyone's safety? as some things you might like to consider doing in order Are the new speeding fines are unlimited? No. The to ensure your safety and that of your fellow drivers. You speeding fine is to be capped at £2,500 for those caught must renew your driving licence when you reach 70 and speeding on the motorway, and £1,000 everywhere else. then do so every three years thereafter. If you let your This means that anyone earning more than about driving licence expire without applying for a new one, you £50,000 a year probably won’t be asked to pay any more won’t legally be allowed to drive, a side effect of which is than this, a situation that leaves poorer drivers invalidating your car insurance, so make sure that you disproportionately disadvantaged.